Dead appealing: how photographer Christopher Williams’ shiny shots advertise emptiness

Fake smiles, glass flowers and redder than red apples … Williams’ peculiar images seduce even as they hint at the corruption of photography by advertisingIn his new exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery in east London, Christopher Williams breaks all the rules. For a start, some of the walls have been flown in from his recent show in Germany – and the captions on the works are from the Whitechapel’s previous exhibition, Adventures of the Black Square. The confusion these random captions