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more on the words
Posted By: D. Brian Nelson (216.55.130.203)
Location: San Diego
Date: Sunday, 7 March 2004, at 11:18 a.m.
Yesterday there was some productive talk about what this forum should be. Ultimately the administrators will make that decision and, using the mighty delete button, will enforce their collective and disparate visions.
I do expect to participate here. My work these days is all about sex - mostly some fetishy categories, though as they become more open and popular they no longer really meet the requirements of "fetish." Here's the big surprise boys and (presumably) girls: BDSM isn't "fetish" anymore - it's mainstream. Calling it "fetish" is like calling the new Oldsmobile "exciting." It's marketing.
"Erotic" is a wonderful word. Anything intended to be erotic announces the intent that the work will make women wet and/or men hard. Nothing less, nothing more. I figure at my age if a photograph gets me thinking sex, rather than composition/exposure/grain/technique, it worked.
So how does one critique an erotic photograph? Seems to me the best review would be something like "makes me hot." Any photograph that begs a technical critique has already failled the first gate. Such is the overwhelming power of the requirement to be "erotic" above all else.
-Don
Next: Should the power of the picture be judged by the photographer's experience in making it?
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