s.m eisenstein - skirt
SKIRT
When the peasant woman lets her skirt be ripped up for material to help in repairing the tractor, the gesture bears the weight of a history: its pregnancy brings together the past victory (the tractor bitterly won from bureaucratic incompetence), the present struggle and the effectiveness of solidarity. Roland Barthes
brian griffin - comme and communism
COMME AND COMMUNISM
Photographer: Brian Griffin. Stylist: Rei Kawakubo, boss of Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons. Location: Soviet Georgia in Winter 1989/90 - a tense moment with political meetings on street corners and armed soldiers protecting statues of Stalin. (Georgia was to become an independent republic in April 1991.) No professional models were used. Instead, the team worked with local peasants, often wearing their own clothes, sometimes supplemented by a Comme piece. The photographs appeared in Six , an extravagant magazine published by Comme that was given away free to top customers. In Eisenstein’s films, Capitalism (The Old) was inevitably superseded by Soviet Communism (The New). But by 1989, the Soviet Empire was about to implode and Capitalism (The Old) was soon to triumphantly describe itself as The New. Griffin’s photographs brilliantly register this epochal moment in modern history, when Comme seems more inspiring than Communism.
poor photographer - japanese magnolia
yuya nitta - here and there (detail)
Here
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