The ironies and realistic details are thoroughly shown in Jessica Craig-Martin’s photography, and these stand in stark contrast to the  high-society parties. At this party, the upper class sees themselves as gorgeous, luxurious, with beautiful food, champagne and wine, impeccable hair and makeup, luxurious handbags, elegant silk dresses and suits. But what her camera captures is the easy to miss, but there are weaknesses in everyone, like saggy skin, wrinkles on the face, too much blush on the cheek, the ladies who eat fast food, the creases of fine clothes and even more.

Evening Honouring Bill Blass, Waldorf Astoria, New York, 1999

Cibachrome print, 61.2 x 74 cm

AmFar Benefit, Cannes, May 1998
Cibachrome print, 61.3 x 96.2 cm

Planet Hollywood, Cannes, 1997

Cibachrome print, 61 x 84 cm

Givenchy Luncheon, Hotel Carlisle, New York, 2000

Cibachrome print, 61.3 x 91.7 cm

Film Premiere, Cannes, 1997

Cibachrome print, 61 x 84 cm

New Museum Benefit Gala, New York, 2000

Cibachrome print, 61 x 74 cm

Diffa Benefit Cipriani, New York, 2001

Cibachrome print, 61 x 91 cm

Jessica Craig-Martin,Evening Honouring Bill Blass, Waldorf Astoria, New York, 1999

Cibachrome print, 61 x 74 cm

Victory Ventures Christmas Party, New York, December, 1996

Cibachrome print, 61 x 84.2 cm

“Her work evokes the excess and abjection of Nan Goldin’s photographs, styling the upper classes as absurd purveyors of artifice. “The camera is as cruel as the fashion and styling stunts it depicts are vain and ambitious,” wrote Glenn O’Brien of her work. “We see the socialite’s world as a House of Wax—a world so inhuman it attains the status of art.” (https://www.artsy.net/artist/jessica-craig-martin)

Reference:

https://www.artsy.net/artist/jessica-craig-martin