Quote of the Day – October 24 2015
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
Paul Strand
What distinguishes the erotic photograph from the pornographic photograph?
“Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic is a pornographic that has been disturbed, fissured). Nothing more homogeneous than a pornographic photograph. It is always a naive photograph, without intention and without calculation. Like a shop window which shows only one illuminated piece of jewelry, it […]
Quote of the Day – October 23 2015
“To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. ( The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness […]
What I’m watching… ‘La Belle Noiseuse’ Directed by Jacques Rivette
The film won the Grand Prix at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
The film had a good critical reception, and occasioned much comment on Béart’s frank onscreen nudity and Rivette’s characteristic use of an extreme running time.
Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert added the film to his Great Movies collection in April 2009
Quote of the Day – October 22 2015
“Colors are the smiles of nature.”
Leigh Hunt
Quote of the Day – October 21 2015
“A film is a ribbon of dreams. The camera is much more than a recording apparatus; it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world that is not ours and that brings us to the heart of a great secret. Here magic begins.”
Orson Welles
What I’m reading… ‘Curvology: The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape.’
Tabloid newspapers take a prurient interest in women who flaunt their curves. The role of the media, and other cultural forces, in constructing notions of female beauty is often discussed. But “Curvology”, a new book by David Bainbridge, focuses on the part played by evolution in men’s—and women’s—understanding and appreciation of the undulations of the […]
Quote of the Day – October 20 2015
“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
George Eastman
Photography and sex…
Let me state that while I love sex, I dislike pornography. That said, I do appreciate certain aspects of pornography.
There is an immediate, primal charge in the explicit penetration. It’s the knowledge that the people on-screen are actually fucking and not simulating.
However, this usually evolves into twenty minutes of repetitive close-ups of genital corkscrewing and […]
