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Grace Jones album cover photo used "visual trickery"- what other famous pics have?

  • 19-09-2009 02:05PM
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    I was reading that Grace Jones could not do that arabesque pose on the Island life album cover.
    grace_photo.jpg
    grace3.jpg
    http://sleevage.com/grace-jones-island-life/
    If you’re wondering how Jones’ body can do this pose, the simple answer is that it can’t. Goude employs what is technically referred to as “visual trickery”
    http://arts.guardian.co.uk/image/0,,1672997,00.html
    The arabesque that Grace Jones is executing in this 1978 photograph/artistic creation may be graceful, but it is also impossible. "What I'm interested is the illusion of reality," says the photographer and art director Jean-Paul Goude, who was to be Jones's Pygmalion, transforming her from hard-partying model to an androgynous fantasy image and international superstar. "And unless you are extraordinarily supple, you cannot do this arabesque. The main point is that Grace couldn't do it, and that's the basis of my entire work: creating a credible illusion."

    Are there any other famous photos which have been altered in similar ways? Not just simple touching up, but "trickery" like this.


Comments

  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    im fairly sure the annie lebovitz vanity fair africa shoots were cut a past for at least a few


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭democrates


    Maybe Grace really posed like that because her mic was plugged into a mains outlet...


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