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He knows us so well
Submitted by LaurenMitchell on Thu, 2008-03-06 00:54
This photo of Adrien Grenier had me totally pegged as I perused celebrity blog perezhilton.com in an effort not to do any of my real work.
But I really like the idea of a celebrity sending a message back to us, observing what we are doing at that very moment in such a completely accurate way while we try (or maybe Perez Hilton tries) to describe and make judgments about what he's up to. I'm reminded of those shirts Britney Spears used to wear, in that those were sort of an anticipation of what the viewer was thinking about her, instead of about what, in this case, the viewer is doing.
In both of these cases there's a weird fusion of watching, making judgments, and sending messages that make reciprocal judgments all in one image. |
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Your post makes me think of
Your post makes me think of celebrities who draw attention to the act of being photographed by taking pictures of the paparazzi who take pictures of them. Often, they do this as a way to criticize the photographers. A good example of this can be found here: pictures of Jessica Biel taking pictures of paparazzi. But in thinking about how celebrities use these situations to mediate the ways that we watch and make judgments, actions like those taken by Biel seem both striking and futile.