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Italian Vogue’s oil-spill themed photo shoot: thought-provoking or tasteless?
The Shine ^
| 8/7/10
| Joanna Douglas, Shine Staff
Posted on 08/07/2010 4:01:52 AM PDT by central_va
A new 24-page fashion spread in the September issue of Italian Vogue features model Kristen McMenamy wearing oil-soaked black feathered outfits, withering away on a beach. Famed photographer Steven Meisel shot the controversial Gulf disaster-inspired images of McMenamy caught in nets, spitting up oil, and flopping like a dying seal on rocks. But while the images are powerful and striking, we're left wondering whether they were done in good taste.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: italianvogue; oilspill
To: central_va
The corpse is grossing me out. I vote tasteless.
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:06:02 AM PDT
by
linn37
( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: central_va
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:11:49 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Steampunk Baby and the Quest for Bill's iPod - now on DVD!)
To: linn37
same here tasteless, but I cannot find a place to vote
To: central_va
Since the REAL oil spill disappointed liberals in not providing enough emotional pictures to use as propoganda against capitalism, they now have to resort to staged images.
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:22:29 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: Erik Latranyi
Since the REAL oil spill disappointed liberals in not providing enough emotional pictures to use as propoganda against capitalism, they now have to resort to staged images. Dead oil covered penguins don't sell I guess.
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posted on
08/07/2010 4:24:12 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: Erik Latranyi
The Michigan democrats are all running on “Holding those guilty, accountable” over the Kalamazoo river spill.
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posted on
08/07/2010 5:07:21 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: central_va
Who has the picture of Captain Picard in a facepalm? This is facepalm stupid.
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posted on
08/07/2010 5:36:39 AM PDT
by
RepRivFarm
("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell)
To: Erik Latranyi
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posted on
08/07/2010 5:44:02 AM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
( VIVA la SB 1070!)
To: central_va
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posted on
08/07/2010 5:45:12 AM PDT
by
Homer1
To: central_va
How is this a fashion spread? Can you even see any of the fashions they’re modeling? It’s an editorial spread, maybe, but not a fashion spread.
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posted on
08/07/2010 5:46:12 AM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
( VIVA la SB 1070!)
To: central_va
Why would anyone buy this issue of Vogue? It is stupid.
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posted on
08/07/2010 5:47:48 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: central_va
VOGUE found Natalee Holloway?
To: central_va
Not even a Italian Stallion would find anything bella in that loser of a “spread”.
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posted on
08/07/2010 7:11:13 AM PDT
by
jdsteel
(CONGRESS: Take it again in twenty ten.)
To: central_va
Were any petroleum or petroleum-derived products used to make the film? The camera? Any of the clothes? Any hair products the model used? Any cars that transported them to the shoot? If so, I call hypocrisy!
To: central_va
Liberals are frozen at the Junior High level, it is very difficult to relate to their thinking or what they find “cool”.
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posted on
08/07/2010 8:33:18 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(Mitt: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
To: central_va
Ugly pictures. They wasted an issue for that.
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posted on
08/08/2010 8:30:59 PM PDT
by
Cedar
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