Wednesday, April 02, 2003
Cliques
Dutch photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek have created an on-line gallery of the informal dress-codes of different social groups. I've killed like half an hour looking through the site. The explanation from the site does a better job of explaining things that I can:
They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element.
posted by JMV |
4/02/2003 11:12:00 AM
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