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09/05/2006 06:46:05 PM · #1 |
| Am I the only person who finds processing that makes young children look like zombie/heroin addicts not very appealing? Been seeing more and more such photos around and now voting on this free study challenge there are a number of them as well. If there is some artistic message I'm missing it. Doesn't seem to me to be high art giving a kid a couple of black eyes and ghoulish skin. Enlighten me? Why kids? Why not one of these fine looking naked women adorning the challenge? Why not some of the old people in there? Bugs? Dogs? Why just kids? |
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09/05/2006 07:10:02 PM · #2 |
| It's part of an ongoing campaign by the Chinese government to make children less appealing so people will stop having them, crippling the future manufacturing capabilities of foreign nations. |
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09/05/2006 07:11:01 PM · #3 |
| Heroin chic is the province of the young. |
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09/06/2006 07:07:07 AM · #4 |
No you are not alone -- I don't understand it at all.
"fine looking naked women adorning the challenge?"
-- Hmm, I have been neglecting my duty to vote. :)
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09/06/2006 10:07:11 AM · #5 |
It's sort of characteristic of modern, youthful angst & rebellion. "goth" and "Grunge" have a subcultural life entirely apart from photography and photoshop.
R.
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09/06/2006 10:22:21 AM · #6 |
That said...I'm getting real tired of where fashion is going. I just looked at a fashion 'zine the other day with my wife. We were commenting on how like 20% of the photos tried to make the girls look like boys.
No breasts...
I mean....come on...we're not talking porn but do women really need to be forced fed an image so slender that it necessitates that not even breasts develop?
I don't get it. Women are inherently curvy and shapeful. They should NOT be forced to despise that which is natural to them. (But I guess that's modernism for you. Women should be waify breastless things more closely resembling pre-adoloscent boys. And men must no longer have hair on their face or chest.
Go figure....
Maybe we need a "Masculinity" and a "Feminimity" challenge. |
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09/06/2006 02:33:18 PM · #7 |
Just a few points to consider:
Images such as the ones you are talking about are generally *designed* to draw a reaction. Negative or positive, they are intended to make people stop and take notice. It's a classic take on humanity.. make a subject look completely different than how they are classically presented to draw an audience.
We are inundated with the cute, puritan, innocent, classical look every day. I do shots like that all the time.. however, sometimes it's an interesting study to go 180 degrees and show a side that nobody expects to see, or.. even.. cares to see.
Children aren't always the angelic little things they are portrayed as in the photos we take of them. We love to capture the good moments.. the cute moments.. but rarely do we grab the bad moments. Sometimes it's nice to see that aspect.
Now.. I realize that what you are talking about isn't exactly grabbing the *bad* moments of childhood.. and is, indeed, a concious effort to make something we feel *should* be one way into something *COMPLETELY* the opposite.. a cute, innocent child thus becomes, as you say, representative of someone sickly, diseased, or addicted to some kind of substance.. but that just goes with what I am talking about. The photographer/Artist has done their job. They've made you take notice. They've got you talking. Even if you don't agree with it or enjoy it.. you've noticed it.
Artistically, sometimes, that's all we ask for.
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