When avant-garde met visibility, the world called it progress.

In 2011, Lady Gaga collaborated with fashion photographer Nick Knight, whose visionary work has been honored internationally for reshaping how we see beauty, the body, and transformation, for the cover of her album Born This Way.

Through its themes, visuals, and Knight’s digitally driven performance imagery, the record blurred the line between pop spectacle and avant-garde art.

But visibility has a way of taming the wild.

What was once radical authenticity soon became a template for social approval — once corporations learned that visibility sold.

Still, in that brief flash beginning in 2009, Gaga and Knight began collaborating on a series of campaigns and projects — including her video-driven live performances — in which self-creation once again felt dangerous and visually provocative.

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