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August 30th, 2010 Janelle comments (51)Sebastian Faena presents real life mother and son Lynn Koester and Paolo Anchisi in a fascinating story for VMan. The bond between mother and son is one of the strongest and most complex dynamics, but seeing it conveyed in a fashion editorial is a rare thing, especially when the story is less than straightforward. Faena’s pictures are vivid, but they leave a great deal to the imagination of the viewer – is this story more Sons & Lovers or is it veering into Ma Mere territory? Only Faena knows for sure. Regardless of the subtext, Lynn and Paolo both know how to captivate in front of the camera and their striking resemblance makes for memorable shots. Be sure to see the full story when VMan drops September 9th.
UPDATE: This just in, a letter from the V Man Editors: This is a fantasy tale from VMAN’s Age issue. It marks Lynne Koester’s return in front of the camera after not setting foot inside a studio for 10 years. There is nothing more illustrative about age than a mother and son. It is also the first time Lynne is shot with her rising star son Paolo Anchisi.
Imagine Lynne in a film where she plays a burlesque stripper. (Lynne is NOT the blonde woman who plays another stripper in one of the pictures). There is no hidden subtext. Paolo has a girlfriend (see below, played by Yenny from Ford) and he goes to visit his mother at work at the Vaudeville theatre. It is a sweet and sentimental tale that’s much more easily appreciated when one views the full story.
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August 30th, 2010
at 3:06 pm
OMG!!! That second and last shots are just plain creepy. What is the story they are trying to tell. Does he have an intimate relationship with his mother? Does he wash his mother? Disturbing is the word that comes to mind.
August 30th, 2010
at 3:16 pm
What the hell?
August 30th, 2010
at 3:20 pm
The story in these pictures is very clear, great work by Faena.
August 30th, 2010
at 3:21 pm
I feel like the comments on this post are going to be interesting. I am going to have some popcorn and read.
August 30th, 2010
at 3:32 pm
Hmm, i don’t want to see my mother naked in an editorial like this.
August 30th, 2010
at 3:51 pm
lol Janelle. I too will be checking back here every ten minutes
August 30th, 2010
at 3:52 pm
EWWWWWW that is NOT RIGHT!
August 30th, 2010
at 3:54 pm
I’m not sure what to say to this…
But suggestive photographs with your mother?
That’s always a fun Sunday afternoon!
August 30th, 2010
at 3:56 pm
Ew!
August 30th, 2010
at 4:03 pm
i too was a little unsure what to think of this, regardless of the story lynn has aged well and paolo is getting better and better.
August 30th, 2010
at 4:14 pm
This popped up on Facebook; my jury is out on this one…
August 30th, 2010
at 4:28 pm
what the heck!!!! can anyone please explain what the F is this all about. i’m a liberal person who can handle lots of ‘weired’ arty stuff that my freinds who’re not in fashion industry think insane, but this is just sick, and wrong on so many levels! i’m sorry but no no no no noooooo!!!!
August 30th, 2010
at 4:33 pm
The images leave so much room for interpretation and subtext, which I think is brilliant. I personally think the images are beautiful.
August 30th, 2010
at 4:43 pm
Beautiful the raw and rare intimacy that does truly exist exposed
August 30th, 2010
at 5:11 pm
I can agree about not wanting to see Moms naked..but..
this is a beautiful editorial and must be a very close mother and son…
also..we all came from a woman right! a lil moms nudity aint that bad!
http://www.throughjuleslens.blogspot.com
August 30th, 2010
at 5:18 pm
Sorry, but this is just plain sick. This editorial makes no difference except for its sick content. A VIRTURE of talented people that’s what makes difference in the creative expression.
August 30th, 2010
at 5:51 pm
Love her getting back into her Lindbergh drag. Fierce
August 30th, 2010
at 6:18 pm
fashion is supposed to be provocative, no matter what the subject is. The third pic bothers me because i´ve seen that a thousand time in lindbergh portraits of models – im saying Linda Evangelista, for those who do remember those pictures from decades ago.
the rest is just fine, not even close to groundbreaking.
