Exploitation in Art: The Case of Nijinsky and De Morgoli

Tragedy

Nick de Morgoli made a living taking pictures of icons in their decline: mental illness, tragedy, addiction, death. 
There are 1,000 reasons to hate him I imagine,  but this photo of Nijinsky is reason enough.  You can’t know who Vaslav Nijinsky was and look at this picture without feeling upset.

 Every image in this post he took in his “photo shoot” of the tragic figure; the great Russian dancer and visionary Vaslav Nijinsky; the victim of his own genius and schizophrenia; a man who suffered more than he should have. 


Not enough for de Morgoli, it seems.  Why would a photographer want photos of someone eating soup?  In a “mental institution”? They would not.  A parasite with a camera, on the other hand would take photos of a mentally ill icon in the sunset of his unfair existence. Then sell the spoils to Getty Images. 

Life was cruel enough to Vaslav Nijinsky, I think so anyway.  But there is always a Nick de Morgoli to make it worse and then profit from it.  My heart hurts looking at these. My heart hurts for everything Nijinsky suffered.  Did you know that de Morgoli took over 40 photos of Nijinsky’s funeral but only made money from the one where the coffin was sideways on the shoulders of pall bearers?

I have no proof of that whatsoever but I have only one thing left to say;

FRANCE – JANUARY 01: Friends Of Vaslav Nijinsky As Pallbearers At His Funeral At The Russian Cathedral St. Alexandre Nevsky On Rue Daru In Paris In 1950. On The Left The Choreographer Serge Lifar, Dancers Michel Renault, Nicolas Zvereff. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

I hope you didn’t have children you prick because you have broken every moral branch in your family tree and it will take generations to shake you off.


Fuck you,
Fatova

If he could have gotten to her 3 weeks before she died like George Barris, she would likely not have made it that long.

Last exploitation of Marilyn, July 1962, dead August 1962

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