Bert Berlin ([info]bertberlin) wrote in [info]foto_decadent,
2008-11-20 18:37:00
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American Dreamin'



Editorial: American Dreamin'
Magazine: W
Issue: December 2008
Models: Eniko Mihalik, Lara Stone, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Sessilee Lopez, Aline Weber
Photographer: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin























































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[info]starrlitt

November 20 2008, 22:22:48 UTC 3 years ago

well, this is interesting.

[info]arantzain

November 20 2008, 22:25:46 UTC 3 years ago

Honestly, would have liked a good many more of shots of the model(s) that were not blond. Such beautiful women.

[info]letsdisappear

November 20 2008, 22:26:03 UTC 3 years ago

I really like the enlarged "American" items! Strange idea.

[info]squisheroo

November 20 2008, 22:27:33 UTC 3 years ago

At first glance, she looks cross-eyed in the first picture.

[info]jennaem

November 21 2008, 03:33:45 UTC 3 years ago

nice icon!

[info]woldemar_77

November 20 2008, 22:29:24 UTC 3 years ago

So bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.

[info]anythingbutgrey

November 20 2008, 22:36:02 UTC 3 years ago

what is this?! a normal sized woman looking fabulous!

i love her dress.

[info]killsurfcity

November 21 2008, 21:44:48 UTC 3 years ago

seconded.

[info]malfeasanceses

3 years ago

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[info]patbjorke

November 20 2008, 22:50:32 UTC 3 years ago

In-N-Out Burger! <3

[info]yala_agni

November 20 2008, 22:55:41 UTC 3 years ago

forgotten David LaChapelle

[info]auberryroad

November 20 2008, 22:56:25 UTC 3 years ago

Lara looks like a really strange mutant sometimes. I think that's part of her appeal.

[info]annasui_muimui

November 20 2008, 22:57:08 UTC 3 years ago

wait... am i correct when one of their ideas, or their main idea, is that everything is bigger in america? like the size of food, etc. etc.?
this is a fabulous shoot though!
and agreed, i would loved to have seen other models who werent blonde :(

[info]annanomalee

November 20 2008, 23:05:44 UTC 3 years ago

i really like this.

[info]suzisu

November 20 2008, 23:27:02 UTC 3 years ago

WOW! I Love these!

[info]nihil_exnihilo

November 20 2008, 23:35:06 UTC 3 years ago

I think a lot of these photos are awkwardly posed and cropped D:

[info]volcanoandice

November 20 2008, 23:38:30 UTC 3 years ago

I think the reason behind the blondes is because the whole thing is playing on stereotypes. Any non-American I know, when they think of an American girl, they tell me they picture a blue-eyed blonde. They "know" that there is a little of everything here so there is complete variation in hair and eye color, but that's what they immediately think of. Have you guys forgotten our movies, our music, etc.? I mean... that's the message we put out there, so I can't blame them for thinking that way.


Here's a cheesy example... when I think of a stereotypical French girl, I think of a pale, average-height girl with wavy brown hair and hazel eyes. Or I think of the Bridgitte Bardot type. The reasons I think that are obvious.

[info]choke

November 20 2008, 23:45:56 UTC 3 years ago

At first, I couldn't decide whether or not I liked'em.

I'm still not sure I do.

I think the set was meant to look like the girls were un-posed and natural. Instead, it looked like un-natural, posed girls trying to look un-posed and natural.. eep.

[info]staggers

November 20 2008, 23:46:10 UTC 3 years ago

Some are really awkward, but some are quite good. I love the seventh one down.

[info]staggers

November 20 2008, 23:49:13 UTC 3 years ago

Also, I swear I've been here. Maybe it's just because of the Ross store and ambiguous intersection strip mall...

[info]rapunzels_tears

November 21 2008, 01:00:34 UTC 3 years ago

I don't like these. they are awkwardly posed and the picture composition confuses the eye.

And frankly I really just don't like Lara Stone, but she isn't as bad here as on the runway so I guess that is a plus...

[info]xxxdirtyblvd

November 21 2008, 01:57:37 UTC 3 years ago

aha i worked this shoot! was going to upload it HQ but didn't have time. amazing girls. amazing photogs!

[info]sincerely_jane

November 21 2008, 02:59:53 UTC 3 years ago

sessilee *bows*

[info]a1icey

November 21 2008, 03:17:12 UTC 3 years ago

this is crap, but it is also a million times more intelligent than most editorials ive seen lately.

[info]_char

November 21 2008, 05:20:18 UTC 3 years ago

lmao buffy cut out

[info]_getyourownbox_

November 21 2008, 06:57:10 UTC 3 years ago

ohh i love the black and white one <33

[info]__introspection

November 21 2008, 08:08:36 UTC 3 years ago

cardboard stand-ups?
really?

[info]vesnushko

November 21 2008, 09:08:07 UTC 3 years ago

I do not understand how it is connected with decadent photo actually.
:[

[info]hegelia

November 21 2008, 11:06:31 UTC 3 years ago

ewww this is so shit
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