GAUGUIN II

The sheer proliferation and reach of Gauguin’s effects are mind-boggling.  The supermodel Naomi Campbell writes in a memoir of the fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh that ‘I happened to mention my interest in Gauguin as a starting point for a story.  Peter went for the idea…’; the upshot was a shoot in Port Antonio, Jamaica, in December 1992, which was published in Harper’s Bazaar.

Thomas/Gauguin

All her features had a Raphaelesque harmony at the point where her curves met, her mouth modelled by a sculptor for speaking and kissing the languages of joy and suffering.

Harper’s Bazaar

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