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Artistic Nudity Vs. Pornography.
Grayscale Photo wrote: I don't necessarily agree with this. I don't think anyone really considers "The Last Setting" by Bert Stern to have anything pornographic in it, but Marilyn Monroe is looking directly at him/the camera in a lot of the nude shots. Every rule has it's exception, I suppose. Mar 31 16 05:36 pm Link Depends totally on how you look at it. Many "artistic" images gets your testosterone pumping, and many "porn" images are rather thought provoking  Apr 03 16 05:18 am Link Eyesso wrote: Wouldn't it be impossible to combine both?...... Apr 06 16 03:57 pm Link Michael DBA Expressions wrote: Now here's someone using their head for more than a hat rack. 100% correct. Apr 06 16 05:08 pm Link IMAGINERIES wrote: No. It's harder to separate them since depending on how puritanical someone is, art that contains an element of nudity can be considered as porn. Since some people can become aroused at the sight of a balloon, clown or ball of hair on a dusty floor... it isn't at all in-conceivable that people can become aroused while staring at the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. Apr 06 16 05:18 pm Link Teila K Day Photography wrote: So, I guess pornography is in the eyes of the beholder. Regarding nudity..... Apr 07 16 04:34 pm Link For the love of all that is held as holy...This subject is STILL not dead yet? This was being debated six years ago, when I last dared to enter the forums!! LOL Apr 07 16 07:54 pm Link TheArchon wrote: Well in the last six years thousands of people have come and gone from the site and most may have never known about old subjects like this.....or the ever present escort thread that pops up so it's new to those folks. And yeah...some subjects just aren't ever going to die. lol Apr 07 16 08:13 pm Link Emma Charlotte wrote: Not sure what is dignified nudity vs sexual nudity. Much has been written on the subject and in the right context I feel the whole spectrum of nudity whether indicitive of Greek and Roman statue or highly sexual have their place. Apr 10 16 01:27 pm Link why does it matter... the end user will determine what they see... my feeling is you go with what you are comfortable with... and what you will be proud of years later... as what ever goes up on the internet will stay there forever. other than abuse of children, animals and the non consenting... there really is no line. Apr 21 16 07:15 am Link GIRLS AND PICTURES “I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” Robert A. Heinlein Ladies, It's o.k. to be a nude model. It's o.k. to be a model with clothes on. It's o.k. to not be a model but just a girl who just wants pictures of themselves nude....or not nude. It's o.k. for any or all or none of these pictures to be sexy or sexual or pornographic. It is o.k. if you don't like the pictures and have none of yourself. It is o.k. for you to do this regardless of your age (as long as you are 18 or older in the US for the nakies) or race or shape or weight or the amount and location of the hair on your body or anything else you can think of. These pictures can be artistic or not, of good quality or poor quality or of no quality at all. You may take them yourself or have anyone else you want to take them of you. In short it is o.k. for you to do anything you please that doesn't hurt someone else in the process and anyone who tells you different is just plain wrong. Remember, in life, it's not what you do that matters as much as why you do it and only your motives, purposes and inspirations will determine the impact of your pictures on your heart and soul and life. No one has the right to judge you for this and if they do, so what. Other people are perfectly free to like your pictures, or not like like your pictures, look or not look, make good comments or bad comments, think you are a whore or not a whore, but never allow someone to to try and take away your freedom. Each of us has to suffer or triumph the consequences of our decisions and our pictures. This is called personal responsibility. I do not see how your pictures "hurt" me anymore than I can see how my pictures might "hurt" you. You are welcome to refer anyone who tells you otherwise to me and I will promptly sort them out for you. Facebook is free to censor the pictures or take away your account because you broke their rules, regardless of how stoopids this may be. It is their business and not ours and they can run it however they want to. How did the land of the free become the home of the ignorant in the first place? Hell if I know. Fellas, this applies to you too...and rabbits, let's not forget the rabbits. Oh, and I hope you realize that this Note is about much more than just pictures. Apr 27 16 05:55 pm Link Lisa Everhart wrote: td;dr Apr 27 16 06:23 pm Link Silly conversation that belongs to the kiddie table at the camera club. Thousands of hobbyists keep shooting the same boring, generic, derivative figure study with Rembrandt light with such self-complacency and never try anything new. Nothing wrong with that by itself but the sad thing is that they have the audacity of calling it "artistic nude". Nothing artistic in a mediocre genre shot but it's an effective buzzword to convince that naive, beautiful civilian to disrobe her gorgeous breasts for our lens. "We are creating art here, darling". The other day I saw a feature for a lingerie brand. The production was beautiful, the model was the loveliest I have seen in years and the photography was spectacular. If we ran a poll among members asking to define its genre some would label it as "boudoir", others would say "erotic", another member would go with "portraiture" or "editorial", the most conservative would go with "pornographic" and so on. Many shitty photographers in my area would say "lingerie" because apparently, "lingerie" is a genre too. Fuck labels. When you see the work produced by the best in the world they don't matter. Great photography is beyond these stupid definitions. Apr 27 16 07:11 pm Link |
