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Vogue Hommes, 2002
Vanessa Beecroft
Italy, b. 1969, active United States
From the series Double Exposure, 2001–2
Ink-jet print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection
M.2021.96.5a–b
© Vanessa Beecroft, 2021, digital images courtesy of the artist
In 2002 the magazine Vogue Hommes invited Vanessa Beecroft to produce a series considering masculinity. This work depicts a naked model posed in a headstand, next to a clothed man—Beecroft’s brother—who stands upright. By staging the figures in front of Milan’s Palazzo di Giustizia (Palace of Justice), Beecroft references her brother’s profession in the field of law. He wears the clothing of contemporary status and power, while the woman hovers out of time and place, an idealized fantasy of subordinate beauty.