Fascinating.
--Darin
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If you are serious about making an artistic photo, there are so many things you are thinking about, there just isn't room for dirty thoughts. Lighting, directing the model, model's pose (many, many subtle details), composition, DOF, framing, timing, I'm thirsty, ...
And, yes, I am a healthy, normal, heterosexual male...
+1.
When I was young, I dated a young attractive girl who had a bad experience with one of those jerks. He was an amateur photographer and her boss at a fast food establishment. They were dating and he asked her to pose nude for him. He then took his prints to work and posted them up on the bulletin board for all the employees to see.
There are some creeps out there!
someone helped and found it for me HUGE THANKS !
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...et-nude-models
i appreciated the help !
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and thanks for the insights you folks have given me about the genre ...
i know it isn't necessary to put oneself in someone else' shoes and it only requires
humility, respect, empathy &c
sorry to cross genre but it is sort of like the difference
between photographing someplace,( grab-shot?) and photographing the same area and creating a sense of place
through an understanding of what that place is / was/ might be &c ( significance &c )
A story about Jock Sturges relayed by a former photo professor of mine goes something like... "people who don't get my work, who think that I'm exploiting my subjects, don't understand that when I'm photographing them... I'm nude too!"
I think your reacher misread Sturges' intent entirely. He view seems to be that yes, his photos are erotic but that American standards of what can be erotic and what cannot is too strict. Thus, to use his phraseology, his nude images of young girls may be erotic--since you cannot deny the innate erotic nature of the human body, even at a very young age--but his photos are not perverse. The bit about him being nude, too, is just one of those throw-away lines. Clearly an adult man photographing a nude 13-year-old are not there on equal terms, no matter whether they are dressed or not. It's goofy even to say that.
--Darin
Sturges photographs at Nudist (naturist) places, so if he's nude, he's fitting in. The context is important.