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IS nude photography rapidly taking over the world?
From all the cell phone uploads and recent hacks of celebrities selfies and whatever else on people's phones, it might be on a rise for the cellular crowd. Sep 26 14 07:35 pm Link Rob Photosby wrote: Last I checked, the UK was English-speaking... Sep 26 14 07:50 pm Link In general, in modern times, extroverts rule. Extroverts define norms. (In the OLDEN days, a few select kings/priests could set the norms, and more boundaries = more power/control. No more.) The people who get in the public eye, and climb to the top of public office are extroverts, the more stimulation the better. If information is power, and technology allows more users to spread information, and pictures; and more extroverts are spreading more shock value images, then it is only logical that there will be more and more content that was previously off limits. I know people have painted and photographed nudes since the garden of eden, but the volume and style are definitely expanding. The access to the means, technology, guarantees that. When I was a kid, 70s, a murder on a TV show would be a camera shot of the bad guy looking mean, "You're gonna get it" a gun in a gloved hand, the victim looking horrified, the camera backing out of the doorway, the door closing, a scream and bang, maybe a flash of light. You didn't actually see someone get shot. The act of shooting someone in a TV show wasn't common until the 80s. Blood in the 90s. Now we have slow-mo hi-def cross section CT images of bullets tearing through the body, and the bone fragments exploding outward. Even in old westerns where dozens of people got shot, you might see a tiny hole and drip of blood. Now you see heads exploding and tissue/goo splattering. What was once off limits is now mainstream. When I was a kid there were nudes, in Playboy, stashed in the closet. I could look at them for a few minutes a day. Now I can take gigabytes with me everywhere I go, and access billions of pictures 24/7 online; along with videos of anything and everything. Yeah, it's different. Since the power of religions is declining, and/or converting to political power, the backlash against nudity and other 'offending' stuff will be less severe and less frequent. (Plus religious norms are shifting.) Fine art nudes will always be the same. But outside of that, some people will keep pushing the boundaries just to see what they can get away with. That has always been the case, there have always been extremists, but now they don't need the establishment to publish, so there are fewer filters. The more people see the wild stuff, the more 'normal' it is. Normal will continue to shift; maybe back to where it was before we had morality dictated by monarchs, and people wore clothes if they wanted. Maybe someday normal will progress all the way back to the garden of eden, pre-clothes, pre-marriage, pre-church, pre-money, pre-greed, pre-racism. You can only hope. Sep 26 14 10:15 pm Link DougBPhoto wrote: Amen to that. No booze, and if the model isn't aware that they're going to be posing nude BEFORE the shoot, then it doesn't happen. Sep 26 14 10:22 pm Link Well, everyone has great technically advanced cameras and cell phones now, so everyone who wants to call themselves a photographer, is now a photographer. And many of those photographers like to take naked photos. Thing is, I don't think I see a larger quantity of high quality nude photos compared to when photographers were still shooting film and printing nudes in the darkroom. Now they just post their, "they're ok" nude photos online. Sep 26 14 11:01 pm Link meget wrote: I'm sure someone has addressed this, if they have consider this a +1. Sep 27 14 11:44 am Link A friend sent me a link last night to a blogsite named "Every Woman is Beautiful". I made it through 20 pages and was amazed by the number of images women had taken in the bathroom. "Selfies", if you will. We are flooded with sexual images almost constantly. It seems to be a great sales aid for many products. I think, due to this, nudity is far more accepted today than it was in the past, even during the eras that master painters focused on it. Seems that if you have a rockin' bod you are more apt to be open to showing if off, or at least some folks may feel that way. The thing is, you will only have it for a while. Nudity is up to the individual and their own acceptance of it. Now me, I've refused to bring forth children until I'm sure the medical field can deliver my new offspring fully clothed, tux and tails preferably. Sep 27 14 12:09 pm Link Just a bunch of guys with cameras who want to see which girl will take their clothes off. That's what I see. Not necessarily photography. Sep 27 14 12:17 pm Link Don Garrett wrote: I agree. Sep 27 14 12:31 pm Link I have done over 200 photo shoots in my recently started 2 year modeling career and I was never persuaded into anything I would not want to do. Sorry you have to witness that happening in the industry. Maybe it is normal for Russia? I've never modeled there even though I am from there originally and go back to visit pretty often. Oct 22 14 12:27 pm Link As a society we have certainly become more open towards nudity and sex in general. It stands to logic that pictures of