My next choice is a fashion photography by Steven Meisel. In his artwork, I am amazed by the organised and well composed chaos, a visual oxymoron. At the first sight, the variety of shades and lines (e.g. hair and the dried branches in the back), accumulation of details (the dirt on her hand and arm, spume bursting from her mouth, the skirt, the zipper) make an impression of a nervous, messy composition but the longer I look, the more I am convinced that all the elements could not exist without each other. For me, Meisel found a harmony in disharmony, playing with beautiful, stark black and white palette.
Moreover, the main idea for the whole photoshoot is beautiful, yet terrifying - artist tried to capture the expression of a dying mermaid, craving for water, for a 'breath'. The model is true and authentic, her pose and face transform the candy, cheaply beautiful idealisation of a mermaid into a creature, being deprived of her beauty and her glory.
To sum up, I find this picture interesting because it broke the stereotype of the fairytale and it is simply beautiful in its chaotic, layered and multiplied composition.
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