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I like it.
Er, no one complains when it's a highly contrived image of an anorexic genetic mutant (a.k.a. a model) sporting unaffordable designer labels, meticulously applied make-up, and perfectly styled hair... taken in a studio under highly controlled lighting... where the best image is chose from hundreds and then undergoes painstaking Photoshop retouching.
Most of us (including myself) do not complain about that kind of contrived shooting... some of us even aspire to it. So I'm thinking this image should be able to squeak by...
Then again, maybe socially conscious political commentary isn't entirely compatible with photography. People might start to question whether or not a culture suffers psychologically from the constant media bombardment of entirely unrealistic body images.
If you start down that road, the risk is that people might start feeling good about themselves just the way they are and without having to buy something. And if we lose our conditioning to look only at unnaturally beautiful people, we might actually start to notice the less attractive, less fortunate among us and start seeing and treating them simply as human beings.
Somehow I think that's entirely incompatible with our current political financing laws.
Then again, maybe I totally misjudged the political message here and the photograph is actually advocating slavery.
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