If this forum is biased at all, it is towards images which treat their subject with sympathy. Departures from the rule are expected to be justified, preferably by something contained within the image itself.(posted 8569 days ago)Steve failed on all counts.
Like Allan, I demand more of a nude photograph, partly because I suspect the photographers motives, but also because so many seem to rely on the mere inclusion of bare skin to attract interest. I actively dislike beautifully-lit 'art' nudes where statuesque perfect bodies are twisted into pretzels in a coy effort to avoid showing any hint of genitalia. Shades of Ruskin on his wedding night.
Christel: to me Gunton's stuff looks as formulaic as Debenport's, and just as buried in its own self-referential, safe, closed world. Not cheap, but then, ocelot capes aren't cheap.
Tom: this one's definitely more erotic than the 'aftermath' image, but it's also much more conventional and much less interesting. I get more of a feeling that I'm being told what I should think, and I hate that.