August 30th, 2010
at 6:27 pm
I can’t believe people are judging the ordinary fact that a mother and a son are working together in an editorial with nudity. He is not sticking a finger up her vagina, licking her nipples or whatsoever, he’s just looking at her eyes. He even feels deeply identified with that beautiful woman more than with a man and this doesn’t mean he’s gay, it just shows how determinately strong the bond mother&son is.
August 30th, 2010
at 7:06 pm
Call me old fashioned, but there is absolutely no need for a mother to take her clothes off in front of her adult son. I don’t care what anyone says, the last shot does suggest something vey sexual. She is wearing nothing but a thong and a blonde wig while she is caressing her nipple. I have no problem with nudity and sex, but this crosses the line. How many of you would feel okay doing a shoot like this with your mother?
August 30th, 2010
at 7:23 pm
I think that’s kinda weird
August 30th, 2010
at 7:48 pm
I love this edit. It looks like the photographer took stills from the Lgbt canadian film “Les Feluettes” between the gay son and mentally disturbed mother. The dynamic between the two was nothing short of heartbreaking and disturbing, which this edit has captured perfectly.
August 30th, 2010
at 8:08 pm
this is so beautiful
August 30th, 2010
at 8:12 pm
the story is a fantasy tale about a stripper and her son
August 30th, 2010
at 8:18 pm
i REALLY to see the art in this… but i just can’t. my comfort level was destroyed in viewing this.
August 30th, 2010
at 8:21 pm
eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww… no way… i will not see my mother naked in front of me… even they pay me much!!!eeeewwwwwwwwwwwww
August 30th, 2010
at 9:52 pm
Josh you are wrong, the blonde woman is not Lynne with a wig she’s a totally different person.
This pictures are pure genius.
August 30th, 2010
at 10:05 pm
BEAUTIFUUUUUUL, AMAAAAZING, GENIUUUUUSS !!!
August 30th, 2010
at 10:34 pm
Hate to say it, but this is disturbing, but I guess this is what fashion and art is about; to push boundaries that the mainstream are not ready to accept…
And, wow, shocking resemblance between the mother and son!
http://williscrazy.blogspot.com
August 30th, 2010
at 11:26 pm
I am in love with this story
thank u models.com
August 31st, 2010
at 12:16 am
Janelle please don’t scare me.. hehe :S
August 31st, 2010
at 1:16 am
this is absolutely beautiful – artfully shot, and professionally stated. The boy and his mother look AMAZING – this is what an actual fashion story should be
August 31st, 2010
at 1:54 am
one day you guys will count yourselves lucky when your adult son bathes you because you are unable to do it yourself. how old do you have to be for this to be appropriate?
August 31st, 2010
at 7:03 am
Yeah, I have to agree but I still find it uncomfortable looking at a photo of a mother nude in front of her adult son. Everything else is OK. Not extremely captivated by any of it but it’s OK.
http://calvinshow.blogspot.com
August 31st, 2010
at 7:57 am
This just shows that 90% of the people who comment on these posts are annoying, small minded rednecks from middle america.
Your mother probably works in kmart and voted for Bush, and you buy teen vogue and watch The Hills. This does not qualify you to have a valid opinion on someone else’s art work.
FFS, she gave birth to that boy! It’s totally normal for her to be nude in front of him. There is no suggestion that they are fucking.
You should all leave your sanitized, sterile country and go to Europe where nudity is common place. Where people would not bat an eye at a mother being topless in front of her son.
Or just keep your small minded opinions to yourself.
Thanks all..
August 31st, 2010
at 9:19 am
this is a bit creepy
August 31st, 2010
at 9:33 am
After reading the description given I have much greater appreciation for the images . This is a fine story and the style of the photographs are beautiful
August 31st, 2010
at 9:42 am
hehe Janelle, I love the way Scarlett Johansson materialize popcorn in her hand and eat it continuously – and doesn’t get fatter! I’d like to know how to do that in real life…
Relation with nudity is and I guess will always be (right or wrong) kind of controversial – once more with a mother.
