This graphic exploration was built from lace purchased in the Portobello road (around 1970) and the lips are from an enamel broach of (I think) Marilyn Munroe’s lips. The nipples – inspired by Tom Wesselmann‘s Great American nudes series – are constructed from wood and painted with gloss paint.
The original version of this shot, as with the one above, was done as an in-camera montage. However, the ability to resize the lace overlay with Photoshop offers a welcome degree of creative freedom to the contemporary editing of a vintage shot. In the original, the lace element was too large, but of course in a pre-digital world one was stuck with the scale of the two sandwiched elements and a re-shoot was the only route to fine tuning. Long live Photoshop!
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