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10/08/09
There was also an image from his nude series of the model's vagina, which has stayed with me ever since. My experience up to this point with works of art of women and vaginas done by men made me embarrassed and uncomfortable in their sex and taboo. I could not look at them without being uncomfortable and often felt they didn't have much more purpose than to shock.
Although Penn's image was taken from the same familiar male perspective: directly from between her legs, Penn's image with it's emphasis on light and shadows made it somehow not sexual to me but a thing of beauty to be looked at with awe and wonder and no shame. I could have contemplated it for hours.
It was so lovely and abstract that it didn't hit you immediately what you were looking at it, but once you recognized it, you couldn't help but look closer.
His work was art.
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A lovely appreciation of Penn, Jenna. Thanks.
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And yes, I smoke.
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(I like to pretend I have a smoking room. Where cognac is served.)
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10/07/09
of his photos at the Getty. It is really
wonderful.
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Okay, a little off topic, but I am NOT feeling this new gallery layout. I have to scroll down to see all the thumbs if I want to jump out of order. There's not way to run them in that new right-sidebar area so we can see both large image and thumbs above the digital-fold?
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*sigh*
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And we do this on the same day at nearly the same time. It makes my head spin.
I know we must defend an overweight woman who has been nominated to be our health czar in an era where obesity is nearly a crime and is one of the most severe health issues that we face as a nation. Naturally she's an exception to the fat is bad rule because she is brilliant and successful.
But what about overweight women who are not brilliant and successful? They are "the little houses"" in the flyover states I guess.
But then we also must oooooh and aaaaaah about the women that are of a very specific and narrow body type and continue to refer to them as "models" of what the rest of us should be. Goddess help us if we point out that these women are probably not healthy either although the occasional "behind the scenes" article supports and encourages this belief.
And the message is always that we are not good enough.
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