Btw: yeeep, in Europe people are so smart and clever, don’t vote for Bush (wait: is Berlusconi in Italy that much better? mmm… *_*’) and don’t care so much about nudity… nooo, wait, I DON’T THINK SO!
My personal opinion: eyes in eyes, the caress, her body language – I simply find bath shot pretty intimate…
PS and no, I don’t like so much when people here get too much personal and tend to offend others, not at all… the key of any discussion should be: BEING CONSTRUCTIVE. Well, I hope and wish so…
http://www.isthisitmodelsreview.com/
August 31st, 2010
at 9:47 am
and sorry, I was forgetting it, just for the record – better underline that: THE BLONDE ONE IS ANOTHER WOMAN…
August 31st, 2010
at 10:45 am
Your mother probably works in kmart and voted for Bush, and you buy teen vogue and watch The Hills. This does not qualify you to have a valid opinion on someone else’s art work.
You go Zoe!!! This is the most amazing comment ive ever read!!!
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Since when small minded people have the right to judge what is or isnt art??… With the internet everyone thinks can be art critic witch is ridicule
Faena did an amazzing JOB, Bravo!!!
ps who is the stylist of this story???
August 31st, 2010
at 11:53 am
Whatever VMan wants to claim, there is subtext. This doesn’t exist in a bubble and they know we are going to bring to it history and references. To say there is no subtext is ridiculous in my opinion and they are probably backtracking.
August 31st, 2010
at 12:06 pm
There are many contexts that can be read into this. You can choose to see an incestuous relationship or a family that is not inhibited by nudity. Culturally it smacks most Americans in the face but in many other countries it wouldn’t be a threat.
August 31st, 2010
at 12:07 pm
If it doesn’t have subtext then it isn’t art.
Without subtext it might as well just be a commercial.
August 31st, 2010
at 12:24 pm
There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex
You may have heard about his odd complex
His name appears in Freud’s index, cause he
LOVED HIS MOTHERRR.
August 31st, 2010
at 12:34 pm
tarzan: “Since when small minded people have the right to judge what is or isnt art??… With the internet everyone thinks can be art critic witch is ridicule”
Well… I lived in the USA for many years and some people over there didn´t have another option than taking a retail job at a Kmart and that didn’t converted them into small minded people, many of them were artists, authors, photographers etc. Reading some stupid comments here I can witness more misery than in a retail employee’s pocket. Some posters should’ve never left the jungle.
August 31st, 2010
at 12:40 pm
they meant incest is not the subtext when u see the full story
August 31st, 2010
at 1:11 pm
I would say judging from the posts here, the photographer has succeeded in their mission. After all the idea is to view and discuss the art right? no matter how close minded the comments are.
GREAT JOB!
August 31st, 2010
at 6:39 pm
lili says:
August 31st, 2010
at 12:34 pm
Thank you Lily, the KMart comment was writen by Zoe… Witch is Amazing!!! True since when reading Teen Vogue and watching The Hills make you an art critic. Zoe upstairs was very clear about this topic…
If my comment was misery or stupid,then why you read it??
Seeing Lynn and Paolo,remind me that there is mother and son – Love – between them… Many fucktards forget what is the word LOVE.Thats because seeing Linda Hogan or cougar world around the world…Or the porn half his age thing going on…
When your parents get older you help them bath…Thats what people do in Europe…
Janele answer my queston who is the stylist of this story?
August 31st, 2010
at 8:24 pm
To whom it may concern:
If you pretend to be an art critic first you need to learn how to write a complete sentence correctly. It spells WHICH not WITCH you funny guy from the jungle, hahaha.
September 1st, 2010
at 1:15 am
I think this is a great story! I felt something from looking at these images, which is rare these days. Fashion photography has become so contrived. Great job. This is art.
If it makes you feel uneasy, then there is a part of you that can identify or is scare of this. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t have any reaction.
September 1st, 2010
at 2:11 am
Tarzan the ape man. LOL!