| Gallery of the Moment: A Gallery Gone Awry |
| Written by Tara Tainton | ||||||
| Saturday, 07 June 2008 11:30 | ||||||
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I love browsing photos of beautiful women. In fact, you could consider it an erotic pastime of mine. I'm always attracted most to scenes of outdoor settings... erotic splendor in the grass, a gorgeous nude body showcased against a naturally inspiring backdrop. Yet, as I eagerly gazed through Hegre Art's latest photo galleries released to its adoring fans, one particular photo gallery shot in the great outdoors struck me the wrong way. There was definitely something wrong. Something not quite right. An erotic shoot in the sand dunes should be wonderful to look at, right? Wrong. With this setting idea, photographer Petter Hegre didn't do his nude model justice. And Yanna's a very beautiful girl, as we can see in her studio photo to the right of her latest erotic gallery on display. Yet, she doesn't look so attractive, appealing, or even happy rolling around in the dunes in this particular gallery. A sand-speckled ass... that's sexy. Milky bare skin warming under the rays of natural sunlight... that's beautiful. A woman nude in an outdoor setting... stunning. Except this time. After staring at all the photos in the collection, I think I finally have it figured out. I think this particular setting an photographic ideas goes wrong as the monochrome backdrop of dark sand blends too well with Yanna's own tan body. There's no contrast, no real showcasing of the beautiful nude body itself. Worse, as Yanna rolls intentionally seductively in the sand, she gets more and more covered... until she looks like a creature of the sand herself. Some kind of mud monster. And I begin to see the very essence of unattractive and non-erotic imagery that permeates the entire gallery. It's in a particular few photos.. the photos in which the lovely model actually seems to be struggling in the sand. She's not having fun, and we're not turned on. We're sympathizing instead.
3.23 Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved." |
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