The most powerful photos of 2011. Stunning.

Amaze me.

Le Dernier Cri: how plastic surgery will look like in 2019 according to the Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf! Creepy&Charming

Cindy Sherman exposes at MOMA and I'm in love! (February 26–June 11, 2012)

Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has captured herself in a range of guises and personas which are at turns amusing and disturbing, distasteful and affecting. To create her photographs, she assumes multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, stylist, and wardrobe mistress. With an arsenal of wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props, Sherman has deftly altered her physique and surroundings to create a myriad of intriguing tableaus and characters, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite.

Bringing together more than 180 photographs, this retrospective survey traces the artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the present. Highlighted in the exhibition are in-depth presentations of her key series, including the groundbreaking series “Untitled Film Stills” (1977–80), the black-and-white pictures that feature the artist in stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, and European art-house films; her ornate history portraits (1989–90), in which the artist poses as aristocrats, clergymen, and milkmaids in the manner of old master paintings; and her larger-than-life society portraits (2008) that address the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. The exhibition will explore dominant themes throughout Sherman’s career, including artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth, carnival, and fairy tale; and gender and class identity. Also included are Sherman’s recent photographic murals (2010), which will have their American premiere at MoMA.


In conjunction with the exhibition, Sherman has selected films from MoMA’s collection, which will be screened in MoMA’s theaters during the course of the exhibition. A major publication will accompany the exhibition.

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Drop dead diva: How “fat” can be “sexy”

In a society where “thin” means “winner” and “fat=loser”, there is no space in the Television world

for people who don’t reflect this sad equation.

And for that reason a TV show like “Drop Dead Diva” I think worth’s a prize.

Indeed, this American TV series shows the real average American woman (a 14) and understands how she feels; the frustration for not fitting the right clothes or not reflecting the modern canons of beauty and finally being judged for that.

Drop Dead Diva talk is about the positive potential of women who can be smart&sexy, an association that have never been really used. 

My question is: will people start judging for what we do instead of  what we look like one day?

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