The Gap’s ad campaign in fall 2001 shows slender stylish young ladies, with a caption underneath that says, ‘My First Love’. The reader/gazer/consumer expects some sexually provocative image or story to follow. Then comes the wonderful twist th ...
Archive for October 10th, 2008
Super Models; part two; Marc Gafni
Moralists often accuse the advertisers of a great moral wrong in this kind of advertising. After all there seems to be a false suggestion that we will somehow get the girl if we buy the car. Moralists however often seem to think the rest of us are no ...
Super Models: Models of the Erotic: Marc Gafni
Supermodels The Shechina’s exile is all too apparent even in Webster’s dictionary. Webster’s defines erotic as “tending to arouse sexual love or desire.” The sentence would be perfect without the word “sexual.” In the secret of the ...