Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i'm looking for the "like" button you tell it uncle t ric On Aug 29, 2010, at 6:46 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Philippe Amard offered: > >>> All part of the European motleyed culture, which " Lluis's Legs " are >>> part and parcel of. > Great photograph in the long standing tradition. <<<< > > Bon Jour Philippe, > Certainement! > The Devil is a woman (M. Dietrich, and Bardot later) :-) > > Lluis picture is beautiful in it's advertising simplicity! We see legs and > bare bottoms, at least I didn't say "bare boobs!" nearly every time we > pick-up a magazine, fashion or photography. > > I'm quite surprised how a B&W / colour photograph of some woman's legs can > be seen in a negative " not a nice kind of photo to be seen by the public > because it degrades women?" Or some other inane reason! > > Actually the truth is those with "DIRTY MINDS" turned it into a "DIRTY" > photograph. Get over it, it's not degrading in the least! Just look at the > checkout counter "REAL TRASH HOLLYWOOD SLUTS TRASH MAGS" if you want to > see degrading women! > > Let's look at the same picture in this context? A completely different > context which could happen to some of the professional shooters on list! > Me included as I shot fashion in Canada & Paris in the mid sixties... Oh > my goodness those Paris models.............. .Oh la la! OK no more, what > happens in Paris? ;-) Stays in Paris! :-) > > If Lluis offered this about his picture: "I was asked to shoot some > fashion pictures today of women's new style nylons blended with silk and > here is one of the photos chosen by the advertising agency!" That's it! > Actually quite clean and simple! There wouldn't have been one negative > comment the likes we've seen! > > So get over it and your minds out of the gutter and think it's just a > photograph because the photographer was "observant" and saw a photographic > moment without any twisted mind! My heavens sometimes I wonder? > > Dr. Ted Grant! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information