Above, the concept of desire exists in a tension between the cognitive and physical, and between pleasure and suffering. Below, the introduction to Philosophy & Desire suggests the discourse of desire has been associated with Freud and sex, and Hegel and power, but does not consider that sex can be a vehicle of power as the editorial below suggests.
Below, looking through the fashion lens as a dominant male perspective. First heterosexually, then homosexually, then at two women, suggesting another male view or female homosexuality.
The Double Page Spread, Rosetta Brooks
The author suggests that progressive fashion ads are often considered like that above, something entering an art realm. However it was the double page spread, a form borrowed from pornography, that sexualized fashion magazines.
Above and below Helmut Newton for Vogue.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2644030231343746587
Above and below other photographers of the double page spread.
Guy Bourdin
Above and below art photography of the body was Bourdin's inspiration.
Bourdin has been inspiration for subsequent generations of photographers.
View Bourdin's films here: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/the-art-of-guy-bourdin/5187/
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