From: John Glen (microcrystals2002@yahoo.com)
Date: 03/01/03-06:04:14 PM Z
Hi Shannon,
There is something going on, I don't know if I would
call it a difference in art / porn distinction but
what you mentioned in my view is a combination of
Japanese narcissism, immaturity and self-exploration.
Ray (JG)
--- Shannon Stoney <sstoney@pdq.net> wrote:
> I think sometimes the girls are photographing
> themselves and each
> other, and they portray themselves, deliberately it
> seems, in sort
> of cheesy, quasi-pornographic poses. The Japanese
> seem to consider
> this art photography, but I think to most Americans
> it just looks
> like poorly done, unimaginative porn. One of the
> wall plaques said
> that these photographic essays are usually published
> as paperback
> books, and that cumulatively the snapshots the girls
> make of each
> other, themselves, and their pastimes take on a sort
> of
> documentary/art quality. I guess it is sort of like
> Nan Goldin's
> body of work, but most of the photographs don't seem
> as formally
> interesting or carefully composed as hers often do.
> Anyway, this
> brought up some questions about the line between
> porn and art: Is
> the line different for Americans and Japanese?
>
> --shannon
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