Question: Annie Leibovitz
Am I alone in shivering in horror every time I see one of Leibovitz' series of portraits advertising a brand of luxury luggage?
Keith Richards (Image copyright Louis Vuitton / Annie Leibovitz)
Although technically brilliant, the images are repellent in their glossiness: I don't believe for a moment that Keith Richards is strumming his guitar "New York. 3 am. Blues in C" or that Sofia Coppola is listening, enraptured to her father. In short, these pictures feel beautiful and empty - ironic really, as they seem to be supposed to represent life's wonderful journey.
Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola (Image copyright Louis Vuitton / Annie Leibovitz)
I do like some of Annie Leibovitz' pictures, and I will go and see the show that has just opened at the National Portrait Gallery, London, but I'm hoping that there are more portraits and fewer still lifes featuring carefully arranged celebrities.
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In my opinion the Louis Vuitton pictures by Annie Leibovitz represent one of the best advert campaigns for the brand, to me pictures are full of warmth and capture the elitness together with the practicallity of this durable designer luggage company.
Another work of Art that must be seen is this gold million pound boy at www.goldgenie.com
its amazing...
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Ellen, it looks like you don't want to see artists 'selling out'. I struggle with the idea that artists should never allow their art to be used as an advertising conduit. Art is only art when it is released into the public domain (and someone qualified declares it as art!) so, by releasing work into the public domain the artist is promoting that work and what does it really matter if it is subject to a Culture Show special or features in the half-time break of the Superbowl? The end surely justifies the means. Doesn't it?
Robert.
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