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Alex Remnick

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Alex Remnick

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……….She’s a bad bitch. A broken-glass, rock and roll, I-don’t-give-a-rat’s ass type, who knows all of the best parties and has gotten thrown out of all of them. All the girls hate her; all the guys want to get with her. She hangs out in seedy dives and knows that guy in that band you like. She’s always backstage but she never has a wristband.

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Alex Remnick

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This is the persona that I tried to create in this series of pictures. I tried to steer away from the stereotypical fashion world. Instead, I abided by one of the key rules of modern hipness: thrift or bust. All of the clothing was either purchased at the Salvation Army or were owned by the amateur model, Jennifer Cole. I was inspired by the styles of urban nightlife photographers, such as Nicky Digital, The Cobrasnake, and especially Merlin Bronques and his Urban Pinup spreads. For this particular series, Bronques goes to parties and finds interesting and exotic party-goers who agree to collaborate in erotic or fashionable photo shoots. This was the back story that I chose to give to this shoot.

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Alex Remnick

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Alex Remnick

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I chose to create split-screen images because I wanted to add a sense of chaos to the images and capture the whirlwind of a blackout night out. Sometimes, the split screen denotes the passage of time, sometimes it shows multiple perspectives. In the close-up of Jennifer’s face, I wanted to allude to the dichotomy of hipness and depravity, something that is at the core of the nightlife scene. People go out all made up and dressed to the nines and come home sweaty with smeared makeup and foggy memories.

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Alex Remnick

About The Author: Alex Remnick is a senior enrolled in the College of the University of Pennsylvania. Class of 2012 – Copyright 2011