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Slovakian Idols
by Jano Horak
These women are giantesses. All of them seem to be to be huge somehow — their eyes bulging, their backs like freeways. One is holding a stone cat that looks petrified to be trapped in the clutch of the leviathan behind it.
When Attack of the 50 Foot Woman was released in 1958, the tagline on the posters read, "See a female colossus . . . her mountainous torso, skyscraper limbs, giant desires!" Exactly. Some men fear women tall, broad-shouldered women for the same reason they thrill to them — because they look like they could snap you like a wishbone. Though the women in these photos aren't actually especially enormous in real life (though most of them do seem to be taller than average), Jano Horak, their thirty-one-year-old Slovakian photographer, has photographed them in a way that makes them appear imposing. "I'm engaged in provocative glamour," he writes in his artist's statement. Consider us provoked. — Will Doig
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