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    Film & Foto

    Jun 05, 2018 2 minutes

    In the mid-1960s, Michelangelo Antonioni’s offered an indelible portrait of a suave fashion photographer in swinging London. The fantasy depicted in the film—where a swaggering photographer-protagonist manhandles his models at will—feels woefully anachronistic in the era of MeToo, when gender dynamics in the film and photography industries are under intense scrutiny. A better mirror for our troubled times might be Antonioni’s , a film that captured the physical—enduring for both its style and story—continues to influence generations of photographers.

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