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Nice set of legs… Britain by Cadillac, now on view at Somerset House, London feature iconic fashion photographer’s Guy Bourdin’s 1979 seminal road trip of Britain to shoot an advertising campaign for Charles Jourdan. Bourdin dispensed with the use of a model employing a pair of mannequin legs, cut off just below the knee. “She” is only a hint of a woman, and yet in each situation in which Bourdin placed her she becomes a complete character within a story, told around many iconic British landmarks such as a Brighton seafront, an English rose garden, a taxi rank and Battersea Power Station. You just have to love the brilliance of Bourdin…
