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Calling editorial mag experts! I remember a photo, but not much else
Hi everyone,
Firstly, apologies if this is in the wrong forum category! To start, I cannot find the photo, photographer, or magazine this vivid image in my mind came from.
Now, this has really been irking me all day. I was reading about Guy Bourdin today (his previous collaboration with Nars and how a beauty blogger refused to review his products) and all of a sudden I got this really vivid image of a fashion editorial I saw many many years back. I can't remember the magazine, I want to say it was Vogue or maybe W, but I'm not positive. It was not by Guy, I do not think as it seemed to be photographed more romanticized (for a lack of a better word). It was a morbid yet haunting but still sort of beautiful series. I remember it was in the news I think as well.
The image I have is of an aerial shot from at the very top of a stairwell (where the photographer would be looking down). Instead of a spiral staircase, the stairs form a vertical rectangle. The model is lying on her back at the bottom (and at the center of the photograph) and inside this vertical rectangle shape that the stairs form. It looked as if the model was lying in a grave but there was no grave-like literal things present (i.e. dirt, tombstone, etc). It was more symbolic/inferential.
I think in the same series, models were in different areas (one was in a field) just lying in different 'broken doll' positions. One image just showed horizontal legs wearing high heels on a railroad track (body out of the frame). There was no blood, no violence, and no gore in any of the images.
Any help would be appreciated! One can only google so many keywords based on this description
Hi everyone,
Firstly, apologies if this is in the wrong forum category! To start, I cannot find the photo, photographer, or magazine this vivid image in my mind came from.
Now, this has really been irking me all day. I was reading about Guy Bourdin today (his previous collaboration with Nars and how a beauty blogger refused to review his products) and all of a sudden I got this really vivid image of a fashion editorial I saw many many years back. I can't remember the magazine, I want to say it was Vogue or maybe W, but I'm not positive. It was not by Guy, I do not think as it seemed to be photographed more romanticized (for a lack of a better word). It was a morbid yet haunting but still sort of beautiful series. I remember it was in the news I think as well.
The image I have is of an aerial shot from at the very top of a stairwell (where the photographer would be looking down). Instead of a spiral staircase, the stairs form a vertical rectangle. The model is lying on her back at the bottom (and at the center of the photograph) and inside this vertical rectangle shape that the stairs form. It looked as if the model was lying in a grave but there was no grave-like literal things present (i.e. dirt, tombstone, etc). It was more symbolic/inferential.
I think in the same series, models were in different areas (one was in a field) just lying in different 'broken doll' positions. One image just showed horizontal legs wearing high heels on a railroad track (body out of the frame). There was no blood, no violence, and no gore in any of the images.
Any help would be appreciated! One can only google so many keywords based on this description
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Thanks in advance 
