Vogue Italiaさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Vogue ItaliaInstagram)「Opinion 4 of 4. Angelo Flaccavento. “Working in America - where puritanical prudery becomes strident at the sight of a nipple - was hard for Helmut Newton: as a European, he found such moralistic fervour farcical. Twenty-two years have passed since then, and despite the digital emancipation we are living one of the darkest and most fundamentalist epochs in human memory. Those who are in error or have been in error in the past – and who is without sin, really? – are not only lost, but will be erased, forcibly eradicated from the history books. It could happen to Newton himself, to Guy Bourdin and to all those photographers who in the 1970s of true sexual liberation produced uncomfortable, provocative, irritating images. We complain that the powerful images of the past are no longer produced, but what can a photographer or a writer do to express himself nowadays? Very little. The politically correct is a dark and merciless god, but art must be uncomfortable. It is the task of artists to shake consciences, to irritate, to tear veils, to produce thinking, to be execrable and incorrect. It is society’s task to welcome these lucubrations, to feed on the stimulus, to progress.” Read the full text by #AngeloFlaccavento (@poeticallypunk) in the October issue of Vogue Italia, out on October 6th. Helmut Newton, Nadja, Stern, Berlin 1994, copyright Helmut Newton Estate, courtesy Helmut Newton Foundation.」10月5日 0時29分