Steven Meisel is a photographer who has always loved the polemic. This time he went too far, doesn't he? His photographic report for Vogue Italy (September issue) named "Make love, not war" shows models in expensive clothes having "fun" with soldiers. This report has opened the controversy one more time: Even if he is trying to claim how caotic the US army is, where is the frontier for an artist? Is he allowed to pass that border? to make ironic photographs of caotic situations where people die? In my opinion, Meisel is a genius, I have always loved his pics, but for first time in my whole life, I have felt bad watching his report, I feel he is playing with something too serious this time.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Welcome to the army
Steven Meisel is a photographer who has always loved the polemic. This time he went too far, doesn't he? His photographic report for Vogue Italy (September issue) named "Make love, not war" shows models in expensive clothes having "fun" with soldiers. This report has opened the controversy one more time: Even if he is trying to claim how caotic the US army is, where is the frontier for an artist? Is he allowed to pass that border? to make ironic photographs of caotic situations where people die? In my opinion, Meisel is a genius, I have always loved his pics, but for first time in my whole life, I have felt bad watching his report, I feel he is playing with something too serious this time.
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