July 2011
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May 2011
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on Helmut Newton.
‘Although his oeuvre is rife with luridly splayed legs and buoyant naked breasts, his subjects are not merely objectified fodder for the male gaze, but women in control of their own sensuality. His camera refracts the complexity of a post-sexual revolution identity, toying with ideas of power and perversion, dominance, gender roles and androgyny. Towing the line between vulgar schmaltz and...
Collier Schorr. 'Both Sides Now'.
Finding her place in the New York art world, she’d learnt early on that “there was no way
to photograph a woman that wasn’t compromising on some level;” men, on the other
hand, were “open season”, and one could do with them what you wanted…. Fashion
work has also enabled Schorr to put to rest the idea that she only photographs boys,
and that is another...
November 2010
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