Sunday, June 21, 2020

"Umbilicus" by photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas (Speak Magazine 1996)

 Fall 1996Another relaunch, another controversial cover, another bad issue. The infamous belly button, the work of photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas, caused the issue to be immediately returned by hundreds of distributors and newsstands. The image was most commonly called "disturbing," which is exactly why we chose it. To date, this is Speak's worst-selling issue.

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In 1996 my project Umbilicus was featured on the cover of the cutting edge culture magazine called Speak, with graphic design by the brilliant Martin Venesky.

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