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Vice Magazine impact on photography

Uno as Ideas

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Aug|15|2008

I’ve never really thought about it.

It’s no coincidence that American Apparel’s often controversial advertising campaigns imitate the Vice look, nor that Vice photographer Terry Richardson is the principal photographer for Uniqlo’s in-house magazine, Paper. His style has countless amateur copycats worldwide, whose photos have found a home on fast-growing photo-sharing websites such as Flickr and MySpace. Snapping away at a party in Portland, Oregon, or in Harajuku, Tokyo, a global scenester can disseminate their local style worldwide before sunrise.

Meet the global scenester: He’s hip. He’s cool. He’s everywhere - Features, Fashion - The Independent

The Vice photography style has influenced so many styles of photography it’s crazy. Almost all of the street fashion, party pics.

Here I am thinking, dang those local street-fashion photography kids We-Are-Awesome are copying The Cobrasnake. But if I knew my sociological roots better, I’d know that Cobrasnake is a copy of Vice.

Some Cobrasnake links:

Some links for We Are Awesome

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