Maui My Way: Tahitian Beauties

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MAUI MY WAY: TAHITIAN BEAUTIES LUCIEN GAUTHIER

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What moment from the ‘Maui My Way’ trip still makes you laugh?
I showed up with a three ring binder of inspiration images from TAHITIAN BEAUTIES by Lucien Gauthier. I suppose I thought I was going to encounter early 20th century Polynesian women in sumptuous landscapes. Here I was romanticizing another photo-art book. Leftover habits from a life in the fashion world. The fetishization of peaceful paradise Edens culled from the travel narratives of Colonial European explorers. Yikes.

It’s good to laugh at oneself.

July 2012