Nude

[lenser]

Geoffrey....exquisite!!!

[GeoffreyO]

Geoffrey....exquisite!!!

Thanks so much! We battled heat, humidity, mud, HUGE spiders, flies, mosquitoes and locusts to reach the location, so you can imagine how pleased I am to produce an acceptable photograph

[Roger Cole]

Geoffrey....exquisite!!!

Agree - very good!

[Ash]

Le Violon d'Ingres par Man Ray



Had a play around this evening after developing a few more shots from the 5x7.
Such a cliche but couldn't resist...


Modified Goerz Anschütz 5x7
Goerz Doppel-Anastigmat 180/6.8
1/60 f/11 single flash through white brolly

[Frank Petronio]

It's a classy cliche. Just warp them a tad and do "multiply" at 67% to make them look like tattoos, or leave them black to be surrealist.

[Ash]

I took the f's straight off a copy of Man Ray's. It looks like he had them dense black; apparently he painted them onto a print and re-photographed it. Maybe I'll contact print this and ink/paint them on sometime

[Armin Seeholzer]

Le Violon d'Ingres par Man Ray

I prefer the Cello ones, which I think he used!;--)))

[Jay DeFehr]

I think the cliche' works better if the torso is photographed from an angle which recalls the shape of a cello. In this instance, the gimmick relies on the reader to make the connection based on another, well known photograph, and not on a mental comparison of the two shapes (torso and cello). I think the direct gaze of the model further distracts from the intended allusion.

[Ash]

Armin... blame the French and their play on words.
Jay... I'd prefer to abstract from something than straight off copy it. The connection is in the name rather than a direct reproduction of the image. It was just a bit of fun anyway, hardly a serious photo.

[Ash]

Since I can't edit my post I thought I'd actually copy and paste the text from GETTY:

Man Ray was an admirer of the paintings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and made a series of photographs, inspired by Ingres's languorous nudes, of the model Kiki in a turban. Painting the f-holes of a stringed instrument onto the photographic print and then rephotographing the print, Man Ray altered what was originally a classical nude. He also added the title Le Violon d'Ingres, a French idiom that means "hobby." The transformation of Kiki's body into a musical instrument with the crude addition of a few brushstrokes makes this a humorous image, but her armless form is also disturbing to contemplate. The title seems to suggest that, while playing the violin was Ingres's hobby, toying with Kiki was a pastime of Man Ray. The picture maintains a tension between objectification and appreciation of the female form.

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/...s?artobj=61240


I hope this clears up for anyone who thinks the photograph should be a cello. I hope it also clears up that I'm referencing an image that is as much about objectification as it is alluding to an artist.