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Eroteme Fashion Tarot Cards      2011 Oleg Mitrofanov      UK                                                   Art Medium: Posed photographs with some digital manipulation. Description: This is conceived of as biannual publication of a tarot deck, which "aims to expand the borders of fashion by introducing style, beauty and decadence into specific and often forgotten branches of cretative arts". This first issue uses the theme of opera. Each of the photographs of models posing in wonderful costumes, often with stage like makeup, are collaged with other graphic elements to present a tableaux related to a scene from a classic opera which in turn reflects the tarot imagery. It is quite a tour de force. Each of the Majors and Courts are associate with a character from an Opera. Thus, The Fool is Papageno, High Priestess is Norma, Justice relates to Turandot. The models are posed in tableaux presenting the charcated from an opera. The photography is by Markus Nylaander.