Wow this Miley Cyrus photo really has the idiocracy in a tizzy.
But really, who cares?
I’m more interested in what I think are more important issues. Leave aside for a moment the picture calls to mind the phrase ridden hard and put away wet , I’d like to focus on the ridiculous cultural agreement that Annie Leibowtiz is a great artist.
To stay with my horse metaphor theme, she’s a one-trick pony if ever there was one. Celebrity + vacant stare copied from works of 20th Century masters like August Sander and Walker Evans = A Leibowitz.
Is it just me or does pretty much every picture she’s ever taken look like this?
The difference is the subject is always a celebrity so she doesn’t have to actually capture anything because viewers of the pictures already possess all the information they need to react to the picture. So they look past its lousy quality to the boring issue of “packaged teenage celebrity looks like tramp.”
Something else: You’ll notice on the cover “Barbara Walters remembers …”
Again I wonder, who cares?
All this talk about people who should go away and won’t finally puts me in the mood for the All Go Away Already team I promised a while ago. Coming very soon.
Filed under: Idiots and Jerks, The Media
