Why I love Ellen von Unwerth. Part 6.
I love that there’s always a whiff of “backstage” in von Unwerth’s photos. They’re almost vaudevillian, as though they’re pictures of Mae West back in her prime.
You can only have so many glamour shots. Or sexy shots. Naomi Watts is beautiful already – of course she is – but these photos set her up to not just seem beautiful but … interesting. Whether or not she actually is interesting is completely irrelevant.
I kinda love that second one with the crazy Cyndi Lauper hair.