Comments on: Madonna by Steven Meisel – Commercial Work – Image Of The Year

By: khosrow

khosrow — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:58:11 +0000

Excuse me the for the typing error, I meant to say that the visual concepts of this site are not too ‘loud’ but very nice and cool.

Nowadays many websites have become too bright for their own good, too many things at the same time. Not enough space, not enough room for fan input and discussions.

Unlike Madonna, many artist are afraid of discussions. Madonna and her fans invite discussions. Madonna and her fans are NOT ASHAMED to express themselves.

By: khosrow

khosrow — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:43:07 +0000

Thanks for the explanation Pera, If you are responsible for this site, I must say you are doing a great job. I like the mix on this site. Some videos, some news, some factual reports, some photos some, some rumours, some discussions. This is a lively well balanced Madonna site. I also like its visual clean and simple concept. The base colours are not too laud. It has a cool effect.

Keep up the good work.

By: jay

jay — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:43:39 +0000

people say about madonna’s obssesion of looking younger ….i think she does care about her face and body like any other normal woman.my mother,my aunt both had facialjob but are they obssesed?no.
example: mel gibson…..he’s tummy and have deep lines on his face and people still think he’s atractive….but i saw some pics of sharon stone ,still glorious for her age,at the cannes and the comments were: she is aging like a bowl of fruits….
society is always this way with women…
about the photoshop EVERY magazine even newspaper use it…i think vanity fair exagerated but still the concept is magnificent..who else in the show business could do this kind of phOtograft….yeap that’s why she embraced the globe as if to say…I MAKE THIS SHIT GO AROUND….

By: Pera

Pera — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:21:31 +0000

I couldn’t find a solution to make all times convert to everyone’s local time. Displayed time is the local time on server, which is CST (UTC-6 or CET-7). I could change all times to CET but then everyone outside that zone would also get wrong time.

By: khosrow

khosrow — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:28:31 +0000

I don’t know how these hours are counted and registered, but the registered times of my posts are not correct. I have only been surfing and typing these comments for the past 45 minutes and right now, it is 11.15 am central European time zone.

Greetings to all Madonna admirers of all ages, sexes, sizes, colours and classes. Have yourself a sticky hot and sweat summer. Don’t sit there like silly boy/ girl, if you wait too long, it will be too late,,,,,

Your voice, your choice,,,,,,,,

By: khosrow

khosrow — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:19:35 +0000

By the way, doesn’t matter what Madonna does, as always, some people will be ready to criticise her. They criticise her if she runs down the road in her sweatpants, with messy hair and wearing no make up. They also criticise her when she lives up to her name.
Oh well, we Madonna admirers don’t care what others think. We still think she is UNASHAMED and MADGICAL. It is great that she can see life and live life through different perspectives(be the glamour and club goddess and have her foot solid on the normal/ ghetto ground)

Far more than love, we continue to admire her.

Madonna rules. Admit it.

By: khosrow

khosrow — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:05:50 +0000

Madonna gives great (inner)face. That is why her photos are so Madgical. Those photographers are extraordinary too because they managed to capture Madonna’s inner face (her character/ her state of mind) in their photographs. It was not the Photoshop.

I once saw an interview with Mario Testino at work. He said that he didn’t like to do much to a photo, because if the photo authentically and genuinely works, it needs little to no retouching.

I think those photographers and Madonna have managed to push forward the art of photographic style and communication.

By: khosrow

khosrow — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:37:59 +0000

Madonna lives (in) the photos and communicates with them too. I mean her photographs taken by Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino and Steven Meisel are absolute best modern and postmodern iconological photos ever made. Madonna is a beautiful person. But her beauty is not just skin-deep. She is extraordinary from inside. That is where her looks really begin from. There are plenty of new plastic starlest out there who also have access to make up and cosmetic surgery. But they just can’t look as amazing as Madonna because they don’t have the inner beauty to sustain them. Madonna feels and knows that she is the queen of universe and she manages to exhbit that throgh her photos as well her philosophy in life: you are what you believe you are. Madonna wears her state of mind at the time, everytime she is photographed.

Just look at the true blue, like a virgin and ray of light album covers. As do Hard Candy album cover and this magazine cover. They are proof of the fact that it is still very much Madonna’s material world. They all say something. Just like Madonna herself, her photos represent the time and the culture, yet at the same time they also trenscend the time and culture. Just like Madonna, her phtos too cross the borderlines.

God save Madonna the Material Goddess.

I am going to see her in Germany or Belgium depending on where I can get the best ticket. I want to be in the front row when she sings Candy Shop and Beat Goes On.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:37:32 +0000

I agree that Madonna looks beyond gorgeous at 50 (or any age) but that last Vanity Fair spread was really unfortunate with the obvious retouching. She looks like a mannequin. BUT, she’s Madonna and can do as she pleases. I’m just sorry she has succumb to the mindset that everyone has to look young in order to be viable. One of the many things I’ve loved about M is her groundedness and apparent refusal to give in to societal pressures. I thought her sugar was raw – not Photoshopped!

By: goodintentions09

goodintentions09 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:46:21 +0000

I THINK THE TWO PICS FROM THIS SHOOT ARE GREAT. THE OTHER PICS FROM THE SAME SHOOT ARE EQUALLY AS STUNNING. I DO FIND IT UNLIKELY THAT A PHOTOGRAPHER OF THAT STATURE AND NOTORIETY OR M HERSELF WOULD GO THE DISTANCE TO USE “PHOTOSHOP” TO IMPROVE HER WHOLE FACE AND BODY…THE WOMAN LOOKS GREAT,REGARDLESS.