Glamorama

© Merlin Bronques

“Lets go to that new place,
with a name a bit like that place,
where the famous get so out of their face,
they die of fatal cocktails
all chemically mace,
we'll be rubbing shoulders with the stars
inna outer space”.

(Coldcut, Noah’s Toilet)

Se Bret Easton Ellis fosse un fotografo probabilmente sarebbe Merlin Bronques, l’autore di fiumi di istantanee delle serate più hip e glamour tra Stati Uniti ed Europa (qui un articolo del New York Times). Calici di vino, volti lucidi, sorrisi dentati e forse quella sensazione di freddo intenso che Victor Ward, il fotomodello protagonista di Glamorama di Ellis, provava in ogni luogo in cui si recasse.
Da vedere in parallelo con i lavori sulla vita mondana di Larry Fink (anche qui), da Social Graces a Runway fino alle sue immagini dei party di Vanity Fair.

© Merlin Bronques

If Bret Easton Ellis was a photographer, then his name would be Merlin Bronques, the author of thousands of photographs of the most hip and glamour parties in the U.S. and Europe (a story by the New York Times here). Wine glasses, shiny faces and grins, and that cold that Victor Ward, the male model protagonist of Ellis’ Glamorama, feels everywhere he goes.
To be seen in comparison with Larry Fink’s works (also here) on parties and social life, Social Graces, Runway and his images of Vanity Fair parties.

© Larry Fink