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Response to All right, let's push the envelope a bit here

from Peter Hughes (leo948@yahoo.com)
I too agree with Jeff's message ( at least to some extent), which is why I posted the above. "Images of women" don't all have to be one thing or another. I spent a couple of years documenting "average" women with my 8x10 camera. (See: http://www.ravenvision.com/rvapeterthewomen.htm) But there is an undeniable satisfaction in making a beautiful photo of a traditionally beautiful woman. Now why does such a woman have to be stereotyped as a "kewpie doll"? That's demeaning. After all, she can't help it that's she's beautiful. So what should I as a photographer do? Try to make her less so in my images of her?

And yes, I am editorializing a bit when I draw attention to her menstruation. This is a fairly taboo subject in our patriarchal culture. And the few images I've seen of menstruating women have all been done by other women. It seems heretical to many that a man should make such images.

(posted 8785 days ago)

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