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A fellow artist and friend of mine posted this link earlier today about an economist, i.e. an intelligent woman posing nude for the first time. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre … -women-sex Your thoughts? May 18 14 04:13 pm Link M U S E wrote: Great I think more people should pose nude. While not overtly provocative I think her nude portrait is subtly sexy! May 18 14 04:21 pm Link BRAVO ! May 18 14 04:24 pm Link Awesome!! May 18 14 04:25 pm Link "Their second reaction may come when they read the name plaque and find "Dr Victoria N Bateman, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. As I have seen myself in the gallery, people are often shocked when they realise that the naked image stood before them is an intelligent woman." If this woman is so intelligent why can't she spell "realize"? I find models who do this as a profession much more intelligent, having to plan and set up photo shoots, learn makeup, wardrobe design, posing techniques, negotiating skills, and the ability to judge photographers qualifications and intentions quickly. May 18 14 04:44 pm Link GNapp Studios wrote: Have you been to England? The whole country can't spell it! May 18 14 04:53 pm Link GNapp Studios wrote: Difference in British and American spellings of the word. May 18 14 04:54 pm Link M U S E wrote: Many women like to pose nude. A lady that I work with wants me to photograph her nude. May 18 14 05:03 pm Link NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: Haha. Amazing. May 18 14 05:05 pm Link Haha!! Just be glad it wasn't my doctor!! He's a heavyset wrinkled old man!:-))) May 18 14 05:18 pm Link M U S E wrote: I find the wording here ("an intelligent woman") to be interesting. May 18 14 05:21 pm Link "The first response of the viewer may be to notice that the portrait is different to most contemporary images of nude women: there are no fake implants, false nails, fake tan, or other types of aesthetic treatments. This is, instead, an image of a real woman – not one that has been added to, worked on or Photoshopped, with the aim of satisfying sexual desire." I don't think most contemporary images of nude women have fake implants, nor do I think women who have them aren't "real women". To say your PAINTING is more real because it hasn't been worked on or photoshopped is utterly retarded. To say your portrait is more real because it's not sexual is utterly retarded, it's still a 2D representation of a women. "As I have seen myself in the gallery, people are often shocked when they realise that the naked image stood before them is an intelligent woman. Perhaps what this reveals is that people simply do not imagine that behind each nude is a thinking and breathing human being. It is a mistake that I hope they won't make again." Maybe that's because people keep making generalisations about models and "real" women. May 18 14 05:44 pm Link It must be a slow day at the guardian, there are many intelligent women and men who pose nude May 18 14 05:58 pm Link Karl JW Johnston wrote: I don't think Dr. Bateman knows this...haha May 18 14 06:50 pm Link M U S E wrote: Many of my models are students, so they are intelligent enough to get into university. May 18 14 07:22 pm Link Rob Photosby wrote: Nor an intelligent man (as has been mentioned above). May 18 14 07:29 pm Link Oops. Sorry. May 18 14 07:40 pm Link I have noticed in over thirty years that those in the medical professions are rarely uptight about nudity. I have suspected that it is because they are in contact with nudity on a daily basis and do not necessarily associate it with sexuality. This is true weather they are clients to acquire art or they themselves becoming works of art. May 18 14 07:49 pm Link Really wonderful and empowering, more ordinary women who aren't models should do this. Women who visit the gallery and see this art will realize that nudity does not equal sexual, and that she has just as beautiful a body as any model. May 18 14 08:57 pm Link Just finished watching an hour long video about Lucian Freud. Many are nudes and many take up t a year or more to complete. He talks to his subject the entire time, really getting to know them. The images are breath taking. I was impressed by the men and women who commented on his images May 18 14 09:11 pm Link there is no debate going on about the visual depiction of women in PAINTING just photographs and films- dumb point she's trying to make May 18 14 09:40 pm Link Very nice! This is quite lovely to read. Thank you for sharing! May 18 14 09:41 pm Link SEI Photos wrote: If we made you guys pay to use English, you'd take a bit more care to spell things correctly. May 19 14 02:42 am Link Eugenya wrote: Um, me too.... I pose nude and am a doctoral student (although I guess it's debatable whether that equates to intelligent May 19 14 03:42 am Link Ida Saint-Luc wrote: It seems to me, the woman who wrote it. May 19 14 04:08 am Link GNapp Studios wrote: She can spell realise, it's you Americans who cann't. Not only does your use of English