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    Re: Nudes...?

    There are good nudes and bad nudes just like there are good landscapes and bad landscapes and anything else being photographed. Yes, I agree that there are a lot of boring nudes out there but I just think it's because there is a lot of boring photography in general out there. Great art is not easy to do.

    I took figure drawing 1, 2 and 3 in college to learn how to draw people. I'm not a prude but I have never shot a nude with a camera because I have never wanted to. I also don't do macro work. There is nothing wrong with either one and I enjoy other people's work but it's just not what I'm interested in doing myself.

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    We're all naked underneath our clothes. Why the hubbub about pictures of naked people?

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    The original post that started this thread posed a straight-forward question: were the criteria applied to nudes the same criteria applied to still life, landscape, etc. I think for the majority of viewers, the answer is "no" because of all the societal drives which associate nudity with sex. While there are clearly exceptions, most will spend more time looking at a nude image of an attractive woman than one not as good looking, most will spend more time looking at a female nude than a male nude, and so on. In fact, if I think of male nudes, many of the photographers who made the images were known to be attracted to men, so there again we have more than aesthetics at play. I would go so far as to suggest that some of the same issues are even at play in portraiture, where the portrait of an attractive individual usually gets more attention than a face with more character, although here the impact is far less than in nudes.

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    Of course there's more than aesthetics at play - at least more than the aesthetics of the photograph itself. So what?

    Here's another straightforward question that has also popped up more often in discussions on nudes: how come when this issue pops up, so many people respond in an almost emotional way?

    As far as I'm concerned, there are only two relevant criteria that apply to any photo when it comes to the question of it should be made:
    Does the photographer feel compelled to make the image?
    Is there any reasonable objection by the people (if any) captured in the image?
    If "yes" to (1) and "no" to (2), then full force ahead.

    Or, as popular Internet culture would formulate it: "haters gonna hate".

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    Quote Originally Posted by koraks View Post

    Here's another straightforward question that has also popped up more often in discussions on nudes: how come when this issue pops up, so many people respond in an almost emotional way?
    Religion and/or politics, social norms?

    Remember just a few years ago in the U.S. when parents were being arrested for taking photos of their baby in the bathtub?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan Gales View Post
    Religion and/or politics, social norms?...
    In our present society, the norm is to objectify women thru images. One recent (local) billboard that comes to mind is one advertising a fight-night (where locals can fight each other for money) at a local casino. Above and to the right of the image of two male fighters, are two scantily dressed women with the word "PRIZES!" above them. A not-too-subtle objectification of women as something to win, rather than to respect as individuals. I have decided not to participate in the further objectification of women thru photography. Even if taken with complete respect for the model, the image still can feed into the objectification. It goes beyond the relationship of the photographer and the model. This is just a personal choice and I certainly do not expect our patriarchal society to quickly change its way of viewing the female form.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn View Post
    In our present society, the norm is to objectify women thru images. [snip questionable allegory]
    Vaughn, do you think it has always been that way? As a mental experiment consider that the nude was to remove clothing as a statement of style, the conventions of the time, so that the imaging (of any kind) could fit into the long-term fine art category of criticism?

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    Clothing has always been a demonstration of status / wealth.

    To eliminate that association and focus on the subject, one must remove the clothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn View Post
    In our present society, the norm is to objectify women thru images. One recent (local) billboard that comes to mind is one advertising a fight-night (where locals can fight each other for money) at a local casino. Above and to the right of the image of two male fighters, are two scantily dressed women with the word "PRIZES!" above them. A not-too-subtle objectification of women as something to win, rather than to respect as individuals. I have decided not to participate in the further objectification of women thru photography. Even if taken with complete respect for the model, the image still can feed into the objectification. It goes beyond the relationship of the photographer and the model. This is just a personal choice and I certainly do not expect our patriarchal society to quickly change its way of viewing the female form.
    Vaughn, my 22 year old daughter was recently telling me about how when she goes to the mall to buy clothes there are all these semi nude posters of women who look like prostitutes or porn stars plastered on the walls. A few years ago the style was drug addiction.

    I fully agree with you that it's just sick how we objectify women through advertising in our society.

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