[pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
- From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:05:37 +0900
Dear Nephew Chris,
I am glad to read that the public library system of Ann Arbor had a
section devoted to pictures of bare naked women. I think this a valuable
contribution to world peace and artistic development. I too undertook a
course of study of the same subject along about 13 - I note from your email
that we are the same age so it is possible that we may have had access to
some of the same source material. Interesting that we have also pursued 45
years of our own photography based upon this foundation. I believe a French
painter - Courbet, perhaps - illustrated the phenomenon in the 19th
century, to some scandal.
I for one am glad of that early training. It has enabled me to see the
fun in pictures of bare naked women - and also to see sadness as well. The
books and magazines of the period that you - we - saw may have included
Peter Gowland, Bunny Yeager, Bruno Bernard, and the works of one Mr. Hefner.
Plus innumerable calendars hanging in innumerable barbershops and garages. I
cannot remember any that were uninteresting and despite their varying level
of skill, they were all good humoured. They were there to attract us and
attract us they did.
Unfortunately I find that much of the current crop of books and
magazines based on the same core subject does NOT attract. Quite the
opposite. From the 'lads mag' that seems stuffed with aggressive language
and snarling tottie to the multicoloured art book with the gynaecological
diagrams it all seems to be a meaner and sadder world. I can no longer
imagine myself happy in the arms of the young ladies depicted on the page -
or anywhere else on their anatomies...I might ask one of them along on a
roo-shooting trip or to change the oil on the car, but amour does not enter
into it.
Sad, this. Have you found it to be the same?
Uncle Dick
PS: This should open a Saturday Can 'O Worms.
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