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September 19, 2006
SLAM BAM THANK YOU GLAM
A writer friend with a nose for cultural perversity wonders whether Vogue Italia had caught our attention, apropos yesterday's item. "The latest issue threads the needle of glam and violence quite nicely," he says. "Check out Steven Meisel's photo shoot mixing supermodels and terrorists."
So we did, and this is what else we saw:
"Personally, I dig it," our friend adds. "Then again, I wrote a text predicting that in the future terrorists may well have groupies -- so you know where I'm coming from." And if you don't know, you might try "Terror Groupies" in Necrophilia Variations.
Posted by jherman at September 19, 2006 10:28 AM

![Click to enlarge and see the entire 'State of Emergency' photo spread. [Photo copyright 2006 by Steven Meisel]](http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/archives/meisel2.jpg)
![Click to enlarge and see the entire 'State of Emergency' photo spread. [Photo copyright 2006 by Steven Meisel]](http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/archives/meisel3.jpg)
![A TALENT FOR TROUBLE [Da Capo Press]](http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/talent%20paperback%20cover%20100.jpg)