I seem to like photographing mannequins.  I had thought for a while that I liked doing that because I am fascinated by fashion and fashion magazines and in my everyday duties, this is not what I encounter.  Mannequins are inherently, obviously easy to photograph.  They don’t move, they don’t complain and they can certainly stand still for a very long time.  In other words, perfect.

However, today it struck me, what the real reason I like mannequins is that I see them as these extremely, above average beautiful people trapped in glass, not able to move or communicate.  They are stuck, like caged animals.  I must be having some kind of Mad Men withdrawal, but Betty Draper reminds me of a mannequin trapped in a glass box.

Hey and of course most of the time, the clothes they are advertising, I could not afford them if I sold major internal organs.  Hence I take their photo:

Not to mention this one.  Sorry for the blatant advertising, but doesn’t she look extremely trapped: