Why must Brothers be portrayed as resembling apes or someone dark and possibly violent? Vanity Fair will follow up Vogue's highly criticized portrayal of Lebron James with a dark, semi-thugged out Tiger Woods. Just imagine Tiger with the tattoos and you can immediately see him in a very different image than the one Tiger and Nike have crafted over the years. By the way, The Lebron and Tiger photographs were taken by the same photographer - Annie Leibovitz.
Many people say that the criticism has been overblown with Lebron, and they will probably say the same thing to the Tiger Woods photo critics as well. People do not realize that Lebron was the first black man to appear on a Vogue cover in their 116 history. The question one raises is why does the first or historically rare opportunity have to be portrayed in a way that by American standards are negative.
If these athletes were aware of the American history and the negative connotations with such apelike, violent, and predator portrayals, one would hope that the athletes would not agree to these images of Brothers.
1 comments:
don't we all remember OJs' pictures.
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