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<div class="MsoNormal">Immediately, my world became a different place. I was in a sterile space. My vision was blurred. All things were pale and swimming. Touches of blue and green danced in and out of my room. My body yielded pale beige and blood red. I went in and out of sleeping and waking life. But, I was in a dream the whole while. He dream was interrupted in short flashes by “reality.” There were stark awakenings: moments of sharp pain, needles and tubes being forced into and pulled from my body. My vessel, mostly nude, sometimes draped, was open for all whom collected a paycheck from the hospital. My mind was floating and my body was exposed inside and out. While hospital staff were examining, monitoring and photographing the insides of me, I chose to capture the outside as I was experiencing it. The outside as a distorted reality. </div>Poly Amoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04062050641915264920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391990537159246002.post-49423451091804768602011-04-25T13:12:00.000-07:002011-04-25T16:40:32.981-07:00Interview With Anne Wilkes Tucker Of MFAH<div class="MsoNormal">Anne Wilkes Tucker has been the head curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston since 1976. She is solely responsible for the photographic collection at the MFAH, as it was next to non-existent when she joined the museum in '76. In 2001, Time Magazine honored Tucker as "America's Best Curator."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I was honored that she offered me a bit of her time to answer a few questions. </div><div class="MsoNormal">_________________________________________________________</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: Do you have a favorite photographer? If so, who? And what attracts you to her or his work?<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A: I have done more with Robert Frank’s work than any other photographer. But, I’ve also done years of research on the Photo League (New York, 1936-1951). The thread in the photographers to whom I am committee is their passion and sense of urgency in communicating their vision of the world or at least of the world as they experience it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: At what point in your life or education did you realize photography was it for you? <o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A: I first was a photographer in college where I was majoring in art history. I later got a second undergraduate degree (an AAS degree – 2 year but done in 1 year) as a photographer before getting an MFA as a photo historian. That has been my focus since then. I’ve been a curator at the museum since 1976.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: What are some important questions you feel you should be left with after viewing a photograph or a body of work?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A: When I look at a photograph I ask, 'what does the photographer expect me to see' and 'what do they expect me to feel?' Also, are their decisions of craft appropriate to what they are seeking to convey?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q</b>: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What do you look for when choosing a photo for MFAH?<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A: Do I remember it days, even weeks, after I have seen it? Does it disturb or provoke or pleasure me? Are the ideas and images fresh? Is there a coherent body of work? Are there coherent bodies of work preceding this one?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">A: The two most demanding projects are a history of conflict photography and a book on the museum’s collection of photography?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The last time I was in Houston, I attended an opening at Spacetaker (at Winter Street Studios) and an opening at a downtown shoe store that had been converted to a gallery for the evening. Houston seems to have an ever-growing variety of spaces being created and used to show photography. <o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: How would you describe the role of the gallery in Houston? <o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A: There are two non-profit galleries specifically for photography (outside the museums), which are Houston Center for Photography and the FotoFest gallery. There are several commercial galleries devoted to photography: Cleary Gallery and De Santos. Many of the art galleries also represent photographers. These galleries present contemporary photography and keep all of us informed about what is happening in various ways.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: Would you say there is a need for or oversaturation of gallery space in Houston?<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In 2003, you were quoted by Texas Monthly:</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"When I wrote The Woman's Eye in 1973, very few women photographers were accepted in the elite of the field. That is no longer true. Photography has also had many important women as photo historians and curators. Nancy Newhall, Alison Gernsheim, Giselle Freund, and Grace Mayer were some of the important early women historians. I knew Nancy Newhall and Grace Mayer and admired both very much." <o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">A: Well women are the senior curators at SFMoMA, National Gallery, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Center for Creative for Photography, and Houston MFAH. Three women curators are directing the program at NYC MoMA while the director of the photography department is on sabbatical. That is a big switch. Women are holding positions of major photo editors at magazines, directors of art galleries, etc.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">A: Bevin Berring is director of HCP. Wendy Watriss is co-director of FotoFest.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I really appreciate the Eye On Third Ward collaboration between MFAH and Yates High School. I lived in Third Ward for 10 years before returning to college and I am very interested in community involvement through the arts. Inspired by this project and projects like Project Row House, it is my dream to create a not-for-profit community dark room, studio and gallery that will offer exposure of and access to photography in an areas of Houston that do not have the resources to explore this art form. <o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Q: In your opinion, is there a needed space for this type of project in Houston? Do you know of any similar projects? Other than Eye On Third Ward, does MFAH do much work with community centers/not-for-profits to increase access to photography, specifically?<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A: Besides what the above-mentioned galleries (profit and non-profit offer) The closest would be Project Row Houses which offers 3 month shows to artists. I don’t know if Michele Barnes still has her gallery. There is MECA for Latino artists. There is always a need for artists to have venues for their work. Diverse Works and Lawndale are others. Time and money are problems.