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There is a subdued, unshowy but profound beauty to Hawes’ work.
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Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Blackpink’s Jennie Kim Makes Her Met Gala Debut in Vintage 1990 Chanel
Punctuating the parade of famous famous are unshowy reminders that Avedon pushed the envelope, not only in the medium of photography, but also in the fight for progress.
—Vogue, 23 Jan. 2024
As other scholars have noted, images like this one coincided with a growing distaste for fake, look-at-me bourgeois society; there was a hunger for good, plain people absorbed in plain, unshowy things, inviting viewers to forget themselves, too.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
Even the camera, which generally serves the story in as fluid and unshowy a way as possible, can’t help but be magnetized by the sheer dynamism of Foxx’s screen presence.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
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Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Blackpink’s Jennie Kim Makes Her Met Gala Debut in Vintage 1990 Chanel
Punctuating the parade of famous famous are unshowy reminders that Avedon pushed the envelope, not only in the medium of photography, but also in the fight for progress.
—Vogue, 23 Jan. 2024
As other scholars have noted, images like this one coincided with a growing distaste for fake, look-at-me bourgeois society; there was a hunger for good, plain people absorbed in plain, unshowy things, inviting viewers to forget themselves, too.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
Even the camera, which generally serves the story in as fluid and unshowy a way as possible, can’t help but be magnetized by the sheer dynamism of Foxx’s screen presence.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
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