jmrmartinho
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Cant wait for Glam Sun and Beauty!!
This is VI's best main editorial of 2012 but that is damning it with faint praise. The concept and styling are good / great... the energy / vibe is great, I feel like I am in the club - Meisel and Co. did a fantastic job on that front. Linda is mixed in the ed, her posing, while somewhat redundant, is great, she owns the room but she is not (or cannot) deliver facially in a few of the images - I suspect that Meisel had to use camera techniques to compensate. I, and many others, have noticed this in some of her other work, and it is not always a showstopper for me, but here it affects the result, and what should be a great editorial is just good / almost great.
It is interesting to read your comment. Despite I'm a big fan of Linda, I also feel sometimes that her expressions fall below expectations, lack inspiration and life. This is valid both for her early work and current pictures, but more frequent in her work by Meisel. This is even more surprising that there are editorials where she is a true actress... I'm tempted to say she just delivers the expressions that she was asked to deliver.
This May 2012 Vogue IT editorial reminds of another "Linda and the boys" that is totally different and where Linda is "facially" perfectly tuned with the atmosphere : She was the kind of dame...
Moreover, I've noticed that Linda is more often the target of this critism than other models, but if you compare, let's say Kate Moss' empty glaze and Christy Turlington's social smile, they are equally poor delivers. So maybe Linda's features just don't allow neutrality.
I think in this case it is deliberate and compensating.Damn, Meisel is missing it with his lighting lately. He needs to get it together.