Alice Springs- "Fashion for Depeche Mode, Paris" 1971

http://www.helmut-newton.com/current_exhibitions/alicesprings/gallery.html#2

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This is the principle of commodity fetishism, the domination of society by “intangible as well as tangible things,” which reaches its absolute fulfillment in the spectacle, where the tangible world is replaced by a selection of images which exist above it, and which simultaneously impose themselves as the tangible par excellence.

***This image, while used as an ad-most likely for clothing- makes us believe that we have  relationship with this woman. We stare at her, possibly even speak with her, but then we receive this glare from her, as though she is saying,” What are you staring at?”  On the other hand, she is dressed as though she wants attention from people, making her a walking contradiction. The quote I chose can associate the tangiable with the clothes she is wearing. Knowing that we could go and buy these clothes and possibly look like her, and get the attention she is getting. The intangiable though, is her herself. Or, us, wearing the clothes. We could then walk down the street, getting irritated by people staring at us. On the other hand, while in reality she may be intangiable, there is a photo that we can look at whenever we want, making her tangiable.