{"id":44817,"date":"2019-01-14T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=44817"},"modified":"2019-02-22T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T05:37:42","slug":"the-10th-madeleine-award-glare-and-stare-wonder-and-ponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/the-10th-madeleine-award-glare-and-stare-wonder-and-ponder\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10th Madeleine Award: glare and stare, wonder and ponder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No suspense this year. The winner is obvious: a masterpiece by the German official photographer, Jesco Denzel<\/a>, wins the 10th Madeleine Award for the use of symbol, stunt, prop, gesture or jest.<\/p>\n

The annual prize is inspired by former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, who sent diplomatic messages via the brooches worn on her lapel. Albright\u2019s messaging wasn\u2019t about \u2018read my lips\u2019, it was\u00a0\u2018read my pins\u2019<\/a>: her favourite mistake was wearing\u00a0a trio of monkey brooches<\/a>\u00a0to meet Vladimir Putin, causing the Russian to go ape.<\/p>\n

In the Madeleine spirit, the judges were enchanted by claims the Queen trolled<\/a> US President Donald Trump with her brooches<\/a>. It\u2019d be a wonderful bit of modern Elizabethan business from the monarch who ascended the throne when Winston Churchill was prime minister. The eloquence of the Queen\u2019s brooches matches the \u2018power and seduction\u2019 of her hats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Denzel G7 photo, though, couldn\u2019t be denied, an \u2018instant classic<\/a>, a picture of political drama that captures the power struggle of an age in a single image\u2019.<\/p>\n

As the University of Melbourne\u2019s Kyla McFarlane commented, it\u2019s a compelling image of \u2018sleeves rolled-up, high-stakes political\u00a0history<\/a> being made in a room, in real time\u2019.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019am and truculent child, the stuff of an editorial cartoonist\u2019s dreams.)<\/p>\n

Around them, another narrative plays out. Macron engages animatedly with an open-mouthed John Bolton, Trump\u2019s National Security Advisor, while Abe folds his arms and looks to Macron. The result is theatrical in its storytelling possibilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump flew direct from stare-off to Singapore (tweeting insults at Canada as he left) to do salute-and-handshake with North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un. Along to report that wild ride, ABC correspondent Zoe Daniel<\/a> marvelled: \u2018Kim Jong-un is \u201ctalented\u201d. Justin Trudeau is \u201cdishonest and weak\u201d. Friends are enemies. Enemies are friends. I\u2019ve flown around the world and back this week and, man, oh man,\u00a0is the water going backwards down the drain or what?\u2019<\/p>\n

Maybe Trump\u2019s foreign-policy game theory<\/a> is from the board game Dungeons and Dragons<\/em>. He\u2019s playing as a \u2018chaotic neutral\u2019, \u2018an individualist, neither good nor evil, who cares little for rules or precedence and thrives in spontaneity.\u00a0Chaotic Neutrals are motivated by promoting freedom,\u00a0but can sometimes confuse freedom with selfishness\u2019.<\/p>\n

Ah, chaotic neutrality. Obvious …<\/p>\n

Beyond The Donald, others put in strong Madeleine efforts. One image lingering from Malaysia\u2019s extraordinary election\u2014which ended 61 years of coalition rule by the United Malays National Organisation\u2014is that a week after the vote, millions of Malaysians still displayed the purple ink on their index finger to show they\u2019d voted.<\/p>\n

When locations linked to defeated prime minister Najib Razak were raided, authorities needed six counting machines to tot up mountains of hoarded cash. They seized 12,000 pieces of jewellery and 567 handbags<\/a>. Minor details tell so much: 567 handbags!<\/p>\n

As Hong Kong had its umbrella revolution in 2014 (winner of the 6th Madeleine<\/a>), so France has experienced its hi-vis mouvement des gilets jaunes<\/em>. Yellow jackets, roundabouts and angry crowds make for powerful messaging.<\/p>\n

In the minor awards, competition for the annual OOPS! Award for blooper and blunder was typically hectic. The OOPS! is known as a Boris, in honour of that wonderful former UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson. When sacked from shadow cabinet, many moons ago, Johnson commented: \u2018There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.\u2019 Masterful.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s OOPS! goes to the hip chef in Israel who put shoes on the table<\/a> for a dinner the country\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, gave for his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe. Dessert was chocolate pralines served in two pairs of men\u2019s black brogues. Puzzling for the leader of a country where you take your shoes off at the door, not on the table.<\/p>\n

Another award is the Diana on \u2018the utility and force of photographs <\/a>\u2019, named for Diana, Princess of Wales, drawing on Tony Blair\u2019s account of how the princess understood pix: \u2018As Diana used to say, the picture is what counts.\u2019<\/p>\n

Because the G7 glare-and-stare photo gets the top Madeleine, the Diana can go elsewhere. Segue from a powerful woman staring down a powerful man to another steady gaze\u2014not a photograph, but the official portrait of Australia\u2019s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard.<\/p>\n

While all the previous portraits were blokes in suits, Gillard took the wardrobe out of the picture. She ordered a portrait from the neck up<\/a>, telling the ABC\u2019s Annabel Crabb:<\/p>\n

[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\u2019d 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The final word from this year\u2019s award goes to Madeleine Albright, still showing a policy brain as sharp as her humour. The first female US secretary of state\u2014a child of war-torn Europe\u2014has written another fine book, Fascism: a warning<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Musing on fascism in the time of Trump, Albright delivers a motto for the award that carries her name: \u2018I am an optimist who worries a lot.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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