differ from this side of the pond but your spelling does too. As it's the English language, I think it's fair to say that their version of it and it's spelling is the more correct version. May 19 14 05:18 am Link Fantastic, wonderful stuff and speaks of the soul. MIchael May 19 14 05:26 am Link Touching on the word "intelligent", the entire paragraph is "Their second reaction may come when they read the name plaque and find "Dr Victoria N Bateman, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. As I have seen myself in the gallery, people are often shocked when they realise that the naked image stood before them is an intelligent woman." I believe Dr. Bateman is commenting on the common perception that only stupid women pose nude rather than that she, specifically, is intelligent. I fairly frequently have models ask to pose nude without the pictures being published, just for the experience of it, and I think every photographer who shoots nudes has been asked to remove from publication nude pictures of models who have had family, friends, etc. shocked at the fact that they have posed nude. One young woman posed with me regularly for several months with the proviso that only her clothed pictures, not her nude ones, be published, because of her job. She had great fun shooting nudes--called it feeding her inner harlot. I say Bravo! to Dr Bateman and wish there were more of her. And I truly wish that in our own community, we would discard the notions of GWC and GWLM (Girl With Loose Morals) when speaking of those of us that shoot nudes for the simple pleasure of it. We would all benefit from less posturing and more posing. All IMHO as always, of course. May 19 14 06:41 am Link Ida Saint-Luc wrote: Stupid people! May 19 14 06:44 am Link GER Photography wrote: Pray tell. What is wrong with heavy set wrinkly old men? May 20 14 02:50 am Link Good for her! . May 20 14 08:09 am Link NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: This made me laugh! May 20 14 09:47 am Link "The first response of the viewer may be to notice that the portrait is different to most contemporary images of nude women: there are no fake implants, false nails, fake tan, or other types of aesthetic treatments. This is, instead, an image of a real woman – not one that has been added to, worked on or Photoshopped, with the aim of satisfying sexual desire." Heresy! May 20 14 10:04 am Link GNapp Studios wrote: Because this woman is British/English (the creators of the English language :-P) and it's us Americans that spell the word realise incorrectly. Just as we spell colour and humour wrong as well. :-) NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: What you did there, I see it ;-) May 20 14 10:11 am Link Oh and good for her! Perhaps one day people will stop assuming that only unintelligent airheads who have nothing going for them are the only ones that shoot nudes. May 20 14 10:13 am Link Thank goodness, finally an intelligent "nekid broad" . . .  Yep, it really is hilarious that people think just because a beautiful, successful woman is nude in an artwork, that she suddenly doesn't have a brain in her head . . . now, if she had a staple in her belly button, and the "artwork" folded in two places, that may be a different story . . . that would mean she was working her way through school . . . I've photographed many a successful woman in various stages of undress, most have said the feeling of empowerment, and freedom was exhilarating, and many have worked with me on several occasions . . . I wonder if Condoleezza Rice might ever answer one of my casting calls . . . SOS May 20 14 10:28 am Link NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: After all, where did the language come from in the first place ? May 20 14 10:31 am Link Why do people worry so muchaabout the human body? It seems the more we "advance " the less nature is acceptable.... In the end its just a body. Beautiful intricate system comprised of cells and stardust The shape means nothing if our minds restrict it. May 20 14 10:51 am Link Absolutely brilliant. Because a body is just a body and is far more sexualized and scandalous than it should be. May 20 14 10:37 pm Link Think of all the dumb models that do nudes,,all out of work, even the TFP ones. Every photographer will be looking for only PHD's or better,lol. I think she made her point about the way most look at the body,, but smarts should not of been part of it. For the record,some of the smartest book people I know can't do or understand the simplest things,, because, I mean,, it would take a very smart women to think of do this, no smart women has never done this and it would take a smart women to do this right and to show the world it could be done,right? I noticed there was nothing in the painting that said she was Dr. or smart,,, All the Homies are goin to think some dumb bitch doin a spread,,again... Above all everyone deserves respect, Nude or naked, smart or not, printed or painted, that is where we should start. May 21 14 12:30 am Link |
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