Aka, the campaign for real Spock. Admittedly, I find some really ‘out there’ things for blogging about. I don’t plan it–it just works out that way. Usually, this results in me staying up longer than anticipated just to find room for it here. And so after researching the actor band list below, I found a couple of other things that various celebs are doing on the side, some cool and some that make you do a double-take. Like this one from Leonard Nimoy the photographer–yes, Spock–called the Full Body Project. Caution, not safe for, uh, I dunno actually, but it’s different, that’s for sure. It seems like a companion piece to the Dove campaign for Real Beauty, (if they actually meant what they said about starting a legit discussion on the issue of body image).Wait, stupid me, since they’ve already returned to retouching real fake beautiful everyday models, his book may actually be more realerer. Still, it’s a little freaky for me, especially the nude poses bordering on pseudo-sexual themes, almost like something Madonna would put out if she and her dancers had let themselves really go and stopped working out to boot. I guess which is his point. Just what is our idea of normal and what isn’t? Still, Dove worked because they had everyday models in casual poses, semi-dressed. Here, there’s maybe one like that, and I cropped it above left. Which is too bad because overall, Nimoy may actually have been on to something with the original premise, something far more genuine than Dove’s effort, but it devolved into overkill with the exaggerated poses he shot.
Tags: Campaign for Real Beauty, Dove, Leonard Nimoy, Full Body Project
4 comments:
The Dove ads were about a passive, placid, everyday beauty in ordinary women. That's nice. But maybe Nimoy's premise really is that full bodies can be sexual, not just pleasant. Would the poses still seem exaggerated if the models were skinny?
Could be, I never considered that as being the main premise actually. I also thought the Dove work was, (‘Evolution’ in particular), was about the process of how models are made up, altering what is really real. So to the models in the rest of the campaign prior. Thing is, I thought those models were still too ‘model-ee’ for lack of a better word. Nimoy here looks like he chose amateurs off the street, which I respect.
To your point about the skinny vs. fat pose, I’d say I'd like to see Nimoy’s subjects in the Dove poses to have a fair comparison, otherwise, it's getting into apples vs. oranges territory.
no, this is about nimoy having a fat fetish. i'll bet shatner was at the photo shoot too, with his trousers hiked around his ankles.
nimoy has tried his hand at poetry, music and now photography. somebody tell him to confine his creativity to playing mr. spock.
if bones were alive, he'd holler, "damn it, spock! can't you keep your creativity bottled up like your emotions?! or at least only let it erupt every seven years like pon farr!"
Ok, well, I wasn't going to go there. I have to think though if it was, he'd keep his kink private, unlike Dov at American Apparel.
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