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Article: Ready to Wear
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 19, 2009
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There is a complicity between subject and onlooker in Ellen Von
Unwerth's photography that is unusual if not entirely surprising
given the story of the brains behind it. Von Unwerth, after all,
like both Sarah Moon and Corinne Day, is a female photographer who
worked as a model before changing sides. She is therefore,
inherently, and without anything even approaching the worthy, rather
more sensitive in her approach to her subjects than most.
Erotically charged but never exploitatively so, intriguing and
demonstrating kitsch humour and unashamed decadence, the
photographer's signatures are both instantly recognisable and
refreshingly warm - a far cry from the cool objectification of women ...
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