Fashion Pictures: Do They Suck?

Fashion PicturesThere’s an interesting critique of the current state of fashion photography over at Slate. It bills itself as “An argument in pictures,” though it’s an argument that relies more on the cultural disparity between a semi-imagined golden age of fashion photography and today’s predictably bemoaned state of the same than on a real critique. What’s really interesting is the delivery of the argument, which is incredibly visual (if not perhaps overly so) — a kind of PowerPoint-like presentation in HTML, which is surprisingly rare on the Web. In spite of the weakness of the content, I kind of like the way it hits short, quick points. Now if only someone a little smarter would pick up on the form…

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