Larry, This one's for you:
http://bit.ly/1fHdw5e Cheers, —M. \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 26 November 2013 14:02, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
