Response to a bar shot...not quite a Jeffer, but what the heck...

well, shawn, consider this: if this woman was plain and obese, would you have made an effort to produce her image, given the same existential conditions? if so, why? what is the point in taking a picture of an unattractive lady in a bar, *assuming* that the image of the lady is the only subject of the picture? obviously, if you have a different purpose, such as a documentary for any nearly infinite reasons, or if she is your friend or cousin and you want to produce a basic recordation of her personage, then you take the shot and so be it. but i don't think you would submit the solo photo for critique on this forum. finally, i recognize the weakness in my position, or at least what i consider to be the primary shortcoming: where the hell do i get off deciding who is "gorgeous"? well, i suppose the only straight answer is that i think there are ideals held by the majority of posters here of who is or isn't attractive, and my bet is that one could summon a "sense of the forum" that would be acceptable to them that would include the lady in your image. now, my cousin, the subject of "sailor boy", may be another, more problematic, subject...at any rate, the questions of photographic philosophy often raised by these images are, i think, the source of interesting comment.

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