Saturday, December 5, 2009

In Bed with the Media

Modern media has become a smoke and mirrors act.

Look at this shot taken by Harry Benson, a renowned photograph, on the sets of the Sean Connery movie Thunderball.



Consider the labyrinth.

An act for one "70 mm" camera becomes a piece of hot focus for a gaggle of another group of news-hound cameras which then finds play in the cool art of an avant garde photographer.

Reminds me of the lyrics of a John Mayal (if I remember right) song: “She was looking back to see if I was looking back to see if she was looking back at me

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