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Crouching Pervert, Hidden Meisel
Author: Simon Sellars • Nov 18th, 2008 •Category: Ballardosphere, Italy, Steven Meisel, censorship, death of affect, fashion, photography, sexual politics
ABOVE: Photo by Steven Meisel.
ABOVE: Photo by Kohei Yoshiyuki.
Via Susannah Breslin (Boing Boing guest blogger), we learn that Ballardian favourite Steven Meisel is back with ‘a layout that was (supposedly) too hot to run in Vogue Italy, so we get to look at them on the internets. NSFW, unless you work in an orgy pit’. Writes Susannah, the shots were ‘inspired by … old school Kodak infrared flashbulb illuminated snaps of Japanese sexhibitionists and their peeping toms in parks that were shot by Kohei Yoshiyuki in the early ’70s’. Evidently, Meisel is updating Yoshiyuki for a dogging generation.
But what’s the deal with NY Mag trading on the perv value of Meisel’s rejection by Vogue, only to reproduce the pictures at such a small size?
In any case, it’s not as NSFW as this.
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