[pure-silver] Re: Censorship
- From: Bogdan Karasek <bkarasek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:46:27 -0500
Hello all,
I have to agree with Bob Kiss on this. Protest, but not silently.
Silence only validates the other person's position. Make your position
known; one person's moral values should not be the moral barometer for
the rest of society. If the person finds the nudes offensive, then
don't look at them. Tell the person to go away, put their head in the
sand. Speak up. Let the people of your community know what is
happening. If people are silent, no one will pay attention. And before
you know it, everybody will have forgotten. So you have to remind them.
I don't know what works best in your community, but make your voice
heard, let it be know that you find it objectionable and also that the
gallery is party to this; some pie in their face. Let them be
embarrassed, they deserve it.
But do not be silent!
Keep us informed.
Cheers,
Bogdan
BOB KISS wrote:
DEAR BECKY,
I think that protest is exactly what you should do but by
pulling your work you simply become invisible and therefore easily
ignored. Why not leave your print IN the show and organize a press
conference or event where you defend the pulled work, bring up the
issues and generate some debate. Absence and silence are pretty
ineffective if you want change. Stay in the game and make some noise!
CHEERS!
BOB
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From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of B P
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:34 PM
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Censorship
Another question... I have a photograph in the show too but it's not you
can't see anything in the image that they would consider,
"inappropriate". Mine is the only other photograph of a figure, left in
the show. Should I remove it in protest to the censorship of the other
photographers or leave it?
What would you do?
Becky Lynn
On 12/6/07, B P <peeperphotos@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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 <http://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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Bogdan Karasek
Montréal, Québec bogdan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Canada www.bogdanphoto.com
"I bear witness"
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