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Seen Reading (Oct 2015) by Michael Grace-Martin

15 Thursday Oct 2015

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Seen Reading (Oct 2015)

Seen Reading (Oct 2015)



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Submissions for The Male Nude blog post

23 Sunday Aug 2015

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I’m planning to do a blog post about the Male Nude in photography. Many of the male nude photos (applies to many female nudes as well) I see are unimaginative, lack drama or artistry, have no sense of humor, and/or are simply smutty or pornographic.

If you have some male nude photos you’ve taken that you think rise above these common pitfalls, I’d like to see them! You may submit up to 3 images. I will feature the ones I like in my upcoming blog post with appropriate photo credit and link to your website.

Please size the images you submit within a 640 pixel high and 760 pixel wide rectangle; the closer they are to 760 pixels wide and/or 640 pixels tall, the better. Please make sure your attached image/s is/are less than 1mb in file size.

Depending on how long it takes to receive enough images I like, I expect to put the blog post up by October 1st, 2015.

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New Photo Art Print at Saatchiart: Workout (August 2015)

11 Tuesday Aug 2015

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I’ve got a new photo print available at Saatchiart. It’s a black & white male nude titled: “Workout (August 2015)“.

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If Animals Went Grocery Shopping (NSFW)

20 Monday Jul 2015

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What if a farm animal went shopping at a grocery store?

Well, his diet might be a little less healthy, …and he probably wouldn’t be wearing clothes(!)

(click an image to see them against a dark background..)

Animal Groceries
Sugar and apples

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Beer, chips, and cookies


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Sex and Art in Nude Photography

04 Wednesday Dec 2013

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The way a nude is photographed can have quite an impact on the way the resulting photo is perceived.

Now, I don’t want to get involved in the (soft) porn versus fine art nude distinction in this discussion. I just want to try to demonstrate how two photos of the same model in the same photo session can give off quite different visual “connotations” depending on various factors.

Exhibit A

Exhibit A (click image to see against dark background)

In Exhibit A, we have a fairly suggestive and sex-imbued image. The pose is fairly sexual (a twisting, pelvic thrusting sort of motion) and the low lighting and smoke add a hazy aspect that sort of emulates one’s perception being distorted by drinking, drugs, or just being sexually aroused.

Exhibit B

Exhibit B (click image to see against dark background)

In Exhibit B, the model’s upper half is actually slightly more exposed than in Exhibit A, but her lower half is covered (with black tights). More than this though, the lighting is brighter (more prevalent) and the model more clearly presented (e.g., without intervening smoke). Add to this that her pose isn’t especially sexual (it just looks like she’s goofing around dancing) and that you can clearly see this is all happening on a constructed photo set…and the sexiness of the image and scene is quite reduced!

Here’s a question: which of these is more like “art”?

Both seem to have been shot without “art” being the primary goal per se; but just play along with me on this…

At first, I thought: “of course its the first one, right?” But then I thought: “well, it is if you consider ‘art’ in the classical sense in which it should be simple, aesthetically beautiful and/or painting-like”.

The problem is that “art” is a pretty loaded word and it’s culturally and time period sensitive.

In our current culture and time period, the second one may actually be considered more like “art” because it could be perceived as making a cultural statement. Also, the sexual nature of the first one (Exhibit A) steers it away from being art-like toward being more soft porn-like.

Personally, I’m not interested in taking images of the type in Exhibit A (though I took this one). I don’t know what to do with them. I know there’s a market for selling prints of “home-grown nudes” (i.e., there are collectors of these); but that’s not where I want to go with my photography.

The Exhibit B photo may not be exactly what I’m going for either, but it’s closer than Exhibit A–i.e., the Exhibit B image is closer to conveying some sort of message and not mostly being (however beautifully) about a sexy woman/model.

If I’m going to feature a nude in a photo without a message that is just supposed to be visually stunning, it’s going to be about the surrounding scene as much as the nude within the scene….which a lot of my past work with nudes has been.

Addendum:
Just for a contrast, here’s a more “classic art nude” photo I took that is a close-up, but tries to downplay sexuality via: a) conversion to a b&w image, and  b) explicit sexual parts hidden:

Swinging in the Woods (Oct 2011)

Swinging in the Woods (Oct 2011)



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Though I implemented a way for people to purchase prints of my Instagram photos a while back, someone finally purchased one of them! This one: instagram.com/p/CYptzBCsqok/ So interesting...:p

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