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You cannot have just beauty, apart from its embodiment. The beauty you are posting is not the body beautiful, it is an image. The map is not the territory. The body was necessary to making the image, and so was the work. The beauty in an image does not exist apart from the work and time that went into making it. It's the work you're stealing, which is to say, the money, often the income, of those who made the work. You are doing what the corporate world increasingly does, which is to deny artists the income that is due to them for their work.
If you post others' work without attribution then you're stealing the respect they are due for making something beautiful. If you post others' work under your own name, many people will assume it's your own work: you are, in effect, lying. Lies are not beautiful. You are using legal jargon, 'the pubic domain' precisely to deny the notion of the public domain, which only exists if there is also a private domain, a domain of ownership.
There is nothing radical or alternative or counter-cultural or creative or thoughtful or clever in what you are doing. You are being a lawyer. You are being banal.
Consider behaving with a little more respect for yourself and for the people whose images you are posting.
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This in response to one more person posting other people's work as if it were their own, and saying things like: 'Beauty "exists", like sunlight, in the PUBLIC DOMAIN' and: Beauty is something that can neither be bought, sold, bartered for, or traded. Neither can it be "stolen".
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If you post others' work without attribution then you're stealing the respect they are due for making something beautiful. If you post others' work under your own name, many people will assume it's your own work: you are, in effect, lying. Lies are not beautiful. You are using legal jargon, 'the pubic domain' precisely to deny the notion of the public domain, which only exists if there is also a private domain, a domain of ownership.
There is nothing radical or alternative or counter-cultural or creative or thoughtful or clever in what you are doing. You are being a lawyer. You are being banal.
Consider behaving with a little more respect for yourself and for the people whose images you are posting.
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This in response to one more person posting other people's work as if it were their own, and saying things like: 'Beauty "exists", like sunlight, in the PUBLIC DOMAIN' and: Beauty is something that can neither be bought, sold, bartered for, or traded. Neither can it be "stolen".
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Stealing is so bloody middle class!I know a lot of us keep trying to explain this, and that ...
1. Finding something in a public place doesn't give you the right to take it. If you find an image in a public place, that doesn't mean you can take it and use it how you like, any more than finding a car in a public street entitles you to drive it away. If you do take something that isn't yours, you might get away with it, or someone might come after you, and if they come after you, they might catch up with you. If they then beat the crap out of you, or you go to jail, you will still be a twat.
2. Treating property rights with contempt is not radical, or counter-cultural, or leftist / Marxist / intellectual. It is what people have always done if they could get away with it. It is what lawyers and professional politicians and bankers and Tories and Republicans do. It is the normal behaviour of bourgeois, middle-class, conformist people whenever they think they can get away with it.
3. It is mostly impossible for people who ar
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?
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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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