There is an awful lot of pornography out there which parades itself as art.
I seem to notice it more these days, perhaps I am getting old!
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Kiss <bobkiss@caribsurf.com>
To: ALT PHO PROC. <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: 10 December 1999 10:50
Subject: PANDORA OR CAN OF WORMS?
> Dear List,
> While on the topic of nudes and figure studies and whether or not they
> are pornography or just stereotypical, I must refer to the gallery URL
that
> was posted two weeks ago. I viewed every link and liked the Cyanotypes
and
> many other works very much.
> I also saw so SO MANY "GENERIC" figure studies of men that it was
rather
> disappointing. By generic I mean that the photographers had simply taken
> cheese cake poses which I first saw in the 50s as a child or in the 70s as
a
> fashion photographer and put men in the place of women, It was shown at a
> West Side New York Gallery so it must be art...right? I mean, seriously,
> the beefy boy sitting backwards, naked in the saddle, while beautifully
lit,
> looks EXACTLY like a pin-up I saw in 1955 on my older brother's wall
except
> then it was a "Cow Girl". There were also a number of very young men
> stripped to the waist looking at the camera with the "Come hither" look.
> Exact steal from what most of the young male photo assistants were asking
> their female models to do in the 70s in hopes of going beyond
photography..
> Yes, yes, yes...I know it falls under the politically correct umbrella
> of "Exploring male eroticism"...well Explore it already but to make cookie
> cutter images formerly occupied by women, I think, is reinforcing yet
> another stereotype and, perhaps, just as demeaning to men, regardless of
> their sexual preference, as we now acknowledge it is to women.
> Well, here goes...
> CHEERS!
> BOB KISS
>
>
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