Although a fashion photograph, the underlying feeling from the image is that you have caught a couple in a sexually intimate This suggests that they will end up in bed together.
Images from lifestyle magazines. Images from lifestyle magazines. Fashion shots of what men should wear only present men in one dimension – what they wear is an indication of their value. The addition of the tap was a tongue in cheek attempt to consider other human functions.
The relentless advertisements for cars is not only creating reward for status it is reinforcing a society where the car is central to ‘need’ and a system organized for us to need to be ‘somewhere else”. The introduction of the settee as a symbol for resting at home is an attempt to question this central assumption.
Graham Tansley 