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Photography: Amy Spencer’s Female American Pop Icons

By · On March 5, 2009

Lindsay Lohan as Madonna

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I love the photographs of female American Pop Icons featured in Glamour’s current issue. These amazing photographs were taken by Amy Spencer who shot today’s young starlets as the pop icons of the past and present of “female risk takers, rule breakers and style makers here”.

Paula Patton as Billie Holiday

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Odette Yustman, Spencer Grammer, Rumer Willis as The Women of Woodstock

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Hayden Panettiere as Amelia Earhart

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Emma Roberts as Audrey Hepburn

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Emma Stone as Carrie Bradshaw

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Chanel Iman as Althea Gibson

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Elisha Cuthbert as Brandi Chastain

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Camilla Belle as Mary Tyler Moore

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America Ferrera as Dolores Huerta

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Alicia Keys as First Lady Michelle Obama

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Alexis Bledel as Rosie the Riveter

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Source: Amy Spencer (via Glamour Magazine)

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  • Awesome….

  • this is very cool

  • Nice, but the heels are too high and the women are too skinny to be accurate subjects. Rosie the Riveter is about female strength and power and this model has zero muscle mass.

  • Nice, but the heels are too high and the women are too skinny to be accurate subjects. Rosie the Riveter is about female strength and power and this model has zero muscle mass.

  • I agree with Judy- most of the woman they are supposed to be were not this rail thin, and Rosie is supposed to represent strength, but Bledel, pretty as she is, just doesn’t show that.

    That said, its still a nice, fun collection of photos to look at. They did inspire me to want to look for images of the original icons.

  • Anonymous

    This project I’m sure is depicting strong women today as women were then.  It’s not focusing on how they’re “too skinny to be accurate subjects”, it’s showing how women still continue to revolutionize not only America but the world. Perhaps Biedel is a tad bit smaller than the original Rosie the Riveter but the message still stands, “We are women, hear us roar.” and “Whatever you can do I can do better.”
    And instead of being insecure about ourselves because other women are skinnier, embrace it.

  • Anonymous

    This project I’m sure is depicting strong women today as women were then.  It’s not focusing on how they’re “too skinny to be accurate subjects”, it’s showing how women still continue to revolutionize not only America but the world. Perhaps Biedel is a tad bit smaller than the original Rosie the Riveter but the message still stands, “We are women, hear us roar.” and “Whatever you can do I can do better.”
    And instead of being insecure about ourselves because other women are skinnier, embrace it.

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