The Pornofication of the Female Pop Star

Miley Cyrus photographed by Terry Richardson Singer Sinead O’Connor has written an open letter to fellow singer Miley Cyrus warning her not to be exploited by the music business. The letter was prompted by Miley Cyrus’ most recent music video which, apart from overt sexual references and nudity, visually also references O’Connor’s minimalistic look in…

Interview with Eva Stenram

We are now on bloglovin’. Please follow us!!! Eva Stenram, Drape IV, 2012 Eva Stenram is a London based visual artist. Incorporating digitally manipulated photographs, found photographs and images from the internet, Eva’s work comments on our complex relationship with the photographic image, our relationship with surveillance culture and our relationship with privacy. Eva was…

The Perfume Ad Formula

Advertising for perfumes, particularly perfumes by female celebrities, is produced with amazing visual consistency. A brief glance at a variety of ads shows that there appears to be a formula for celebrity perfume ads in American popular culture: the celebrity is photographically represented alongside the perfume she advertises which is usually shown on the bottom,…