super brief thoughts on still photographs, paparazzi, video and victoria beckham

this morning, i had this sweet plan to write an open letter to my all-time favorite celebrity girlcrush victoria beckham.

victora_beckham_20__wenn2161638

but then i got distracted and fell down a wormhole of google image searches, and it suddenly struck me that it’s worth mentioning how incredibly disingenuous it is that our  consumption of star-images is so often confined to still photographs.

Victoria

our gossip is usually photograph-based. meaning: there’s a photo, somebody writes a story to accompany it, and then i read that story and see the photos. voila! except this is kind of unfortunate because photographs tell a limited story. photographs are, by necessity, always silent, always still.

1504

i think, if we’re to be responsible consumers of gossip (if there is even such a thing), it’s important to watch a video every now and again. if only as a reminder that this whole business of the celebrity-industrial-complex is, in fact, a business. and not nearly so silent, still, and pretty as it might appear.

Leave a Reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.