</div>Poly Amoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04062050641915264920noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391990537159246002.post-5348734829724239912011-04-21T08:23:00.001-07:002011-08-12T20:59:39.493-07:00Broken<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was recently hospitalized for a few days after sustaining a spinal injury. I have been working with nudity, space and privacy in my photos a lot lately. This was an interesting experience, because it gave me a chance to explore my own feelings toward nudity. I have been working a lot to figure out a way to take sexuality and seduction out of my nude photos. When I was lying in the hospital being examined and feeling very vulnerable, I found my space where there was nothing sensual about nudity. My body was broken, so I decided to capture images of my own naked body in it's most broken state and the sterile space it inhabited. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><br />
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Peter Beste is nothing short of a celebrity in Houston and he is well known around the world. If you are interested in photography, ThirdCoast Rap or Norwegian Black Metal, the odds are good you’ve seen his work, even if you don’t know his name. He’s shot in Houston’s 5<sup>th</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> Wards, documenting many Houston Rappers, Texas truckers and local after-hour spots. He’s also done some really interesting work in Norway, documenting the Black Metal culture. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Are you from Brooklyn originally?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I've been here about 10 years. I'm from Texas! I grew up in Houston and went to college in Austin.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">That explains the greatness. What did you go to college for?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Photography. At St. Edwards university. I love St. Ed's.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">How was their Art Dept?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Art Dept was pretty minimal when I was there, but the Photocommunications Dept (which is what they call it) is great. Really good professors.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">So, did you listen to a lot of rap/hip hop growing up?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I went through periods of being into rap. I was really into the Geto boys and Ganksta NIP when they broke in 91. And I was into some commercial rap. But my music tastes are all over the place.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">And Norwegian metal?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I come from a punk rock/hardcore background. I was into metal also as a kid, but not norwegian black metal. I didn't get into that till college.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Is that what made you choose to shoot it? Or was there an aesthetic appeal ... or both?<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Both. I have strong childhood connections to the imagery and culture of rap and metal. Both seemed like perfect projects to me because I could photograph these reclusive individuals that fascinated me. For Norway, I was into the connection between black metal and ancient Norse Pagan religions. It kept me interested much longer because it had real cultural relevance. Houston is similar because I think that what has been going on in South Park, 3rd and 5th Wards in the last 25 years is very important and needs to be documented. Too bad I didn't start until 2004.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me <o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Better late than never.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I am sorry I missed out on 4th Ward. I got the idea for the Houston project in 2001 but didn't start till 04. I did a couple shoots in 4th ward before it was completely gentrified.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">So my next question was ... Do you think there was a moment in your childhood or adolescence when you saw an image or aesthetic that molded your work today? But you answered that. So, is there a specific image you can recall?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Definitely. The artwork of many of these metal, rap records (as well as other genres) helped shape my aesthetic. That mixed in with various photographers I became interested in during college.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Like who?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">As far as Houston goes, the artwork of Geto Boys, Point Blank, and Ganksta NIP really intrigued me. I love the aesthetic of early Mercyful Fate/King Diamond, Slayer, and many of the early Norwegian bands like Mayhem, Darkthrone and Burzum.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I think it's a subconscious connection. I just try to get to know my subjects as much as I can and get honest and realistic portraits of them in their environments, mixed in with some over the top or posed shots.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">What kind of camera/ what format did you use to shoot Houston Rappers? Same question for the Black Metal.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">35mm film Canon + Mamiya 645 Medium format + Canon 5D mark 2. For both.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Okay ... That's interesting. I fell in love with the 4x5 about a month ago. Now I have a backache all the time. Do you ever shoot large format?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Haha. 4x5 is beautiful, but I choose more portable formats because of the nature of my work and having to usually move quickly. Digital is getting better and better. Not that it can ever compare with 4x5.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">So, back to your comment about the posed shots. How does it work being an outsider coming into a foreign culture or subculture? How do you go about telling Ganksta NIP how to pose?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">It takes a bit of time to get accepted, but with Houston and Norway, it was a very natural process of getting to know the people and not play the role of a journalist.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There was a short discussion here about Twitter avis. I asked if @therealdevin420’s avi was one of PB’s photos. Turns out it’s the work of another Houston photographer, Mike Frost. <o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Scarface uses one of my photos for his twitter</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Yeah I saw that. I think I saw that that image was used in publications. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Scarface pic is from XXL.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Oh okay. But the Houston Rappers stuff was for Vice, correct?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">No, it was for me. Vice published a few of the images in their photo issue. But, I've never worked for them. They published the black metal book and I co-produced 2 videos for VBS, but that's it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">So, that's another thing I was curious about ... how did Vice discover you? Same for XXL. Did you pitch to them, or did they come to you?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I come up with my projects myself and fund them myself until I can get help or find jobs related to the topic. I do that so I can have control and not have anyone breathing down my neck. I showed my portfolio to vice in 2003 or so and got a few magazine shooting jobs. After I had been shooting the black metal stuff for 6 years I pitched the book idea to them in 2007. Same for XXL - I reached out to them</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I am really curious about how photographers get jobs, quite frankly. I am graduating in May. Stuff I should know.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">It's not easy. You've gotta hustle. And I kind of hate doing that, but it's part of the biz. That's why a good web presence is important, but that's obvious. The key is to shoot as much as possible for yourself and only publish the good stuff. When your portfolio is ready you can show it to you whoever you want.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Tell me a bit about the Chemtrails and Sedona skies. Is that your most recent work?<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Did you also use a mix of formats for those? I noticed some were 35mm.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">A couple were 35mm. I do mostly digital but when I was in AZ. I shot some medium format as well. I love my Mamiya!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I was wondering if there was some shift you were aware of or if it was just a natural progression into something different?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Just a natural progression. I don't want to be a music photographer. There are so many more things I want to explore. And I'm sick of "scenes." I've been part of too many in my life.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">You did a lot of outdoors stuff already. It was like it was bubbling under the surface the whole time.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I see that as a natural progression also. I just need to get these books out!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I really enjoyed Truckers, too. The image of the tattoos and the dirty nails is so interesting.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">That was a project while I was in college.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">So, you've done one book?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Two actually. A Japanese design company approached me in 2005 about publishing the black metal work. It was only a work in progress at the time, but they published an edition of 3000 of a beautifully packaged book.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Oh wow. So, two books at 32. An amazing portfoilio of work. That's really admirable.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Do you stay in contact with most of the people you shoot?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Some of them. I'm still pretty tight with a few guys in Norway and several guys in Houston. I'm very attached to both places. So, I'm sure I will continue to visit them for years to come.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Last question. Are there any artists that you would suggest or any Houston photographers I should keep an eye out for?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PB<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Mike Frost. He shot Paul Wall's album covers and many more. His website is <a href="http://www.slfemp.com/">www.slfemp.com</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Latin word ‘privo’ means to deprive. The word ‘private’ suggests separation from the rest. <o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">Private spaces exist differently for each person. The person that owns a given space and its privacy feels a sense of comfort or separation when in that space. The space can become a sanctuary. For intruders, the space is uneasy, something unknown, a new territory to discover. The merging of owner and intruder transform comfort into feelings of invasion. The moment of invasion is the moment when privacy is broken and tension is created. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, I shot a little more, I'll post the new images soon. I was also required to make a short film for a class. So, in one day, I shot some video footage on my Nikon D5000 and I put together this short film. My professor did a preview today and has some changes she'd like to see. I'll post more once I've worked those things out. For now, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3deRJ1iXxI">here's the rough draft</a>. Again, it's not great stuff, it's experimentation. But, it's been a fun week. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>As I said, this week has been a very playful one. I have been drawn to shadows, light, blur, water and tree branches. It's all I have shot all week. A friend reminded me about Uta Barth and I was I fell in love. She is right in line with my playful week. Her play with light, shapes, colors and composition through blur and shallow focus are all things I have been working on all week. Here's some of her work.<br />
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</div><div>I should be finished, but it's a start. </div>Poly Amoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04062050641915264920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391990537159246002.post-5656881675706507472011-02-14T22:30:00.000-08:002011-02-14T22:35:57.928-08:00Almost PornSo, this weekend I set out on a new venture. I set up the lighting. I oiled up the girls and I created a bad plot. It took me a few shots to realize that the angles were all wrong. I am used to shots that cut off heads or parts of heads. I like cropping body parts and I like drastic lighting. That doesn't really work when going for the glossy aesthetic I was attempting. But, I kept altering my style and I pushed through 4 hours of shooting in an attempt to make porn.<br />
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Afterward, I felt the way I do after most shoots. I was unsure of what my work would yield. In the same shoot, I shot with my Nikon D5000, my Canon AE-1, my cell phone and a recently purchased Holga (medium format) camera. Shooting with the intent of <i>replicating</i> porn was not easy. I saw <i>replicating</i>, because I was not <i>making</i> actual porn. I wasn't given a budget. I didn't have the right target audience in mind, my models aren't trying to make a buck or break into acting. They were just friends willing to do me a favor that would yield nudes they could show their boyfriends. I didn't have access to a house in Miami. So, what I was attempting was to recreate an aesthetic that would get me as close to porn as possible. Which poses an interesting question; if the photos I took weren't porn, what were they?<br />
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The next day, I ran some text prints to see what came out. I had an interesting finding. The shoot started off awkward and uncomfortable. The photos revealed this. My angles were off. I am used to shooting in a certain way and so I had to make some adjustments. But, what I realized when printing the photos was that there are two important factors in creating a porn aesthetic: sequencing and facial expressions. The photos I had of the women straddling each other didn't feel as much like magazine porn as the photos of them looking a book topless, because the facial expressions were off. But, once I put that photo next to the one with a doe-eyed college student studying, an overly literal narrative was formed and the photos started taking shape. Mind you, they still weren't porn, but they had more of the aesthetic of porn.<br />
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But, the whole venture left me with the question, <i>What am I asking of my viewer? </i>What is it about nudity in photography that makes the shots easily categorizable? What makes it pornography? What makes it art? What makes it humiliation? And how can I blur the lines of the intimate, the humiliating, the titillating and the informative, to offer something that poses a problem for the viewer? <br />
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The Polaroid opened the door for amateur nudes. It allowed for a personal experience with a very personal setting. The shots could be taken, developed and viewed without the embarrassment of having to enter a photomat cloaked in a hoodie and shades. They offered the ultimate in privacy in nude photography. A polaroid, like a digital image has the possibility of only having one viewer. In all, likelihood, the average Polaroid had at least two viewers. <br />
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While the personal, private nature is one common characteristic between the Polaroid and digital photo, the opportunity for mass exposure is where the two forms differ greatly. The chances of a Polaroid being mailed off, printed and seen en masse was highly unlikely. The amateur nude model/photographer of the 80s needed only worry about the possible embarrassment of a parent or child stumbling upon the shoebox in which the nudes were stored. The amateur of the digital age has a whole different bag of worries. Nowadays, it's become all too likely to open a gossip page or online news page and find the text/email/FB message/Twitpic bearing the nude likeness of a celebrity or politician. And, with sites like <a href="http://www.amateurs-gone-wild.com/">Amateurs Gone Wild</a>, even the average person stands a chance at/risk of being posted for millions to see.<br />
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The Polaroid nude and the digital nude exist for very similar reasons. They offer an intimate way to be the voyeur and the subject without having to enter into a new profession and without having to date a porn star. So, while the intent behind the Polaroid nude and the digital nude are very similar, the consequences have changed greatly over the years. What was once an intimate gesture stored in the shoe box under one's bed is now the intimate gesture that can accessed by anyone with a few simple strokes of the keyboard.<br />
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Even though they generally bare the same poses and images, the Polaroid nude and the digital nude have a wholly different feel. There is a certain innocence behind the Polaroid that does not exist with its digital counterpart. The intent is lost and the possible consequence takes on the major role. There is a risk in the digital nude that was more minute in the instant nudes of the past. Perhaps this adds a new allure, but it definitely sets the two categories apart. <br />
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Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House, of his decision in a letter he sent Wednesday afternoon after the scandal erupted.</div><div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Mr. Lee’s office released a statement late Wednesday in which he asks for forgiveness. “I regret the harm that my actions have caused my family, my staff and my constituents,’’ he said. “I deeply and sincerely apologize to them all. I have made profound mistakes and I promise to work as hard as I can to seek their forgiveness.’’</div><div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Mr. Lee won his district, located in Western New York, in 2008, when he ran in place of Thomas Reynolds, who had announced his retirement.</div><div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Last year, another upstate New York congressman, Eric J. Massa, a Democrat,<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/nyregion/06massa.html?ref=ericjmassa"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">resigned amid accusations that he had groped a male aide</span></a>.</div><div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Mr. Lee’s decision to step down came <a href="http://gawker.com/#!5755071/married-gop-congressman-sent-sexy-pictures-to-craigslist-babe"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">after a photo of him without a shirt appeared on Gawker</span></a> along with e-mail exchanges that reportedly took place between him and a 34-year-old woman from Maryland who had placed a personal notice in the “women seeking men” section of Craigslist. The woman’s posting complained about the lack of attractive men on the Web site: “Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?”</div><div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Mr. Lee responded, saying he was a lobbyist and a “fit fun classy guy.” He describes himself as 39 (he is 46) and divorced and writes, “I promise not to disappoint.”</div><div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">When the woman asks if he routinely sends shirtless photos of himself to women on Craigslist, Mr. Lee responds, “Sorry, it’s all I had.” They later exchange e-mails discussing unsatisfying dates with others, and Mr. Lee mentions a woman who did not live up to her description. “She was not as advertised,” he says.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The woman told Gawker that she cut off communication after searching for Mr. Lee online and concluding that he had lied about his age and occupation.</span></div>Poly Amoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04062050641915264920noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391990537159246002.post-27148427449499080162011-02-03T13:36:00.000-08:002011-02-03T13:38:23.485-08:00Time, Light And MovementThis is a new shoot I did. I wanted to work with extended shutter times and multiple flashes. We were in a completely dark room. I set the shutter speed of my Nikon D5000 to 2 seconds and I released an external flash, instructed my model to move and released the flash again while the shutter remained open.<br />
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