Why Do We Dream?

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(The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine by The Flaming Lips)

Someone made a reference to Helmut Newton today when looking at my girl/gun series.  I guess I can’t hide anymore…I’ve been walking around with his images in my head for a while.  In the hands of an amateur fetishism, perversion and the failings of modern society can be quite gruesome.  Give it to Newton and they hit you over the head with raw beauty.  An honesty that overshadows its graphic elements.  And as much as his work is voyeuristic and sexual…it’s not sexy.  There is actually nothing sexy about them.  They exist in a dream.  His dream…and hopefully mine…and hopefully yours.  Because it’s a really great dream.  Really.

I also ran across this sweet French piece by SUPERBUS…goes with the lighter side of Newton.  If there is such a thing…ha ha…(actually there must be as he spent Winter months at Chateau Marmont to “keep the gloom at bay”)