Intentionally Awful Studio Portraits, David Wojnarowicz, MoMA Curator's Big News, And More!

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Intentionally Awful Studio Portraits

We've all looked back at our fashion faux pas in photographs past and thought: "What were we thinking?" Gordon Stettinius seems to revel in that experience on a regular basis. The impish photographer has been taking awful studio portraits of himself and sending the cheese-tastic results to industry professionals as a joke. We first came across this on Wired and enjoyed the artist's take-no-prisoners approach to profiling the modern day American male.

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