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Response to Annie Liebovitz

from tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com)
pasty, veiny, ugly nudes

Looks like beautiful woman bodies to me, the light/color palette seems to be quite deliberate and consistent. Sort of anti-glamour colors (odd you mention 679, Robert, that's what they look like to me). I like the presence of veins and wrinkles (most women I know have 'em). There is a deliberate effort not to glamourize these bodies. I understand her reference to "classic" poses and inspiration (in the associated, somewhat overblown text).

Two things I don't understand, the unclassical compositions relative to the frames, it's like she deliberately posed these women classically and then fragmented the mathematics of the form, ignoring classic compositional considerations (I think she's messin' with us). And 2) the choice of background. Again seeming to disrupt the geometry of the form, and occasional geometric devices seemingly irrelevant to the framing of the selected remnants (of that form). I like the color and textures of the backgrounds. And I find the lighting and tonal range of the models intriguing. They are not sexy images (mostly due to the cold, subdued palette), but more epic and romantic, as if lifted from some morality fable. Allegorical for some heroic condition that seems sad, powerful and transient.

I found them at the pirelli.com website after some serious navigational sleuthing... t

(posted 8770 days ago)

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