Week 7 EOC: Adult Content

Pornography and Adult content have been a part of photography from its earliest days, just as it is in today’s society. In the film Gentlemen’s Relish a Artist and Painter is tricked into making this type of photographs from his young assistant. The Assistant convinces the Artist and Photographer to recreate famous paintings, which contain nudity and then the assistant crops the photographs down to show the more erotic poses of the recreated painting that he then turns around and sells. The film is based in the early 1900’s when photography was starting to become its own Art form. I think the movie does show the way pornography came about in photography and is still true to this day in photography. The film also talks about the morals involved when people take these type of photographs, and as a photographer I think that it is very important to know where to draw the line when it comes to your own morals as to what kind of assignments you will be willing to take on. In the marketplace today sex sells and many companies are looking for this type of photograph to promote their product. How you go about taking these types of photographs however is the challenge most photographers will face. I think that as a photographer you can take sexy or sensual styles of photographs without having to fall victim to making pornography.  I think that there is a place for all types and style of Art, however some of those types and style of Art are not for me personally as a photographer.