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Beauty & the Sea Beast…

31 Tuesday Aug 2010

Posted by stanfordblog in Fashion, Photography, Reflections

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Baudelaire, beautiful, Beauty, Charles Baudelaire, Fashion, Juan Zambrano, Mollusc, Octopus, Oleg Galagan, Photography

© Juan Zambrano

…the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. – Charles Baudelaire

There is a beauty in the grotesqueness of the octopus draped over the model’s skin – the mythological masculine form juxtaposed with the slimy, fetid mollusc. Both share a damp pallor.

Model – Oleg Galagan

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