On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 08:02:48AM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: > Ah! I think I understand what you are really having an issue with in > these shots, Larry: it's that the photographer is objectifying the > motorcycle.
Exactly. It's terrible when they dehumanize fine motorcycles like that. :-) More seriously, I see a spectrum that goes something like: The human body as a compositional element. The human body as something beautiful, or at least visually interesting. The model as a sexual being. The model's ONLY purpose is as a sexual being. For me, there is a key difference between the last two, and a lot of cheesecake seems to dress and pose the women to convey that these women are beautiful in part because they are too dumb and helpless to do anything but be sexual objects for the pleasure of others. Admittedly, I might be more attracted to such women if we didn't bore each other to tears. They tend not to have anything to talk about that I find at all interesting, and I tend not to have anything to talk about that they find interesting, or in many cases, in a way that they understand. In normal conversation, I'm deficient at using an accessible lexicon. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
