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Response to Predudice against erotica at this forum? A response...

from tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com)
Steve posted his work as an attack of sorts, and thereby influenced the nature of many of the responses.

The observation that (erotic photographs) "are primarily designed to arouse by portraying idealized images" also well describes good advertising photography, a point not in conflict with the rest of Mr. Kantor's post.

I don't like to think of human erotic imagination in commercial terms. I'm happy to be paid for my erotic images, but this path of thinking again takes me to sexual professionalism and I don't create this sort of work with a market in mind, it really is "personal" work and those who buy it have often been of the same gender as those depicted.

I'd rather make images that evoke emotions than sensations, or realizations rather than fantasies.

The bluenudes images didn't really impress me. Genetically astounding women, and dedicated, polished applications, but the technique sort of overwhelms any ability or desire to place myself into any context with those girls. No hint of a woody. They looked as "created" as their environs... spandex, acrylic and megabytes ... t

(posted 8547 days ago)

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