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Old Hollywood (2006)-
The Old Hollywood series is a comment on the commercialism in contemporary time. During the era of Pictorialism in photography is when the film industry took off. The product advertised in the photography then was none other than Hollywood glamour. Photographs were specifically taken to promote the artist or the film, but the best kinds of media sell you something. In the past, when the original photographs were taken people were being sold fantasies not through a product but through the idea of the class Audrey Hepurn or the mysterious James Dean. Now media utilizes celebrities to attempt to sell you these fantasies through materialism by showing you the product Audrey Hepurn or James Dean would use. This is another example of fantasy escapism but only by buying this product will you possibly reach this Hollywood fantasy.
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