RE: [Leica] Some may find this of interest

["Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>]

> > > > > Certainly looks like they were into bondage by the looks of
> > > the site...
> > > >
> > > > No, Tim, it looks like they took pictures of that as the
> > subject matter,
> > > > that in NO WAY means THEY "were into" it.
> > > >
> > > > Austin
> > >
> > > Oh - sorry, I get it - it's a documentary exploration of soft porn...?
> >
> > Are you just that clueless, Tim, that you simply don't
> understand that, or
> > are you just being a fool?
> >
>
> Austin,
>
> If someone (male) takes soft-porn photographs of someone
> ((female) else (not
> glamour, not really erotica), what are the reasons they are doing
> it? Money?
> (to sell), personal pleasure? What else? Can you argue that it's
> done out of
> admiration for the beauty of the "classical" female form?
>
> Give me the honest reason such photographs are taken.

Tim,

Obviously, you have never done ANY model portfolio work, or simply been a
professional studio photographer.  I've many times been asked (when I owned
a studio, and did a lot of model portfolio work) to do shoots about things
that weren't my "forte"...or I just happened to have an idea for a shoot,
and decided I wanted to do it...and again, it had not a thing to do with my
"preference" for anything like I was photographing.  If I take pictures of
motorcycles, does that mean I am into motorcycles?  Why else would I want to
do it, by your "logic"?

One of my photographers, who WAS a very close friend of mine, did a LOT of
bondage type of photographs with his models (a lot of whom were strippers,
but mind you, he wasn't into strippers, he just happened to photograph a
few, and because he did it well, and they liked his work, his name got
around in that circle).  And I KNOW for a fact, he was not into that.  Ever
think that the woman may be the one "into" that?

And anyway, bondage is not illegal as far as I know...unless someone does it
to you forcefully.  Anyway, what YOU consider art, someone else may not, and
what someone else considers "art" or "fun to photograph" doesn't mean YOU
have to understand it.

If you photograph children, does that make you a pedophile?

Austin

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