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| The Artistic Nude...
Posted: 9/15/2007 6:38:11 AM | Artz,
Thank you for caring and advising sanity. You're absolutely right. My best friend, who is also an artist, was going to be here too, but when I realized how vulnerable I was making myself I cancelled out. It would be great to set something up with the opportunity to do some actual drawing. I find myself doing it in my head all the time, but those never make it to paper. Not just the full nude, but interesting hands, features or expressions of people in places like school, airports, malls, etc. I'm better about discretion at this point, but have had to apologize and explain why I was staring a few times. Do you ever find yourself doing that? Does anyone else? How do you find someone willing to model for a small group? I have a brother who would be comfortable with it but he lives a thousand miles away and when I do see him the time is totally scheduled so it hasn't really worked so far. There is a reasonable artist community here that could support it if we could find the models. | |
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| The Artistic Nude...
Posted: 9/17/2007 7:55:21 AM | >> I thought this was about posing nude for an artist, but it seems it's
>> become more a concern about digital access.
>> As an artist, I really appreciate the chance to draw a nude.
>> The only time I cared about the physical attributes of the model was in the 70's
I saw the title, and took a look. I've been doing the artistic nude -- photographically -- for decades. The one thing that stuck out in my mind, is how different the world is today, than "in the 70's" and I was there... and remember it :) Today, everyone has cell phone cameras, so they may sneak a picture or two to "finish" the work at home, but then send the photo to someone else, since "she was only a model" and before you know it, the photos are in your mail box "Do you know who she is? I hear she models on campus."
So, just a caution, that even art models are at risk for exploitation.
And, the point about Vanessa Hudgens... those photos were "just for her boyfriend." ....
There are a lot of people reading these threads who do not post, and they deserve the benefit of a different view of what "posing" can lead to in their lives. It's not for everyone. | |
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Posted: 9/19/2007 10:41:50 AM | ^^^^Yes and Photos taken in the 1970s could be published in Penthouse magazine. they had a section for amature Photographers could send in photos. Those old photos can still find their way onto the Internet. If you are at all embarrassed about your body then chances are you are not going to pose in the first place.
I'm sure that there are some people who are now in their 40's 50's or beyound that might not like the idea of an old Photo surfacing. then again there is a Lady I know that is 60 somthing year old. She is very proud of the body on the young girl she once was. | |
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Posted: 9/20/2007 1:09:55 PM | Not to dig this up... the idea is that if you send a digital image to someone, email, website, camera, etc. The photo can be copied and pop up anywhere, any time. Most people don't think of that as "posing" and they may feel "secure" because they took some polaroids, which probably deteriorated already, but don't realize that those photos from the 70's *ARE* finding their way on-line, and people have been very unpleasantly surprised.
Guys want girls to send them nude photos -- it's all over the dating sites, women talk about it, etc. I only want to point out the _risks_ that people who read these threads may not be aware of.
Cell phones and PDA's get stolen.
Computers get stolen.
Email gets hacked (Gmail accounts, for instance, can store huge amounts of photos).
So, if you pose, or send photos, just *ASSUME* that the person you send them to is not going to be the only one who sees them, and realize that they may get out -- and if your job or "real life" wouldn't handle it ... DON'T DO IT! Even posing for an art class now, cameras are everywhere. In the 80's, you could be pretty sure that only the "art" was going to be the result. Cameras were not easy to hide. Now, someone "answering" a cell phone can snap a picture or two.
I have been working with models for over 3 decades, and have seen a lot of problems, even before digital. Lives have been ruined, families broken up, and more. Today, it's so much easier....
Art is beautiful, but people posing for art are still people, with other lives. They need to understand the risks today in this electronic age. "privacy" is becoming an alien concept.
Scott | |
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