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I've been enjoying the wonderful image that Pascal Wiedemann (~PW-Fotografie ... pw-fotografie.deviantart.com/) has posted of part of the body of Ms.Nightingale.
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I love the image itself, and I love that Pascal and Ms.Nightingale have been generous and brave in sharing it with us.
Perhaps most of all I'm delighted that, so far at least, looking at the BW and the colour version of the image, the comments from dA members have been thoroughly and emphatically positive.
I was going to add my own comment on the BW version, but it's there on the page if you care to look.
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I love the image itself, and I love that Pascal and Ms.Nightingale have been generous and brave in sharing it with us.
Perhaps most of all I'm delighted that, so far at least, looking at the BW and the colour version of the image, the comments from dA members have been thoroughly and emphatically positive.
I was going to add my own comment on the BW version, but it's there on the page if you care to look.
Gaze
I sometimes struggle to explain why it is that photographing women helps me with my main work, which is writing about violence. But it does, and it has a lot to do with 'gaze' and male gaze in the sense that Laura Mulvey talks about it.
I am often working on ancient texts, including biblical texts, and I recently came across this in the story of Samuel's birth (Samuel the Israelite leader who anoints first Saul and then David to be king). Samuel inherits the leadership role in Israel from Eli, whose sons are identified as unfit to succeed their father not least because they abuse the women who come to make offerings at the place of worship w
A book of portraits?
and ..
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A book of portraits? The simple ones, of women against a plain background. What do you think?
I'll do something with a print on demand place, like Blurb or Saal, to start with. If you'd be interested, you can PM me here. In buying it, or if you're a model, in shooting for it. I'm open to ideas for titles, too. In my head the book has always been The Sovereignty of the Self .. see my previous journal for the arty bullshit. But that is too arty-bullshitty a title. Women Standing Against A Wall is a bit long and plain. Against the Wall and Shot .. you can see my problem. Must. Learn. To. Be. Concise.
I've updated my personal
I may be gone some time ...
Well, not that bad, I hope.
Surgery tomorrow, long recovery time, won't be posting anything for a while.
The sovereignty of the self
Arty bullshit about why I shoot nudes the way I do. It's about letting the self (the model's self) be sovereign.
The modern understanding of sovereignty, following Carl Schmitt, is 'he who is sovereign who can create the state of exception'. It's not the power to make law that identifies the sovereign, but the power to unmake it, or to set it aside. Giorgio Agamben calls that the creation of a state of non-Law (he shows it as the word Law with a cross through it). It's the basis of emergency legislation such as that which creates a Guantanamo, where the law against torture, or detention without charge, is suspended; Agamben shows the connect
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Thanks a lot. I am really honored. And i´m glad that you like it.