"Extraordinary bad taste" - Nazi camp site in nude photos

[Ian David]

dpa German Press Agency
Published: Sunday February 18, 2007


Vienna- Accusations of "extraordinary bad taste" were
levelled Sunday after details emerged of an Austrian designer
snapping nude photos at a former Nazi concentration camp.
Gudrun Geiblinger, an up-and-coming poster designer, used the
memorial site at the former Mauthausen death camp as backdrop for
nude photos of herself, the news magazine Profil wrote in its latest
edition.

The photos, shot in the late 1990s, show Geiblinger naked, wearing
only white stockings and high heels, in sensual poses in front of a
camp watchtower and hugging a sculpture depicting a dying soldier.

Profil quoted Geiblinger, among whose clients are the Austrian
army, Siemens and the Austrian Federal Railways, as saying the photos
were an "artistic thought experiment."

She justified the photoshoot by saying she worked on a project at
an art school, doing a poster series for Amnesty International and
the photos were used for "brainstorming." Prison walls, barbed wire
and a naked woman - those images were intended to "provoke", she said

"By coincidence" she discovered Mauthausen had what she needed. "I
did not want Mauthausen as such, what I needed was a prison,"
Geiblinger said. However, the provocative project was never realized.

More:
http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/_Extraordinary_bad_taste_Nazi_camp__02182007.html

[leftynyc]

1. An "artistic art experiment"????

This artist is a moron.