[pure-silver] Re: Censorship
- From: Ray Rogers <earthsoda@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:41:34 -0800 (PST)
I think most people, perhaps the audience not
artists?, see photographs as real...
but when one sees most paintings, there is less
reality to them in general...
Even if you know there was a real model in the
painters studio, until digital, a photographer had to
actually have a naked woman in front of him, but not
necessarily the painter.... the nude in most paintings
are somehow less -in your face- than photograps
Not that it makes it OK, but this is behind the
problem... photography still does not get much
respect!
Is this the fault of the artist, the society, or the
medium?
Too sleepeey to think deeply.
Ray
--- B P <peeperphotos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are two photographers who do silver-gelatin
> prints who had their
> prints removed from a show after they had already
> past through a jury and
> were hung. The artists are, David Schroeder, a
> local Psychologist and Lee
> Bailey, the lab tech and teachers assistant at the
> Jr. College that I
> attend. I saw the images and there were beautiful
> images of beautiful
> figures. They were not distasteful in the least bit.
> I went to the show and
> it's full of nude paintings. The paintings were just
> as nude as the
> photographs. The only images that were taken down
> from the show were
> photographs! It's my opinion that the body is
> artwork in and of itself. That
> viewing a beautiful human form would cause such
> discomfort for someone says
> troubling things about that person, not the artwork
> or the artist. Should we
> not see the human form as artwork unless it looks
> 'less real'?
>
>
> Have any of you had this kind of trouble showing
> your photographs of the
> figure?
>
> You can read the story at modbee.com you just scroll
> down a bit and you will
> see it.
>
> I think I'll go write a letter to the editor.
>
> Becky Lynn
>
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