Because even images as provocative as Dsquared's new ad campaign featuring Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista, conceptually, are racializing. In a clever Nickolas Muray meets Robert Mapplethorpe kind of way, bodies in these photographs become markers of beauty and race, while contention between the two colored/marked bodies creates visual interest but demarcates difference. Dsquared ads are normally shot in black and white photography... perhaps the creative directors decided to take "black" and "white" to another level. You can check out the ad campaign at www.dsquared2.com.
