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The 10th Madeleine Award: glare and stare, wonder and ponder
Posted By Graeme Dobell on January 14, 2019 @ 06:00
Its powerful subjects are captured in a tense moment that not only encapsulates a political mood but also reveals something of the character of its subjects, as human beings as well as world leaders.
Trump, arms folded and jaw set, locks eyes with Merkel from across the table. Merkel, hands placed firmly on the table, stands up and leans in to his gaze. (It was in this extraordinary encounter that the memes saw school ma’am and truculent child, the stuff of an editorial cartoonist’s dreams.)
Around them, another narrative plays out. Macron engages animatedly with an open-mouthed John Bolton, Trump’s National Security Advisor, while Abe folds his arms and looks to Macron. The result is theatrical in its storytelling possibilities.
[O]ne of the things that I think is frustrating for women in leadership roles at the moment, still, is that there is endless commentary about what they're wearing. For me, being the first female prime minister, there were times when it was just truly absurd. You’d be going in and out of a NATO meeting in Brussels to talk about our strategy for fighting a war in Afghanistan and people would be commenting on what jacket you were wearing. And so I did, in this, want to entirely take clothes out of the equation.
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[1] Jesco Denzel: http://www.jescodenzel.com/de/portfolio/offizieller-fotograf
[2] ‘read my pins’: http://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780060899189/
[3] a trio of monkey brooches: http://www.newsweek.com/madeleine-albright-my-favorite-mistake-68377
[4] trolled: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5961705/Did-Queen-troll-Trump-BROOCHES.html
[5] brooches: https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/was-the-queen-subtly-trolling-trump-with-her-jewellery-20180718-p4zs81.html
[6] power and seduction’ of her hats: http://theconversation.com/not-merely-costume-the-power-and-seduction-of-the-queens-hats-79119?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2012%202017%20-%2076035947&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20J
[7] instant classic: https://www.economist.com/prospero/2018/06/11/the-g7-photograph-has-the-dynamism-of-caravaggio-at-his-best
[8] sleeves rolled-up, high-stakes political history: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/photos-go-down-history
[9] Zoe Daniel: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-15/donald-trumps-big-week-in-singapore/9873270
[10] foreign-policy game theory: https://capx.co/on-foreign-policy-donald-trump-takes-his-lead-from-dungeons-and-dragons/
[11] 12,000 pieces of jewellery and 567 handbags: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-27/police-seize-567-handbags-from-premises-linked-to-razak/9915602?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%3a8935&user_id=ab90768909f480fbbd5781290b3406e8102840405da2706339d0784d980223a5&WT.tsrc=email&WT.mc_id=Ema
[12] 6th Madeleine: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/and-the-madeleine-goes-to/
[13] shoes on the table: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/why-this-hipster-dessert-outraged-japanese-officials/news-story/8c8de24779ced1a39869ea167705f312
[14] the utility and force of photographs : https://archive.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/madeleine-diana-directive-utility-and-force-photographs
[15] the neck up: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-24/julia-gillard-portrait-unveiled-in-parliament-house/10424304
[16] Fascism: a warning: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062802187/fascism-a-warning/