The Secret Life of the American Teenager

No one subscribes to the mantra "Sex sells" quite like Abercrombie & Fitch. Only in America would you have an American pastoral design aesthetic marketed with pornography. But is it really porn? 

Yes it is selling sex, but the ultimate products are clothing not orgasms. And there is some redeeming artistic and production value, check out the Game of Throne guys lined up in the desert. Maybe a bad example. Okay okay I went too far, a bow over a dick does not fine art make. But the question remains, what are we looking at?

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Kristie Muller Digitized

Other than the occassional nostalgic, you might be hard pressed to find a person who insists on the relevancy of the film camera. We take our pictures with phones,  screen shots, ipads and of course we only view photos on the computer. This has changed both the process and art of photography for good or bad.

Kristie Muller has a distinct informality to her photos, largely thanks to the disposable camera quality.  This is reiterated by her interest in cell phone photography, which she sees as the democratization of the medium. Although it might just be a lot more people taking bad photos.

All photos by Kristie Muller
via Dazed Digital

Artist Logan White uses nudity unapologetically. Sometimes it is pretty, but mostly it is boney and buried under the shadow of a color bomb. Her subjects are inviting, apart from the Sinew on a Steinway, which seems a rebuff to the playfulness of her other work. While she praises her idol, Nobuyoshi Araki for his"ability to make even the most subjects be about sex of death astounding," this seems equally apropos to her work.

All images via Dazed Digital

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