A Boundary of Decency
Monday, February 15, 2016
The 21st century is full of new words that baffle me, make
me laugh. There are expressions that I dislike such as the constant use by CNN
and MSNBC of “breaking news” in which micro-changes in the news are recorded
every few minutes if not seconds.
There is one expression (once used to stress one’s inability
to proceed because the situation is futile) that thankfully is now
infrequent. This was the one heard when
you went to the bank and faced a bank teller. Does anybody go to a brick and
mortar bank anymore? The expression was, “ We are very sorry but our computers
are down.”
In my area of photography particularly in those on-line
modeling sites there is this thing called “implied nude”. What it means is that
you might look at a photograph and know that the model in question is not
wearing anything. But since you cannot see anything (those bits!) it is an
implied nude.
Some of my friends are attempting to fight the standards
of facebook that prohibit female nipples in photographs but allow them in paintings
and sculptures. I have a local photographer friend who is constantly being put
into facebook’s version of a hockey penalty in the box. He gets bumped off. He
comes back to have facebook take him out again.
Some of the best photographs I have ever taken in my life
as a photographer I choose not to insert in my blog. I have my own ideas of
what my blog should be and those pictures I cannot or do not place here perhaps
someday might be seen at a gallery - or not. I find it all irrelevant. The
taking of the photograph is what is important.
Members of my family think I am a pornographer and my
Rosemary has “la paciencia del santo” and tolerates my penchant for the
undraped female figure snaps. She knows I behave.
As a fanciful experiment I will illustrate this blog with
what surely must be considered to be an implied nude. Does anything show?
