Anja Rubik Plays Medusa, Lensed By Richard Bush For Vogue Russia July 2013
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Model Anja Rubik plays ‘Medusa the Gorgone’, one of a trio of three powerful, winged daemons in Greek mythology. “The three Gorgones were depicted in ancient Greek vase painting and sculpture as winged women with broad round heads, serpentine locks of hair, large staring eyes, wide mouths, the tusks of swine, lolling tongues, flared nostrils, and sometimes short coarse beards. Medousa was humanised in late classical art with the face of a beautiful woman. In mosaic art her full face was wreathed around with coiling snakes and adorned with a pair of small wings sprouting from the brow. “
Sarah Richardson chooses strong woman, no-nonsense silhouettes for this Vogue Russia July editorial, lensed by Richard Bush.
