Interesting how each of us saw this particular window display. I remember shooting it standing side by side with you. You see it as social comment: "free people...for sale." The man walking past the window does not even seem to recognize the fact that the slating shadows slicing across the shop window are at odds with the slogan expressed in words here. My own interpretation of it http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/110781586 ) uses light and shadow and nearly the entire window display to mute the intended effect of the advertising itself. Your image speaks eloquently of brainwashed shoppers, while my image speaks of "free people" as a contrivance of advertising itself.
Interesting how each of us saw this particular window display. I remember shooting it standing side by side with you. You see it as social comment: "free people...for sale." The man walking past the window does not even seem to recognize the fact that the slating shadows slicing across the shop window are at odds with the slogan expressed in words here. My own interpretation of it http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/110781586 ) uses light and shadow and nearly the entire window display to mute the intended effect of the advertising itself. Your image speaks eloquently of brainwashed shoppers, while my image speaks of "free people" as a contrivance of advertising itself.
