Same but different?

Joerg posted today about a critic calling a photographer's series "irrelevant and a calculated provocation." I'm not sure I entirely agree with that assessment (and besides, isn't a great deal of art a calculated provocation?), but she may have gone a bit far with this image's similarity to one of my favorite (and a quite well known) Tierney Gearon images:


Copyright Tierney Gearon

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Copyright Katharina Bosse