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Robin Black has pushed the idea of beauty so far that it gone over a cliff. She is not really concerned with making people look pretty, instead she gets her subjects to reveal themselves through the masks they wear.
Go visit BEAUTY IS BORING for a lesson in breaking every rule of make-up and beauty photography.
"For as long as I can remember, I've had a love / hate relationship with beauty. It's a complicated, subjective thing."
ROBIN BLACK
Robin Black's BEAUTY IS BORING is a non-conventional and thoughtful take on beauty. She shoots with a vintage Polaroid camera complete with vintage flashcubes and actual film.
To me, the central thread of The Quiet Front is the idea of nakedness; not nudity per se but the revelation of the self. Often this means stripping away the layers but there are other ways of revealing a person's nature. Coco Chanel once said ""A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed." People can reveal themselves through what they put on.
I'm going to admit ignorance about the mechanics of make-up because mostly it reveals very little about the subject. But what Robin Black does is all together different - it challenges our conventional notion of beauty by pushing the bar and paradoxically getting her subjects to reveal themselves through the masks they wear.
