Our group has been looking at how designers and photographers use their available mediums to portray death and vulnerability of the body, we have been focusing on the ephemeral nature of photography and fashion design.
here are a few things i've been thinking about... in regards to Alexander McQueen and Nick Knight.
- McQueen and Knight force you to listen to their views on society through visual mediums that invoke reaction and asks questions... this in turn makes people question the vulnerability of their own bodies.
- McQueen and Knight use raw human emotion to get their points across. Images can act as a reinforcement of peoples ideals, so as to confirm what they already believe through what they see.
- in order to confront viewers they need to step outside peoples comfort zones and take risks to generate different responses from the public.
- images are a powerful medium for message conveyance, viewers are pulled into the situation by what they see.
- both McQueen and Knight are consistently challenging the conventional notions of beauty.
images by Nick Knight.
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