This is possibly one of the most striking yet beautiful pieces of photography I have come across with my research into Androgyny once again, his physique and cheek bones stand out a mile away for me and I think that that is what is so beautiful about him in my eyes. He lacks all curves and femininity that a woman possesses yet just to look at it, he has such a delicate frame that it does look beautiful in the same kind of way you would call a woman beautiful. I wish I could find the photographer so I could encourage you all to explore more of their work, but I just can't! I do know however the photograph was published in I think I.D or Dazed and Confused magazine! I've gone into basing my final designs this year on Androgyny after starting on Anorexia at the beginning of the brief ironically, when I saw this image I thought it was the perfect example of the two combined. Just look at the bone structure of his torso, his ribs are almost as defined as the pleats in the fabric! I'm not suggesting for one minute Anorexia is beautiful, because it isn't, I suffered from Anorexia for a large part of my teen years and it's brain washing, but when I look back at the heart breaking photographs my mother has I never realised how deformed and frightening my body had become. The wonderful thing about this image though is that it is just photograph, Anorexia is a reality I wouldn't wish on anyone, this picture to me just felt like the perfect example of the two linked together in one person. (Hopefully he is just naturally thin though) Anyway...
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