[pure-silver] Re: Censorship
- From: "BOB KISS" <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:17:31 -0400
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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[mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of B P
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:34 PM
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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> 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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