We’ve come a long way since Helmut Newton gave us his impossibly perfect glamazons.
By any stretch, Helmut Newton’s iconic 1975 shot of fashion model Elsa Perretti is gobsmackingly gorgeous. Perretti is rendered epically beautiful, a perfectly perfect ideal woman of her time, all slenderness and leggy legs, milky-pale decollete and waist – tres chic! – so slim a man could circle it with his hands.
“Martine is an incredibly strong, fearless trans woman of Mayan heritage who brings all these clues to her culture and life into work that she positions in the fashion industry,” explains Elias Redstone, creative director of PHOTO 2022, which will exhibit both photographers in the massive city-wide event.
In fact Sherman’s power as an artist rocketed around the time society was simultaneously, and somewhat confusingly, in a flap about a second wave of feminism and swooning over “strong, powerful” women such as Helmut’s. Annie Wang, No.2 Pressing the camera shutter together , 2002, from the series The Mother as a Creator, 2001—ongoing.Wang’s raw photographic record of her own and her son’s self-contained, independent identities as their relationship develops, is also her powerful tilt at pitching her art as an agent of change. “Motherhood is no longer synonymous with self-sacrifice,” she says. “It can be flipped into a positive experience that makes men appreciate and participate.
That visibility arrived with eruptions of shared truths across social media, from stretch marks to cracked nipples, post-natal depression to rough days with screaming kids, a social revolution in its own right. “True depictions of this difficult, messy thing can be so empowering,” Sorgini says.
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