About nudity, age, expression, and, in addition, what can a body in the picture actually
I’m not looking for a beautiful body. The sounds for a photographer, the photographed people and often on clothes dispensed with, initially, perhaps contradictory. Finally, beauty for centuries been part of the big promises of the art. She has been painted, sculpted, illuminated, retouched and again and again normalized. Every time agreed fairly reliably to the fact, as a body have to look way, and as reliable forget that the next era would amend this agreement. I have other interests. I’m looking for a man that can tell you something with his body. A body can be trained to comply with all the current ideas of attractiveness, to be young, symmetrical and flawless and completely silent. Everything is just right, just the picture says nothing. Another body bears the traces, weight, voltage, perhaps, scars, wrinkles, or fatigue. A shoulder is changing, a Hand pulls back, the focus shifts barely visible – and all of a sudden presence. Exactly interested in me.
A model, for me, is, therefore, not a body, you only need to put right. If I want to show an inner state Pride, resistance, exhaustion, vulnerability, ambivalence, retreat or determination – is sufficient not a pretty Pose. The man in front of my camera must understand what it is about, and the idea of physically can translate. Not as large pantomime characters, the grief reliable with his head bowed and Proud with pre-stretched chest is delivered. Me, the smaller shifts: the voltage of a Hand, a shoulder, the opening or protects are interested in the question of whether a body emits weight or contrast, whether an attitude space or avoids. Sometimes a model is changed, only a few inches – and suddenly, the condition is there. The advance continues, the body, consciousness, intelligence, and imagination. And sometimes experience.
Some of the women I work with, particularly love, are over forty, a much over fifty. I mention this because age would not be any guarantee for depth. There is an expression of strong young people, and a completely inexpressive older; years of life give anyone automatically artistic significance. But life experience can extend the physical vocabulary. Who knows his body for decades, often knows its ways better. Anyone who has experienced, such as self-awareness changes, such as vulnerability looks like, how to protect himself, straightens up, pulls back or resist, can embody such conditions different than someone who is trying to do is, their outward Form, to make. Particularly valuable models that have acting experience or a keen sense of the body have, for me, that’s why. A model must not only understand what Pose I’m looking for. It is necessary to understand why this Pose does not exist.
Therefore, beauty is not a selection criterion. Of course I’m interested in a person photographically; anything else would be an odd statement for someone who makes images. But ‘a photographer is not interesting’ the same as ‘beautiful’. Me can be interested in a back, a shoulder line, hands, a certain posture or an unusual physicality. Signs of age, asymmetries, or characteristics can just create the tension that is in need of an image. A flawless body is not automatically an interesting subject, aged just as little. It is not important how close to a body of a present ideas of attractiveness, but what is happening in the picture with him. Our perception sorts of body is fond of very quickly in young or old, slim or strong, attractive or unattractive, desirable or not desirable. For art this classification is surprisingly useless. It says almost nothing about whether a person can Express something with his body.
Nudity is for me first of reduction. Clothing tells a lot and can therefore be extremely useful. A suit told something different than a night-shirt, Jeans, something other than Velvet, a white shirt something other than bare skin. Clothing arranges a people culturally and socially, there are references to time, role, taste, Status, and sometimes even on purpose. Sometimes I need exactly this level. Often I don’t want you to just. Then I will remove you. Nudity makes a person not automatically true; no one with his pants at the same time its social roles, Fears and contradictions. But she takes the picture, a layer of write-up. Left posture, movement, tension, light, shadow, and shape. Nudity in my paintings, so no promises on the erotic. She is a reduction on those means, I want to work with.
Interestingly, it is there, where the naked body is considered. When a woman appears naked in an image, see some of the viewer, first of all, not attitude, light, shadow, composition or an expression. You can see a naked woman. And from this perception, an amazingly short thoughts arises occasionally result: naked means erotic, erotic means sexually, sexually, is suspiciously close to pornographic. Some abbreviations later, a moral issue is from an image. Here, nudity is just that: nudity. An unclothed body can be erotic, of course. He can, however, exhausted and vulnerable, resistant, proud, monumental, sculptural or completely aloof act. The erotic is a possible reading, it is not the automatic importance of visible skin.
