“I think Annie Leibovitz had a great influence on the frame. I am discussing exactly and above all the public reaction to the photos,” the fashion critic noted.
lady after her photoshoot for American Vogue. Photography by Olena Zelenskathe authorship of the world-famous portraitist, who at one time photographed John Lennon, Queen Elizabeth, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and others, caused a wave of indignation. First of all, because of the “unfeminine image”, which, as noted by fashion critic and art critic Zoya Zvyniatkivska, was created not so much by the portraitist herself, but by the artist Annie Leibovitz.
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“… In the case of Vogue, I think Annie Leibovitz had a big influence on the shot. I am discussing precisely and above all the public reaction to the pictures. And it is exactly like our society today. It's not good or bad, it's just reality and you have to understand it”. In particular, Lyudmila Dobrovolska, Ivanna Kobernyk, Galina Tanai, Vasilisa Frolova, Olga Shurova, Zhanna Lavrova, Yulia McGuffey.
“We simply have to keep in our heads all the time that those images, and therefore those values, which have long been familiar and standard for the West, are actually mostly incomprehensible and foreign to us; that here, in Eastern Europe, we have our own beauty and our own rules, and this is an accurate indicator of how far we are from them, how different we are, – noted Zvyniatkivska, pushing back from comments under Zelenska's photo such as “Who is sitting like that.” And she added, “And now the most difficult thing is for adherents of European development and similar rational things (I am also among them, if anything): perhaps it is these differences that give us the strength to hold on now and, in the end, will help us win.”
Among Ukrainian photographers, the reaction of a photographer from Buchi, Yulia Eliseyeva, who noted a certain similarity between Leibowitz's photo of Olena Zelenska and a painting by the French post-impressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, gained some publicity and suggested that this similarity is not accidental. It is about the work of “Clowness Sha-Yu-Kao”.
“Refraction of reality in the game “I am not I” is an ancient cultural tradition. From the masks of ancient mimes, through the stormy course of Renaissance carnivals to the mannered theatricality of the Rococo of the 18th century. and moving Watteaus, this tradition, transforming, passed into the 20th century, giving birth to new and so close to us images:
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sad Piero early Vertynskyi, Chaplin's sad clown, Picasso's pensive circus performers, Fellini's brilliant clowning… The clown's self-irony helps turn tears into laughter.” Earlier, the author of DT.UA Kateryna Tsalyk dealt with the halftones of the image of a sad clown in her article of the same name.
