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Response to nudes?

from Mike Dixon (mike@mikedixonphotography.com)
I think you're preaching to the choir here, but I'd go further and say that there's nothing wrong with enjoying the sexual nature of photos (whether nude or clothed). I find that most nude photos that treat the body as just a landscape are quite dull and, in some sense, actually diminish the subject. It's not just a lump of clay, or a mountain, or a bowl of apples, it's a body!! An actual living person! Yet some photographers seem to go out of their way to make a nude body seem as lifeless and sexless as possible, apparently out of some bizarre notion that if it's sexual, it's not Art.

I'd agree that the sensuality and sexuality evident in a photo have no direct relationship to the amount of skin showing, except perhaps as the state of undress reflects a context with sexual overtones. I propose that, in the photo below, the likely interpretation would be quite different if she were wearing pants.

(posted 8190 days ago)

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