As a slice of late 70's early 80's life in NYC
The cars, the buses the clothes, the lack of tech (everything is analog, and no phones/tablets/bluetooth/wifi)
It works as a time capsule of a bygone era, when there were newsstands and 100's of magazines, and plenty of work for models and photographers and support staff (lights, wardrobe, makeup, gaffers) and dozens of model agencies in NYC. Now that fashion magazines with fashions ads and newsstands at every corner are long in the past, these jobs don't exist anymore.
Besides that these various jobs around models and fashion models (or used to) exist, and they revolve around repetitive tasks, there's not much beyond that in this doc.
I wish it were more like the Wiseman's other docs, where you can determine who these people were (especially the models, who all come off as very vapid pretty faces), and how well they were actually doing their jobs. I don't know who was good or bad at their job, unlike his other docs I've seen. I'd love to know something at stake for the "perfect" shot or cover vs. Just good enough. What a "perfect" image meant to magazine sales or ad revenue.
Overall a disappointment, seeing how some of his earlier work I've seen are darn near perfect.
It works as a time capsule of a bygone era, when there were newsstands and 100's of magazines, and plenty of work for models and photographers and support staff (lights, wardrobe, makeup, gaffers) and dozens of model agencies in NYC. Now that fashion magazines with fashions ads and newsstands at every corner are long in the past, these jobs don't exist anymore.
Besides that these various jobs around models and fashion models (or used to) exist, and they revolve around repetitive tasks, there's not much beyond that in this doc.
I wish it were more like the Wiseman's other docs, where you can determine who these people were (especially the models, who all come off as very vapid pretty faces), and how well they were actually doing their jobs. I don't know who was good or bad at their job, unlike his other docs I've seen. I'd love to know something at stake for the "perfect" shot or cover vs. Just good enough. What a "perfect" image meant to magazine sales or ad revenue.
Overall a disappointment, seeing how some of his earlier work I've seen are darn near perfect.
- paullochroku
- Aug 11, 2022