From: Sandy King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Date: 09/13/00-08:22:16 PM Z
Chris,
To the contrary, you have a lot of good ideas on the subject and I
found what you had to say very interesting, even if truncated. So
much so in fact that I want to immediately get your book and read
more!!
Regards,
Sandy King
>That was hilarious; I sent the letter accidentally before I finished
>writing; excuse my cut and paste and lack of conclusion; however, maybe it
>is telling me to shut up and take it off list!
> Here's to widening the repertoire of nudes, both male and female, to
>better represent our current societal viewpoints...
> BTW as a funny, last year when I was finishing writing the book on the
>nude in art history and doing another on nude photography I chose to do a
>whole nude project, with ads for models, male and female. The first two
>models that answered my ad happened to be exotic dancers for a living, so
>trying to explain to them how I wanted to do a non-objectifying nude project
>to two women who objectify for a living was....well, let's just say that
>they looked at me blankly. I did get some great stereotypical sexy pix out
>of them and even kept them in the project, but it was in retrospect such
>just desserts for me! My fave nudes of the whole project (and those that
>sold) were of a woman who is well into the 200 lb range.
> As you can see, this is an avid interest of mine so I'll shut up now...
>Chris
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