Objectification of human subjects
I've been having a lot of conversations with my daughter about the objectification of women. SInce your title translates as "the false sun king,"
would these images work with male models? I don't want to get into a long discussion about nudes in general, please restrict the response to these two images.
Re: Objectification of human subjects
Per Peter Lewin's request, I've moved this to its own thread. Peter started the discussion with reference to these pictures posted in the small format nudes thread:
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...=1#post1413897
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...=1#post1413898
Re: Objectification of human subjects
The reason I wanted to restrict the discussion to Genfer's two images is that they used costume elements to relate to a ""false sun King." I wondered if the photos would work as well with a male King. When nudes are solely of a body, they relate specifically to gender. When the images relate to costume elements (and maybe even history or myth) I thought there might be more flexibility.
Re: Objectification of human subjects
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Originally Posted by
Peter Lewin
When nudes are solely of a body, they relate specifically to gender.
Not true by any stretch of the imagination.
I can take a million different photos of subjects completely unclothed where you cannot determine their gender.
This whole question is just one person trying to impose his sense of propriety on the world in general.
Men like to look at naked women. That's the only reason the human race exists in the first place.
And it's probably true of all other species that have vision.
- Leigh
Re: Objectification of human subjects
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Originally Posted by
Leigh
Men like to look at naked women. That's the only reason the human race exists in the first place.
And it's probably true of all other species that have vision.
:)
Image 650x868 pixels: here. My sympathies to the objectified peacock.
Re: Objectification of human subjects
Straight men like looking at nude women. Gay men like looking at nude men. We men are wired visually.
I think Leigh has a good point! ;)
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Alan Gales
Straight men like looking at nude women. Gay men like looking at nude men. We men are wired visually.
You're absolutely correct, of course. It makes me physically sick to even think about looking at Michelangelo's David, and needless to say, I never would take a picture of it -- even if given a chance.