MAC Fall 09 as seen by Marilyn Minter, fotograf

Den andra delen i MACs kollektion Makeup Art Cosmetics består av reflects och pigment och är signeradfotografen Marilyn Minter.

Marilyn Minter, equally at home in art and fashion, has a penchant for iridescence that made her a perfect candidate for M·A·C’s glitter pigments, putting them to utterly seductive use. Minter’s erotic imagery zooms in on a succulently wet, red lip, a dappled, sequined eye, or a silverized stiletto splashing in the mud. The Whitney Biennial Artist says she’s “Never met a model who actually thinks she’s beautiful,” and that observation goes a long way to explain how she connects to what M·A·C wants to say about all-inclusiveness – we’re ALL beautiful sometimes. Pigments in Push the Edge and Copper or Gold Glitter have the power to make anyone feel like they WILL be seen – and desired.

Reflects Glitter DKK 180 / SEK 220 / NOK 190

• Reflects Copper Sparkling Saffron
• Reflects Rust Sparkling warm red

Glitter DKK 180 / SEK 220 / NOK 190

• Gold Sparkling chunky gold
• Fuchsia Sparkling fuchsia

Pigment DKK 180 / SEK 220 / NOK 190

• Cocomotion Dirty gold bronze with gold pearl
• Brash & Bold Bright magenta
• Heritage Rouge Dirty brown plum
• Push the Edge Deep bright purple with pearl

Gloss Texture DKK 160 / SEK 200 / NOK 170

• Clear Gloss Clear

Cocomotion är en riktig klassiker då det kommer till pigment och jag kan varmt rekommendera denna smutsiga bronsfärg med guldinslag. Heritage Rouge är mer röd än vad som syns på min hand här på bilden, tjusig den med. Reflects och Glitter är jag inte så förtjust i överlag, men vet att många av er gillar i synnerhet reflects då de är kul att blanda med läppglans – och ändamålsenligt nog säljs även MAC gloss texture tillsammans med denna kollektion. Så get blending.

Intervju med Marilyn Minter som MAC skickade ut tillsammans med pressreleasen

Linda Yablonsky: What attracted you to M·A·C’s Make-Up Art Cosmetics collection?
Marilyn Minter: The glamour industry is the central source for my art. I feed off it like a parasite! They need my eye; I need everything else from them.

Q: Especially the glitter eye shadow! Or was it the lipstick?
A: I did ask for lipstick but mostly to complement the eye makeup for the photograph. But I do wear blush and lipstick ninety percent of the time.

Q: You’re primarily a painter who works from photographs. Did you paint your model’s makeup for the M·A·C shoot too?
A: I work with a professional makeup artist named Rosina Harris and she applied the makeup perfectly. Then I went in and messed it up – sprayed it with water and glycerin. I don’t like to retouch or clean up freckles or sweat. I like things to be gritty. Retouched models don’t look human. Every place I work commercially they airbrush everything. M·A·C doesn’t do that. That’s why I like M·A·C.

Q: You had the whole range of glitter pigments for fall. How did you decide on this particular pink for your photo?
A: We played around to see what would work. We also tried different colours on each eye.

Q: You equate freckles with beauty?
A: Oh, yeah. I even think pimples are beautiful. I don’t see them as disgusting. They’re human.

Q: What did you mean when you said you went in and messed things up?
A: I exaggerate the look a bit. If the makeup artist puts on a lot of mascara, I add a bit more. I recently shot Julianne Moore, who has freckles that have faded or are always airbrushed out. I penciled them in more. If someone has a bit of mustache, I like to show it. I like to show things starting to fall apart.

Q: Your photograph for M·A·C is an extremely close close-up image of the model’s eye. Did you shoot it that way or crop the photo?
A: I never crop. I shoot everything very close with a macro lens, and never use the whole of anything.

Q: How close can you get?
A: I shoot a foot or two away from the model’s face, which means that when I look through the lens I get right into the pores. Close-ups are my specialty. They’re what I love. When you get that close, you lose all the outside information. You can just look.

Q: What do you think glamour is?
A: It’s relative. A fantasy of what everyone believes someone else is having but no one is really living. Makeup does start running, the heel of your shoe can really break, and your hem can come undone. You really only get a few hours when everything falls perfectly into place. The Duchess of Windsor had the soles of her shoes polished. That’s obsessive. It’s not real. Life is messy!

Q: Yet your photos are so glamorous.
A: It’s the universal eye – a little messed up.

Q: Your paintings are based on digital combinations of your photographs, which you paint in enamel on aluminum, blending it with your fingers – the way a makeup artist does on a face.
A: It’s the only way to do it.