The Friday Afternoon Challenge returns with: GLAM Girls!
Here are some swanky women that appear in photographs and paint. You must identify the artist who photographed/painted them. (Don’t worry, you guys get a Glam challenge all your own next month!)
And...let’s not cheat, m‘kay?
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and, as a feminist, I do not dismiss it. I probably should have put my title to this Challenge in quotation marks because using "girls" for women is not something I would usually do.
but you are not the taliban for expressing your concern, IMO. You have a very valid point of view. I look at the history of art as an amateur and I think "How can a feminist approve of this?" and it bothers me. I think that female art historians have acknowledged the sexism as an artifact of the artists' day and moved on from there.
To me, great art isn't one thing only. There are places in it that I diverge from the artist's vision (which, in the case of women, is often deformed at worst, limited at best). So I look to other facets to see the aesthetic of the work. That involves a lot of things and I won't bore you with what Ithink they are.
Suffice to say that my feminism and my love of art have somehow been reconciled, but I am open to argument and persuasion. I am old but not too old to change my mind on things...
Thank you for giving us your viewpoint on my Challenge! I appreciate your time and your thoughtfulness. 
another look at the photo of Marion Cotillard, #2, by Peter Lindbergh. Maybe it is too explicit in that pose. "Glamor" in most of the other ones has some irony built in. The Lindbergh is to me lovely because she is such a lovely actress and I know her from "Midnight in Paris," which I loved (OK, I broke my rule against ever seeing another Woody Allen movie after the affair with his stepdaughter). I thought she'd be good for this because of her wildly beautiful face. But maybe that knee is too much. I don't know, really...
Good grief, those ankles must be driving men mad in the first shot!!!
This might be Taliban porn, but in the real world, they're just lovely pictures.
I have two prints of two other painting by her and her style is unmistakeable.
Here's a photo of her:
