artandrevolution wrote:i love these debates.
First of all. As a female and artist I find most of the photographs to be just bad snapshots and objectifying women. I dont particularly see any evidence of someone trying to use the camera to study the female figure. Just someone who likes tits and ass.
I suppose if you (the shooter) were going for just that then, well, ok. But as a man (as i suspect you are), and if you are truly inspired in an artistic sense, I suggest you study how in this society, men consistently objectify women and how you are part of the problem, and not the solution.
If you just like shooting tits and ass, I'd suggest you try getting more action from your wife or girlfriend or bringing your camera in the bedroom. It would be more creative either way.
Why do I "objectify" a woman, if I desire her? Who are you to judge that I do not respect her as a human being, just because I desire her?
Furthermore, let's take the first shot in this thread - the one of a woman bending over a fence. Is she just an innocent victim who solely wears a very short and very thin dress because it's hot outside? Or is she a woman confident in her own attractiveness who enjoys being noticed and, indeed, desired? Quite obviously the latter. Why is the desiring man, then, more guilty than her? And why is the photographer more guilty than any other man - or woman - who desired her that day (or any other day)?
Finally, by what divine powers do you know that a man who desires other women than his wife, does not get - or give - enough at home? By what divine powers do you claim that is wrong to desire other people than ones wife, husband etc?