From the moment that Acosta takes the stage, presenting us with the highly charged image of a black man in chains, it is clear that this is more than a tired propaganda piece.
While the ultimate aim of the sunshine policy might be a more secure Korea, its most immediate objective was to prove its own value by winning Kim Dae Jung the opportunity to create a spectacular and emotionally charged image of a new Korean order: a handshake with the North Korean leader.
There are huge, erotically charged images of flowers, billowing monochrome Tokyo skies, his balcony, all the food he ate during a visit to Seoul.
"There are two different kinds of sex," Mr. Wu said afterward, noting that he looked at both the erotically charged images of Newton and the softer, ethereal photography of Lillian Bassman when conceiving this collection.
His mastery of light and space, his majestic figures and singing, subtle colors coalesced into some of the most spellbindingly still yet psychically charged images of his, or any, time.
But now they won't have so far to go to see his striking and irreverent jewelry, where design inspiration can come from stingray fish or from gluttonous, avaricious and sexually charged images of the Seven Deadly Sins.
"We're well past the point in our culture when there is a bright line that separates sexually charged images of men and women just short of 18 from art," he said.
But now some of the director's sexually charged images of women, including blindfolded girls, an abstract nude and Kate Moss descending a staircase in suspenders, are going on show in "Best of British", at London's Little Black Gallery, alongside pictures by Terence Donovan, Terry O'Neill, Patrick Lichfield and Bob Carlos Clarke.
Jason Wu, a favorite to dress uptown girls (and even the first lady), took a seductive "Fifty Shades of Grey" approach, citing as his inspiration the "provocative, erotically charged images" of Helmut Newton contrasted with the "gentle forms" of the photographer Lillian Bassman.
Although Mr. diCorcia's dispassionate family pictures and surreal street photography have been the subject of exhibitions around the world, including a 1993 show at the Museum of Modern Art, he never received the kind of widespread attention that Ms. Goldin did for her emotionally charged images of battered women and drug addicts.
At home, racially charged images of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri mock his 2008 message of "Change".