Also, the viewer involved at the image. He brings experience, expectations, wishes, Fears, and cultural ideas. The art and power of your consideration at all interesting. Only one should distinguish between what shows a picture, and what you recognize yourself in it. Who takes erotic true, perceived eroticism. The first is a statement about his perception. The detailed study of Pose, look, image-building, action, and the context shows whether the erotic is actually the center of the image, or whether it is only one possible response. A naked body has no built-in instructions for use.
My photographic language has developed in the female body. This is not a ranking of the male body is still an art-theoretical decision-in-principle. A male body demands for me a different visual language. Posture, body tension, line, and weight change, the Gestures can be read differently, certain poses get a different meaning. Also, the lighting works for me regardless. What are the parts of the body, I highlight how I form a volume, which set of lines is I put in the shadow disappear, and what do I do with the body, the people I photograph. In the female body, I can judge is usually very fast, what attitude, what is light and what is the line in my picture idea. In the male body, this intuitive missing me aesthetic access. I don’t see the options in the same way, and don’t feel this image language.
For me, this is not a weakness, and urgently need to be resolved, but an artistic limitation. Artistic work is the fact that, you know, for what motives his own language has developed and for which you do not. A landscape photographer need to photograph sometime architecture, so that his work is complete, and a portraitist owes the world no series on industrial plants. Also, I don’t need to photograph every human body, just because it would, in principle fotografierbar. I work with the Aesthetics, I can safely distinguish between a line of work, when a posture is right, and when the Form of matter. For me that is the female body.
The decisive factor is not the gender, but the presence of the people in the picture remains for me anyway. The body is only the surface that is to be considered, or he has the attitude, resistance, voltage, and his own role? That’s where it gets interesting. When I speak of Pride, I would like to no standard Pose. When it comes to vulnerability, I need not put melancholic expression, and resistance caused by the fact that someone looks particularly determined. Internal States are more complicated. A good model understands that an attitude does not look attractive, but something to wear. Sometimes a minimal change is sufficient, and, suddenly, I see Now that it is there. This is the moment, I’m looking for. Not: Now she looks particularly beautiful. But: Now the body is told.
Some of my favorite models are no longer twenty, or thirty, therefore, is not a political program. Young body can be great for older as well, and both can be photographically completely uninteresting. But our culture, age, address, often as a body with increasing age would gradually lose his permission to be visible. Especially, the female body seems to be according to certain ideas to the point where ‘desirable’ to move on’, please adequately cover’. This limit does not interest me. An older body has not less possibilities of expression. And sometimes, the person has more experience in working with posture, tension, and presence. Not because every wrinkle tells automatically a story. Wrinkles, first wrinkles, for once. But a man who has lived for decades in his body and has learned him to consciously use, it can Express so many things that interest me photographically.
The erotic is not a criterion for exclusion. A body can be sensual, an attitude erotic effect, light can create beauty and a picture request to trigger. The everything is allowed. Eroticism is no contamination of the art. For me, the interesting border is not between eroticism and art, but where the illustrated man loses his presence, and only to the Mediterranean for a effect. Also, this border does not use a ruler to draw. You have to deal with the individual image, with his attitude, his look, his performance and the relationship between the photographer, the model and the viewer. This is laborious as a rapid label, but most of the time even more productive.
Perhaps the most interesting question in front of a naked body in the picture is not therefore: ‘is this Allowed?’ And not first: ‘Is this sexy?’ But: ‘What I see here – and why I see it that way?’ An image can tell something about the illustrated man, something about the photographer and occasionally as much about the viewer. It is just the peculiar power of the human body is art. He is totally familiar and at the same time with an amazing stock of society’s expectations, Fears, desires and Forbidden loaded.
I search, therefore, not beautiful body. I’m not looking for a young body, no perfect and also not equal to is as reliable as possible a currently valid idea of what you show to watch or beautiful can be found. I’m looking for the people that can tell you something with his body.