people will reflect their beliefs and surroundings at the time the image was taken. Nothing wrong with that. Oct 22 14 12:43 pm Link Nude photography is boring unless you have a model that is completely on board and willing to do something cool and artistic. "Here's my tits" type shots aren't that exciting. I do a lot of boudoir photos and 95% of the time, I'd rather they brought an amazing outfit and just left their clothes on. Oct 22 14 12:55 pm Link i hadn't planned on shooting nude models when i joined mayhem but after a while it was like "what the heck, when in rome ..." plus there were some great traveling nude models available in my area. and ultimately we did manage to get paid for shooting boudoir for ladies as a gift to give to their man (although honestly i think it was as much about her as him). in terms of plying models with alcohol in order to talk them into stuff i don't think that's a good idea. if you want a nude model then book a nude model. some photographers provide alcohol to help the model relax and that's more of a gray area. i guess the main thing is don't take advantage. either the model wants to shoot nudes or they don't and hopefully this was worked out in advance of the shoot. i have had non-nude models suddenly get topless but that was their choice (no alcohol involved). however, providing alcohol to relax someone is common in the boudoir industry and sometimes you do encourage your customer to push it a bit but i think that's kind of expected and part of the "bucket list" appeal of the shoot. that said we did have one husband who got mad (there was no nudity on that shoot) and another situation where the lady never got back to us with her selects (she did do some awesome implied nudes with her husband's hard hat and tools). as to why nudes are popular. well, duh. seriously though i wonder if you took all the money out of it how many would still do it. but there are lots of TF nude shoots. how about if you took all the exhibitionism out of it? if the images were only for private consumption. then how many tf shoots would happen? i think i'd still do it because the shoots are usually fun. do women like staring at pictures of naked men? i was under the assumption that was more of a gay thing although i guess some women do enjoy male stripper shows. Oct 22 14 01:12 pm Link I don't shoot nudes. The farthest I go is implied. If the model has her shirt off I make her wear pasties. But I definitely prefer clothed shoots to implied shoots. Just my personal taste though. So from my perspective, I wouldn't say nudes are taking over. Oct 22 14 02:20 pm Link No......nudes are mostly getting common because of cell phone selfies, that people take of themselves. If they were getting that common.......you wouldn't be hearing all the negative comments about models, especially the ones about models backing out of shoots. Guys simply don't care as much. However, guys are not that much in demand, as models either, except for genuine commercial jobs. Oct 22 14 03:21 pm Link The Hellenistic period and the Renaissance definitely seem obsessed with "nudes". Art seems to have suffered terribly during those times.  Oct 22 14 04:08 pm Link Penumbra Photography wrote: Where do you get your pasties? My eyes still haven't recovered from the last time I saw a woman's nipples. Every time I blink I see nipples and a little voice on my shoulder tells me I'm going to hell. Oct 22 14 09:25 pm Link As world resources become scarce (due to global market manipulation and greed perpetuated by central bankers), clothing will become smaller and near-nudity more common. Apparel will be made with less and less fabric in the years to come. The good news is that more skin exposure will reduce vitamin D deficiency and allow people to think more clearly so that evil-doers will be exposed to the masses and dealt with. I am getting a jump on this up and coming fashion trend by launching a new website: http://www.Loincloths.org It's just logical.  Oct 23 14 11:35 am Link Good Egg Productions wrote: Then you are late to the party. Google: Hohle Fels Venus Oct 26 14 03:10 am Link I blame those damned Greeks! Oct 26 14 05:51 am Link Noah Russell wrote: Haha, it's definitely not a 'Oh gawd, the sight of nipples is burned into my brain!' kind of thing, I want my models to feel comfortable in front of my camera. I find that if they wear pasties, they don't have that nagging sensation that there will be a nip slip. Thus, it lets them open up a little more with posing. Nov 04 14 01:42 pm Link Penumbra Photography wrote: imh experience, most models haven't let this worry them. Nov 04 14 09:48 pm Link I truly hate this cheap tabloid style of writing. Nothing is taking over anything. Nov 04 14 09:59 pm Link IS nude photography rapidly taking over the world? I do not think so, unfortunately, because if a day happened something like that finally would end all the dramas relating to this genre. Nov 05 14 12:48 am Link Darryl Varner wrote: Just mentioning that the op is a young good looking male model... Nov 05 14 01:04 am Link KyndraJ wrote: Once again jut saying the op is a male model... Nov 05 14 01:07 am Link meget wrote: Simply to the law of market regard demand and offer for a specific job, nothing more nothing less. Nov 05 14 01:28 am Link  Nov 05 14 11:41 pm Link |
