<div dir="ltr"><div>It seems to me that there is a perhaps slight but nonetheless significant difference between the depiction of suicide in <i>The Hours</i> (film) and this project insofar as<i> The Hours </i>attempted to portray Woolf's life and (perhaps to a lesser extent) her battle with mental issues before portraying her suicide whereas the Vice Magazine project shows readers only the moment of suicide itself. Although perhaps the Vice spread also contained some information about the authors and their lives? <br>
<br>I would argue that neither work did a very good job of portraying mental illness (particularly not when it came to Woolf herself). Unless there was a significant written component to the Vice piece that I'm not aware of, it seems to me that the Vice Magazine project uses suicide as a jumping-off point for an exploration of aesthetics (if I were to be generous) or (if I were to be less generous) as a point of provocation rather than exploring the deep and complex health issues that led these authors to suicide. <br>
<br></div>Just my two cents,<br>Illya<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Gregory Jordan Dekter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdekter@gmail.com" target="_blank">jdekter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm just wondering of those who oppose this, are you equally offended by the portrayal of the same event in "The Hours"?<div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 June 2013 15:03, Anne Margaret Daniel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniela@newschool.edu" target="_blank">daniela@newschool.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">VICE has removed the online photos, not apologizing very much ("to anyone who was hurt or offended") and stating, defensively, that their "main goal is to create artful images, with the fashion message following, rather than leading." Taken down online, but still in print. <div>
Here is the Vice statement: <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/last-words-000741-v20n6" target="_blank">http://www.vice.com/read/last-words-000741-v20n6</a><div>And here, still online at Inquisitr, is the photo of the model portraying Woolf, standing in water and holding a large stone. No words for it, really.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/793059/vices-suicide-fashion-apology/" target="_blank">http://www.inquisitr.com/793059/vices-suicide-fashion-apology/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Melanie White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:melanie.white@comcast.net" target="_blank">melanie.white@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/18/193014174/book-news-vice-draws-ire-by-staging-female-author-suicides?utm_source&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130617" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/18/193014174/book-news-vice-draws-ire-by-staging-female-author-suicides?utm_source&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130617</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Someone said this has been taken down now. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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