Lit eerily by the screen of her television, Zora Star’s ‘Shooting’ explores our desensitisation to and alienation from so much of current political affairs, her own status as model subtly referenced and parodied in this Political Fashion submission.
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It is so true that we just collapse in front of our screens ,the never ending scenes of unimaginable barbarity and inhuman cruelty seeming to just add to a sense of torpor and lethargy. I feel this is why Fashion has to become political ,all those fashion photographers must see the same TV we all do. It must make them feel a sense of futility to have to go back into work the next day and pretend to be excited about a fashion story whose subject is banal beyond belief. They are intelligent and sensitive people ,otherwise we wouldn't like their work,so they must be affected by world events.Why dont we see it in their work? They are supposed to reflect our society.
By la at 19:36 Thu 27 Mar 2008 | reply to this >
yep really fucks me off- all those people with a real chance to say something and they say ...NOTHING ! Doesn't anybody else feel let down by the vacant fashion imagery that fills our magazines???!
By --1cal1-- at 20:08 Thu 27 Mar 2008 | reply to this >
Interesting questions ! .... and yet I dare to suggest that there is an odour hanging in the air of ...... 'self -imposed- censorship ' ... and I wonder WHY ?
By Galileo's Universe at 20:32 Thu 27 Mar 2008 | reply to this >
Ironically against all the best intentions ... desensitization ..... is the 'perfect' gateway to escape , at least emotionally, from the insane and night mare like world we are witnessing around the clock ... how perfectly portrait here in 'Shooting' .... just wanting to fall sleep , comfortably and the ever comforting feeling of being save while watching a bloody horror movie that never seems to end ...the difference being we are not talking about a movie ! .... déjà vu over and over again .....
This is one more ...beyond... Political Fashion !
By Galileo's Universe at 10:53 Thu 27 Mar 2008 | reply to this >