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How many ways can you photograph the same person?
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I remember going to an exhibit in the mid-90s. It was titled Jane 2000. It was two thousand quite different photos. Of Jane. (The artist's wife, supposedly.) From iconographic to pornographic. Plus one that was an x-ray, and one jammed-into-the-Xerox shot. 
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Tis a good promo, that's why I went there, but it really doesn't come across as a porn site to me on visiting. Just a fascinating collection of photos, some quite good, some quite silly. I likes it.CharleyH said:I could write a promo like this, it is good promo, but a porn site is a porn site.
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Liar said:
I wanna buy her a sammich.
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Alessia Brio said:
uh huh.... poor girl... someone give her a meatball sub
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Interesting idea.
BlackShanglan
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I quite like days 55 and 24, but I really wince at seeing an adult naked with her stuffed animal. Just feels horribly wrong.
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...too.minsue said:
Selena_Kitt
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she's still at it....
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You are all such cynics - love I call it!
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I don't know how many ways, but I adored that scene in "the L Word" where the rare, divine photograph was revealed to Bette and she had the experience of the sublime described by Stendahl upon seeing a Caravaggio painting. Peggy Peabody recited the passage as a slightly intoxicated Bette dissolved into a rapture of joy upon seeing the photo.
Peggy: He went to Florence. He saw the Caravaggio.
Bette: And then he burst into tears, and then he fainted. The work of art was so beautiful and moving, he couldn't withstand the impact. The "Stendahl Syndrome".
Peggy: "My head thrown back, I let my gaze dwell on the ceiling. I underwent the profoundest experience of ecstacy I had ever encountered."
Why do I post it here? The photographer was a live-fast-die-young arist who had photographed the same woman over and over for ten years.
Peggy: He went to Florence. He saw the Caravaggio.
Bette: And then he burst into tears, and then he fainted. The work of art was so beautiful and moving, he couldn't withstand the impact. The "Stendahl Syndrome".
Peggy: "My head thrown back, I let my gaze dwell on the ceiling. I underwent the profoundest experience of ecstacy I had ever encountered."
Why do I post it here? The photographer was a live-fast-die-young arist who had photographed the same woman over and over for ten years.
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I liked day 1 #1 and day 90, but the contrast needs a little work. I LOVED day 24.
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Polyfoto
When Og and his siblings were young (RL young, not as Og, King of Bashan), High Street photographers used to take Polyfotos.
The young child would be sat in front of the camera and the parents would try to attract its attention, get the child to look left, right, up, down etc. The photographer would shoot 60 consecutive pictures that would eventually be printed as a large contact sheet.
The parents could choose any of the pictures to be enlarged and produced in a frame.
Most children under three would burst into tears from the repeated flashes before the 60 shots were completed. Often the pictures of the distressed child were the most poignant in later life.
Fond parents might have several Polyfotos taken at intervals through a child's development. I have three sets of my brother, two of my sister, and only one of me - the novelty wears off after the first child.
Polyfotos were often taken of girls throughout their lives. The photographer would have clothing and props so that the girl could appear as a fairy, as Wonderwoman, as a Victorian maiden etc. Polyfotos of brides were popular in the 1950s but since every shot had to be taken in the studio the preparation took a long time. The bride had to be presented as she would appear on her wedding day, dress, hair and cosmetics.
A local photographer still takes pictures of babies as 'fairies' with gauze wings, tiaras, wands etc in a ferny grotto. What the baby will make of the picture when a grungy teenager is anyone's guess. 'Hey Wayne! You looked like a fairy!' might elicit a physical retort.
Some artists, e.g. David Hockney, have spent their whole career interpreting images of themselves. I assume that the process could be endless.
Og
When Og and his siblings were young (RL young, not as Og, King of Bashan), High Street photographers used to take Polyfotos.
The young child would be sat in front of the camera and the parents would try to attract its attention, get the child to look left, right, up, down etc. The photographer would shoot 60 consecutive pictures that would eventually be printed as a large contact sheet.
The parents could choose any of the pictures to be enlarged and produced in a frame.
Most children under three would burst into tears from the repeated flashes before the 60 shots were completed. Often the pictures of the distressed child were the most poignant in later life.
Fond parents might have several Polyfotos taken at intervals through a child's development. I have three sets of my brother, two of my sister, and only one of me - the novelty wears off after the first child.
Polyfotos were often taken of girls throughout their lives. The photographer would have clothing and props so that the girl could appear as a fairy, as Wonderwoman, as a Victorian maiden etc. Polyfotos of brides were popular in the 1950s but since every shot had to be taken in the studio the preparation took a long time. The bride had to be presented as she would appear on her wedding day, dress, hair and cosmetics.
A local photographer still takes pictures of babies as 'fairies' with gauze wings, tiaras, wands etc in a ferny grotto. What the baby will make of the picture when a grungy teenager is anyone's guess. 'Hey Wayne! You looked like a fairy!' might elicit a physical retort.
Some artists, e.g. David Hockney, have spent their whole career interpreting images of themselves. I assume that the process could be endless.
Og
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