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Something Not Quite Comfortable About This.
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Completely bad taste no matter what the colour, after all we have all seen much worse in the name of Art etc, so why did this carry so much outrage?
http:// i.daily mail.co .uk/i/p ix/2014 /01/21/ article -254306 9-1AD6C 50E0000 0578-87 7_634x8 57.jpg
/// FashionBombDaily.com editor Claire Sulmers was among the first to express her disbelief, claiming the photo's message was startlingly clear: 'White dominance and superiority, articulated in a seemingly serene yet overtly degrading way.' ///
/// She wrote on her blog that racism remained rampant in the art and fashion worlds and this needed to stop.
/// 'The art and fashion industries are the few bastions of society where blatant racism and ignorance are given the greenlight in the name of creativity,' Sulmers complained. ///
http:// www.dai lymail. co.uk/n ews/art icle-25 43069/A bramovi chs-gir lfriend -fire-p icture- posing- chair-h alf-nak ed-blac k-woman -appear s-Russi an-fash ion-blo g-MLK-d ay.html
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/// FashionBombDaily.com editor Claire Sulmers was among the first to express her disbelief, claiming the photo's message was startlingly clear: 'White dominance and superiority, articulated in a seemingly serene yet overtly degrading way.' ///
/// She wrote on her blog that racism remained rampant in the art and fashion worlds and this needed to stop.
/// 'The art and fashion industries are the few bastions of society where blatant racism and ignorance are given the greenlight in the name of creativity,' Sulmers complained. ///
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"/// The dummy is laying on her back with her knees bent and a cushion, which Zhukova is sitting on, ///
I feel sure that the model would take exception at being called a 'DUMMY'"
Then the DM deserve to be castigated :) To be clear, not my words, but a cut and paste from the DM article.
And of course I assume that when they use the word dummy, they are referring to the mannequin on the floor, rather than the model sitting in the chair :)
"/// The dummy is laying on her back with her knees bent and a cushion, which Zhukova is sitting on, ///
I feel sure that the model would take exception at being called a 'DUMMY'"
Then the DM deserve to be castigated :) To be clear, not my words, but a cut and paste from the DM article.
And of course I assume that when they use the word dummy, they are referring to the mannequin on the floor, rather than the model sitting in the chair :)
The black "model" forming the base of the chair is quite clearly described in the article as a mannequin.
The item itself, the "chair" is just tasteless. The photo as it stands could be interpreted as being racist I suppose, but if it was a black model sitting on the chair then it would not be racist then - so it is that particular photo that the racism discussion should centre on, rather than the "chair".
As to whether there would be an outcry were the situation reversed - I think there might be; perhaps not as loud, but as I recall there was a fairly lively discussion over the black guy draping naked white women around his neck and calling the subsequent photos "art" ;)
The item itself, the "chair" is just tasteless. The photo as it stands could be interpreted as being racist I suppose, but if it was a black model sitting on the chair then it would not be racist then - so it is that particular photo that the racism discussion should centre on, rather than the "chair".
As to whether there would be an outcry were the situation reversed - I think there might be; perhaps not as loud, but as I recall there was a fairly lively discussion over the black guy draping naked white women around his neck and calling the subsequent photos "art" ;)