foto_decadent: L.A. Portfolio

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foto_decadent,
@ 2009-01-05 18:04:00

L.A. Portfolio

Editorial: L.A. Portfolio
Magazine: L'Uomo Vogue
Issue: May/June 2006
Model: Chad White
Photographer: Steven Klein

Warning: Male nudity, not dial-up friendly

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	real_platona 2009-01-05 06:37 pm UTC (link)
	home pets (Reply to this)

	benson3 2009-01-05 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	What a delightfully odd little exercise in homoerotic S&M! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kkatie 2009-01-05 06:51 pm UTC (link)
	ahahahahaa (Reply to this) (Parent)

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evilpenguin999, 2009-01-06 02:41 am UTC

	zlatkagromova 2009-01-05 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	Don't like at all! (Reply to this)

	likeamime 2009-01-05 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	lol omg this is pathetic (Reply to this) (Thread)

	unicellular 2009-01-06 08:26 am UTC (link)
	that's they aimed (Reply to this) (Parent)

	anett_deviange 2009-01-05 07:42 pm UTC (link)
	Ken (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sundaypop 2009-01-06 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	haha, exactly what i was about to say! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bacchanti 2009-01-05 07:46 pm UTC (link)
	what the heck is all this about? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	madredeus16 2009-01-09 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	it s seems like Chad is the toy pet of a bunch of wierdos living in a curt comuna... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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madredeus16, 2009-01-09 05:54 pm UTC

	little_honda 2009-01-05 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	whoa, Peggy Lipton! (Reply to this)

	ology 2009-01-05 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	I actually laughed at this one. I was kind of hoping it was the last of the shoot and he had "died" or something. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	evillevonrandom 2009-01-05 10:47 pm UTC (link)
	lol I thought the same thing! XD (Reply to this) (Parent)

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surrealistisch, 2009-01-06 12:38 pm UTC

	timemachine 2009-01-05 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	these are awful awful awful! (Reply to this)

	iamalittlefish 2009-01-05 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	I don't get it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	phenomenologic 2009-01-05 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	My thoughts exactly. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	trina_crys 2009-01-05 08:32 pm UTC (link)
	I <3 it thanks for sharing! (Reply to this)

	sugarcrashed 2009-01-05 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	these are really sad, or maybe i just don't get the concept. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dee_habermas 2009-01-05 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	The concept is the "old sad gay's dreams" ?! Or The "Dead Gianni's Wishes" Concept. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	rock_bad_bubble 2009-01-05 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	all this photo are provocative!)) (Reply to this)

	knotoknow 2009-01-05 09:03 pm UTC (link)
	Proof that the bikini briefs are a fashion for many an occasion. Photo shoot for a porno cum late night soap opera? (Reply to this)

	dee_habermas 2009-01-05 09:27 pm UTC (link)
	It looks vulgar, like Fiennes' Eug. Onegin. Falcon studio is much better. (Reply to this)

	maehymn 2009-01-05 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	sweet!! these are great!! :D thanks. (Reply to this)

	valiumaphrodite 2009-01-05 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	The Michael Kaplan ones instantly made me think of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?". (BTW, it's a great film) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lil_neko 2009-01-05 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	Completely unrelated, but nice icon. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	harakanraakku 2009-01-05 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	I'm nothing else but highly CREEPED OUT (Reply to this)

	oneforellis 2009-01-05 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	As a whole I don't really "get it", but a few of these on their own I really love. (Reply to this)

	aaliysha 2009-01-05 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	ça rime à quoi? pff (Reply to this)

	killsurfcity 2009-01-05 10:06 pm UTC (link)
	gore vidal?? (Reply to this)

	zomfgmelissa 2009-01-05 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	I like it, but I can understand why other people might get creeped out. However, I like the images on their own. I don't really get it as a set. I think they overdid the guy in the speedo thing, and I'd probably like it (or get it) more if the pictures varied a little more. But the whole adding random famous people was cool. (Reply to this)

	butterflyhickup 2009-01-05 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	I don't like when shoots are more close to erotica than fashion. (Reply to this)

	kuiskaus 2009-01-05 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	I dont see the creepy. What I do see is a big mess. SOme of the shots are fun. this belongs in the MOMA with people pretending to get it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

janinazew
2009-01-07 12:35 am UTC (link)

Because no one could ever understand anything in MOMA... this is completely transparent, it features celebrities because it is about celebrity culture in LA. There is a storyboard narrative about a boy who is preened hanging around people who are celebrities who are sometimes in LA, they like to look at him in small amounts of clothing and some of them like to touch him. There's even a reference to religion as a function of celebrity in there. It's called LA Portfolio so that you know where it's happening and can grasp the narrative more easily and it's creepy because it is creepy. What's hard to get, what's messy?

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kuiskaus, 2009-01-07 01:35 am UTC

aquarian_days
2009-01-05 10:24 pm UTC (link)

You know those "dead models" fashion shoots that many of us find offensive because all the women look sorta like they've been raped? This photo shoot has that exact same vibe to me. There's more than a couple where he looks like he's been raped and left for dead.

What creeps me out here is that in some of the photos the model is actually interacting with the people he's posing with (in a sensual way), but in others of them, the people in the photos are totally unaware that he's there. For me, it adds to the feeling that he's there only to be a tool for these people's pleasure (and ignored like an inanimate object at all other times).

Setting that aside, some of the people chosen to be in this photo shoot have me scratching my head. What do Peggy Lipton, the Stewarts, Marilyn Manson, Gore Vidal , (etc.) all have in common????

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	theartoflamb 2009-01-06 12:24 am UTC (link)
	Maybe its that they have nothing in common. I think this shoot is supposed to have a displaced sensibility. Which is why I completely agree with you. Although, I have to say (and I may be the only one on here) THAT I LOVE THIS. some of these images are so compelling and I love the contrast of the male model to the celebrities. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)