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Erotism and suggesting... |
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Friday, 04 February 2005 |
This simple photo taken with an underwater disposable camera, is among my all-time favorites.
 It is part of a series of images that I took with a model in a pool. At some point I saw her bikini top floating around and took the snap. I like it because it uses the viewer's imagination to build a story around that simple piece of fabric. I happened to be working with a model that day but I could have easily taken this image without her, just with her bikini top, and get the same impression : there's a topless girl in that pool...
It is stretching the concept of suggestion beyond the usual borders, I agree, but the point remains the same. The suggesting of someting gets the mind working, and the mind is our biggest sexual organ, it is where eroticism is detected, and enjoyed.
The borders between artistic nude and erotic nude and pornographic nude are all in the eye and the mind of the beholder. I saw a movie recently titled "Moulin Rouge" (no, the the one with Nicole Kidman, the one from 1952 with Zsa-Zsa Gabor...), which is about the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. At one point in the movie, in a gallery, a woman is looking at a picture of a girl in underwear and corset, with a man looking at her. The woman says to Toulouse-Lautrec : "How dare you paint such filth, she's undressing in front of that man, that's disgusting....", To which Toulouse replies : "She is not undressing she is getting dressed, and the man is her husband, and they are about to go out to dinner to celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary, so I would not have you speak like that about such repectable people..." ...
Eroticism is in the eye of the beholder...
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