[pure-silver] Re: Censorship
- From: David Starr <davestarr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:08:00 -0800 (PST)
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?
Paintings of nudes are ok, but photographs are not? That's really strange.
Was any reason given?
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