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Last night artist Marilyn Minter held a Q&A at NYC's Soho House to discuss her new book, Marilyn Minter (left), which is a retrospective of her career that spans nearly four decades. The painter/photographer — whose work in the '80s and early '90s, based on pornographic imagery, earned her the "bad feminist" stamp from the second wavers, and made her a trailblazer for the pro-sex third wavers — discussed the advertising industry and her disdain for airbrushing. Minter recently had some not-so-great experience with the former. She shot an ad campaign for Tom Ford's line of fragrances, which featured the sweat-drenched designer himself, but, at the eleventh hour, the powers that be ditched Minter's photos and hired Terry Richardson to photograph the product placed between a pair of fake tits and on a woman's crotch. While she's certainly not a stranger to provocative imagery, Minter said she has no interest in PhotoShopping it into perfection, opining, "Perfection is a flaw." After the jump, her original Tom Ford ad, photos of her mom, and a blow job painting. More »
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