From: Wayne D (wdewitt@snip.net)
Date: 09/13/00-10:19:56 PM Z
I also liken my nude photography to "landscapes". One reason that I enjoy
photographing women instead of men is the absence of "weeds" and other
undesirable foliage sprouting up to interrupt the flowing lines of the
landscape. Also the topography is generally smoother. There's no overt
sexual component involved. I would rather photograph waves and sand dunes
than rocky hills with scrub brush. Personal preference. If I were to
photograph men then there would be a stronger unavoidable human component to
the composition. Women's bodies just lend themselves better to compositions
of line and tonalities.
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Miller" <gmphotos@earthlink.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: New chip/ was Advances in CCD to go with Canon
> The entire area of nude photography is quite a fascinating one as is the
> male/female nude situation. Woman are definitely photographed nude more
> often than men. All things considered equal those interested in the
> photography or art of the nude should not care whether the subject is male
> or female because many times the study is about line and form and not
about
> male or female. However we are blessed/cursed with this thing called a
> brain which has as part of it a sex drive and the primordial desire to
> reproduce. I feel that the male dominated world would therefore logically
> be drawn to photograph/paint the female form more than the male form just
> like it is 'allowed' to have two woman dance together, or kiss, etc. when
> men would shutter at the thought of seeing two men dance, or kiss, etc,
lest
> they be labeled as gay (Not that there is anything wrong with that).
There
> is this whole other homo phobic thing that runs through the male
population
> that I do not think exists as greatly in the female population. There are
> so many knots and questions within this whole thing which pulls at our
basic
> selves. My current thesis project, which I have been working on for the
> past two years, is trying to deal with and understand the role of the nude
> in art and photography. And yes Judy and others my photographic figure
> studies include both men and women, young and old, and various ethnic
groups
> and body types. My work is not about sex but about form and design and
the
> landscape of the body, the body as Beauty. Along these lines it is
> interesting to look back at the early Greeks where the male nude was the
> celebrated body form and the female figure appeared less often and mostly
> clothed. There is definitely a society pressure that drives this. Quite
a
> fascinating and complex issue all in all.
>
> Gary Miller
>
>
>
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