The case of Gwyneth Paltrow, a UCSB girl

On this page I've reproduced some images from a Gwyneth Paltrow web site. Here, photography is the medium that orchestrates the spectator's approach, desire and exclusion...what is the rhetoric of each image? that is, how does it position you and invite you to respond?

The closer the media takes you toward her, the further recedes...

A clip from Shakespeare in Love: "It is a new world"

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