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Monday, 07 February 2005 |
Among the photographic "cliches" (it's strange that I don't know the actual word for that in english...) that populate the world of erotic and fetish photography, the use of corsets is one that always brings up pretty much the same images.
I like corsets, don't get me wrong, and it's not just a male chauvinistic pig kind of thing (though judging by my photographs I'm probably a closet oppressor of women...), but it's just one of those things that you can photographs in so many ways before become mind-numbingly boring...
In fact it's the same with many photographic subjects : it's not because you have made an image, once, that was succesful, that you have to make the same image over and over again (for some reason I have nightmarish images of babies in flowerpots when I say that...(I actually do like some of the work done by Anne Geddes, just not her "baby in flower pot" work...))
Corsets have such a strong "mythological" and symbolic strength in the erotic and fetish world, just like thigh-high stockings, or high-heel shoes, that their use sometimes seem as a cheap substitute for a properly made picture. They are sometimes used to make an image look more "artsy" by taking the image from the simple pornographic and putting it in the fetish...
Now... this has been a fun week, we've gone from nudity to pornography, and I haven't gotten a single piece of hate mail. Maybe I'll continue the relfection on the subject for a few more days...
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