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03-JAN-2008

Fantasies, Vinh Long, Vietnam, 2008

Two women emerge from a wedding dress store in Vinh Long, a store that trades largely on dreams. Vietnamese weddings are often massive community events, and the bride changes dresses several times during the ritual. The women probably work in this store – their businesslike outfits and attitudes contrast to the stylized mannequins in the store. They, like the motorbike parked just outside the store, represent the real world. I juxtapose them against the three figures inside the store that represent the stuff that dreams are made of.

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Phil Douglis23-Jan-2008 21:16
You are saying here, Carol, that these mannequins have Western, rather than Asian, features -- which is very common throughout Asia. Advertising is a western invention, and when Asians came to adapt it for their own use, they simply kept the Western paradigm as a standard. And so it has remained, leading to the incongruity of Asian dreams being defined and promoted by Western standards.
Carol E Sandgren23-Jan-2008 21:04
And again, the fantasy dresses are modeled by white mannequins, which may add to the fantasy in their world. Beautifully portrayed Phil! Dreams and fantasies are only a glasspane away!
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