Vanda B: ‘Rio’ by Catherine
It is a rather simple piece of furniture. A red leather side chair with a chrome steel base. Its lines are clean and angular, very much in the modern idiom. But in Catherine’s “Rio” this piece of furniture becomes a platform, a stage, and very nearly a gymnastic apparatus!
The model, Vanda B, never once leaves the chair. She moves around on it, certainly. She adjusts and alters her position in a multitude of ways, almost as if her photographer has dared her to invent as many different poses as she can possibly imagine.
The result is not only a huge variety of poses, but also a huge number of distinctly different images. And that variety ranges from demure and appealing headshots to bold and unashamedly sexual postures. As plainly inviting as the more explicit images are, if I could pick but one image from the series, I would have to choose #0107, an elegant and stylish pin-up. I give this set a standing ovation!
