Perhaps the strangest thing about the fashion photographer Pamela Hanson’s retrospective book “The 90s” is how much smiling goes on inside it.
Naomi Campbell wears a blond wig and flashes her pearly whites on a plush sofa at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Charlotte Rampling smiles while smoking a cigarette in the dressing room of a Jil Sander boutique in Paris. Carré Otis grins beside a dark Porsche outside an old house Ms. Hanson rented in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
Remember Ms. Otis?
She is the model, actress and onetime tabloid curiosity who appeared with her former husband, Mickey Rourke, in “Wild Orchid,” an erotic thriller known mainly for excising a very gratuitous scene in order to avoid an X rating. (The film ultimately wound up with a number of Razzie nominations.)
Anyway, the point is: Ms. Hanson’s book is the opposite of near nude and drenched in black eyeliner.
Ms. Hanson, one of the few women shooting for major fashion magazines during the 1990s, said she always saw the models less as objects and more as “co-conspirators,” people with whom she was basically capturing a lifelong parade of glamour and fun.
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