Steven Meisel

Steven Meisel is again another fashion photographer  which has inspired me to do similar themes as him. For instance, he takes images of different era's of different beautiful women.
Within this first image, Meisel seemed as if he's taken this "60's" inspired woman to portray smoking. As you can see, the female in this image is very classical and elegant which in the 60's women were expected to look. The model looks as if she has no remorse about the smoking, that she's very open to it.
The hand below her chin makes us look at the object of the image which is the cigarette.
The triangle created by the bend in the elbow makes us look to the fur on her body. The fur suggests that she's wealthy and rich because back then, wearing animal fur seemed a mark of the well off.
In this image, the model is very centred. I think this is because the photographer wanted us as an audience to keep our eyes towards the model, but more so focussed on the cigarette in her mouth.
The photo is kept black and white to not only give this ancient feel towards it, but to also keep the image elegant. In this image, there isn't many black areas contrasting against the black because I think it's trying to connote smoking in a positive way in a sense.