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- Aine Lenihan
Aine
Lenihan
1980: Press Princess
This project is a commentary on our obsession with celebrity culture. It was in the year 1980 when the first famous picture of Diana was taken and Newspapers splashed the photo across their front pages. This image was the defining moment which changed her life forever and sparked our complete obsession over her. This project looks at the life of Diana and her symbiotic relationship with the media. It reveals defining moments in Diana’s life, where the paparazzi used her, and how she used them back. These moments inevitably lead up to her death, revealing that the villains behind the catastrophe are not only the paparazzi, but us.
We live in a celebrity obsessed society where we inflate celebrities, only to tear them down again. This project reveals how we are all caught up in this belief system that these celebrities are not humans, but are only symbols and objects for our entertainment. As our culture generates its endless images, we are fed more and more information about people who are less and less real. The style of this project is similar to that of tabloids, using bold and loud type paired with impersonal and harsh headings which are identified with celebrity obsession.
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