{"product_id":"9781943679010","title":"Nude Reagan","description":"\u003cbr\u003eArt. Photography. The photographs of NUDE REAGAN are discordant and grotesque, portraying changing bodies beneath the endless repetition of one mask.\u003cp\u003eFor John Brian King's most recent series, he photographed twenty-three nude models with a Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 camera in an empty Palm Springs office. Each model wore the same Ronald Reagan mask, striking any pose she liked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeliberately unsettling, these photographs depict Reagan as a demon and specter haunting the modern world. Evoking the dead conservative president, the models wear the hideous dark-eyed mask—anemic and wrinkled—and morph into unerotic, freakish wraiths. The colors of the photographs accentuate these figures' eerie qualities: the camera's unstable flash turns the bland office backdrop alternately into a mold green, a muddy gray, a brilliant white, or a dense, all-encompassing black setting. The women's shadows are sometimes starkly present, and at other times disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photographer was influenced by such disparate sources as Conrad Veidt's grim grin in \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Laughs\u003c\/em\u003e; Reagan's own frozen, Brylcreem-lathered satanic countenance; artist Maurizio Cattelan's sardonic approach to politics in art; and Ralph Eugene Meatyard's Southern Gothic photographs of masked children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spurl Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49786829570288,"sku":"9781943679010","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943679010","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}