Twitchell wrote:
> http://jezebel.com/5466747/the-irresistible-allure-of-unretouched-madonna-photos
>
> And who keeps leaking the "before" shots of Madonna photo shoots?
>
> The new leaks from last year's Louis Vuitton campaign are the latest in a
> subgenre of leaked photos of her before the digital interventions that make any
> woman — but especially one over 50 — magazine-ready. Why her more than anyone
> else?
>
> The Vuitton campaign was shot by Steven Meisel, breaking a streak of leaked
> Madonna photos in the last year or so that were photographed by Steven Klein and
> could conceivably be chalked up to tension between his camp and hers. At least
> two of the leaked shoots were Klein's, for W (and for the Hard Candy packaging).
>
> Let's get something straight: We're all for exposing the artifice at work in
> these high-gloss photo shoots — particularly when what's being sold is not just
> unattainable to most, it's anatomically unfeasible. But contrary to what counsel
> for some of the airbrushees may think, mocking what these women actually look
> like is not the point.
>
> Still, Madonna offers her own complications: She seems to regard her body as a
> hard-fought act of defiance, a bulwark against weakness or aging. If the
> unretouched photos of her tell us anything, it's that people are still obsessed
> with confirming the ultimate impossibility of that goal.
>
She's always been a sweat hog. That's why she used to go to Central park
to pick up Puerto Ricans to fuck her. When she got famous, she did half
the NBA. |