Desmond Morris wrote the forward for this book, he makes a good point, in that throughout the whole of human history we have had tribes, and each tribe has always been re replaced by a new tribe. From african tribes to now 'music tribes', every human wants to feel part of a 'tribe' whether it be the collection of contacts in your address book or a football team you follow.
But are these certain tribes of people considered a homage to their favourite band, or a pastiche of their favourite band? Personally i struggle to choose whether it is a pastiche or homage, i'm sort of swaying towards it being a homage as each individual are obviously proud of who they are homaging.
The layout of the book though strikes me as it's taking the piss out of each of these tribes, i think it's the identity parade-esq style of the photographs.
What do you think; Homage? Pastiche? Ironic? Taking the piss?
I think there is some elements of taking the mik, but at the same time there is irony in there. Good images though.
ReplyDeleteyeah, it is proper ironic haha i thought it would be a good example :- ) you shoulda seen some of the others! There was some horrific images !
ReplyDeletei think this leans more towards a pastiche style of photography, it just looks like they have picked people who would fulfill the stereotypes of what people would expect the fans of the mentioned bands to look like.
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