Tuesday 18 August 2009

What is Glamour?

I found this video on the Guardian website, it is, I suppose research, done by Guardian photographer Christian Sinbaldi, in conjunction with Age Concern Camden. This reminded me of one of the D&AD briefs last year, about what is wealth and what is poverty, and the different ways these things could be viewed. It shares many of the same values of this Guardian project and interestingly that both projects were photographic, perhaps some things are too complex to explain away in a tangle of words. Sometimes it can be true that an image is worth a thousand words, and even though this video has an audio element to it, I feel that it is the images that are most striking. Here it strikes me that the difference between glamour and beauty, (though it could be looked on as age), has far more to do with respect. If you have respect for yourself, respect from others and respect for others then you are glamorous. If you are selfish though aesthetically pleasing you may be beautiful. Beautiful people see it in themselves where as glamorous people are seen in another’s eyes.http://http//www.guardian.co.uk/society/audioslideshow/2009/aug/18/christian-sinibaldi-age-concern-exhibition

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