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i don't know how far i'd go with this, but there is visual rhetoric and it enables levels of resonance to be established--this resonance can be ironic or parodic as easily as it can be repetition. i think there's an allusion in the vogue cover--i think it is exploiting the name of the issue ("the shape issue") and is a kind of comment on it. personally, i harbor the vague hope that the photo is making fun of vogue itself through this...
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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