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The Line of Beauty
by Joshua Rubin
Something about Josh Rubin's photographs of women groping themselves and each other reminds me of those Cosmopolitan covers from the 1980s, when models wearing shiny black knee-high boots while posing in front of a white backdrop in high-contrast monochrome under a hot-pink logo was briefly in. Of course, this Cosmo shoot has gone fantastically awry, scandalizing shoppers in supermarket check-out aisles everywhere. After wrapping his models in strap-ons and pulling panties over their heads, Rubin criss-crosses them with black lines and throws them into negative, making you extra conscious of the photograph itself. "It's like painting leaves brush strokes, sculpture has chisel marks," says Rubin. "I leave lines." — Will Doig