On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Glen wrote:
What bugs me, is when an "outside" party (not the photographer, not the model, not even the current viewer of the photo in question) make remarks that suggest there must be sexual stimulation, lust, etc, involved in taking or looking at photographs involving nude people. This outside party doesn't even have to see any of the photographs in question. They are making rash assumptions about the motives and thoughts of other people, which is something I think should be avoided.
They are just projecting themselves onto the photographer's persona and expressing how they would act in his place.
Which is not to say that it is always inappropriate for there to be an erotic charge between photographer and model during a shoot. Edward Weston's nudes of Charis are a good example of that, as are those wonderful nudes Douglas Kirkland shot of Marilyn Monroe right before her death. Eroticism can be channelled into creative energy.
Bob
