The Virgin Floozy In The Tub
Thursday, October 23, 2014
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| Joelle - 1989 |
One of the most
pleasing aspects in my ever diminishing profession as a photographer is to be
able to photograph someone more than once. It especially interesting when time
has transpired between the sittings.
Sometime in 1989 as I
was planning my show of women photographed in tubs I went through the people I
knew and asked them, “Would you pose for me in tub?” Without mentioning that I
wanted them unclothed the idea of them being in a tub of water precluded
clothing as such except for two of them who wore bikini bottoms. I found out
quickly that the easiest way to have a woman take off all her clothes was to
suggest a bathtub.
In my search for
subjects once I exhausted my list of friends I went to Emily Carr to have lunch
with my friend Derrick Carter, who at the time was teaching design at the
former institute but know university. I asked him if he knew of any
possibilities. He coincidentally pointed at young red-haired woman on the cafeteria
line-up and said, “She would do it.”
In retrospect, I know
realize that this whole procedure would now be deemed inappropriate by any
education institution. But things were definitely different in that past century.
I got up and without any
kind of introduction I went to the red haired woman and quickly told her of my
project. I finished it with, “If I were you I would not do this.” To which she
said, ‘I’ll do it.”
When my 21 year-old
daughter Alexandra insisted in being photographed in the tub and I found it a
bit uncomfortable I wavered but she was insistent. I decided that the safe
route was to get her to pose at the same time as the red-haired Joelle who
was also 21. They helped each other in the process and I was delighted with the
results. I was particularly impressed by her delightful smile and that sparkle in her eyes.
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| Joelle - 2003 |
Just a few days I
posted a blog about my daughter’s tub photograph here. In facebook Joelle
commented on the title of that blog in this way:
“This title
makes me laugh! That must have made me the ‘The Virgin Floozy’".
I talked to Joelle today and so that is
the explanation for this day’s blog title.
