Today I would like to take liberty with an essay by John Berger, Ways of Seeing by re-appropriating his idea of vanity as expressed in painting and transfer it to photography;" You have photographed a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you published her photograph and entitled it Kate Middleton, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure".

     The question is for who's pleasure was this photograph taken, given the slumping European economy does the consumer have a desire for this form of consumption or is it driven by another element? The answer to this question might be found in the accompanying video.

    Photographer Renee Cox, offers not only a re-appropriation of a classic nude but is both author and subject of the "gaze".