Longo borrowed a film still from Rainer Werner Fassbinder for
images of men struck by a bullet.
Not exact matches
The front cover
of one
of the Catholic papers at the start
of November had a most
striking image, that
of the meeting
of two
of the most famous
men in the world: the Pope, Benedict XVI, and Professor Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist from Cambridge.
If this sort
of voyeurism
strikes you as unbecoming
of a
man -
of - the - cloth, especially with a pre-pubescent boy sitting at his side, you're not alone, since the creepy scenario automatically conjures up
images of pedophile priests.
It's no spoiler to reveal the film is narrated by a dead
man — it opens with the beautifully
striking image of William Holden, face down in a swimming pool.
Layering
images of women and
men culled from vintage Ebony and Jet magazines «with colorful ink washes,
striking geological formations, and dreamy skyscapes, Simpson creates fantastical coiffures that pay homage to the beauty
of Black hair.»
An acute draftsman, she produced politically driven
images of industrial scenes,
men building roads and a
striking portrait
of a woman selling pretzels on the street from a cart.
With the consistent implementation
of a deviating silhouette for both women and
men, they breach the common fashion
image with a
striking alternative.