Digital BW, The Print

Mark Tucker, 

Your humor gets laughs again.  

"Nekkidness" is one of those thangs that just seems to sell.  (wINK)

I think I know the very shot you mentioned in the back.  Is it the one that shows one image of the
"rough" woman (who looks like she is trying to "look" like a "working woman") with her dress buttoned and the next image shows one big nipble hanging out?  

I mean...if the first image is not interesting enough....isn't it just proof that the photographer is using a "hook" and a common one at that, in order to get the viewer (mag reader) to even pause at his ad when they add another image (almost a duplicate) with no change except to bare the breast? 

I suppose that works to get us to see the ad, and to comment on it (but heck I don't remember that photographer's name at all)....so it may work that way for him/her.  But for my taste....it just screams...."look....I know the first shot is boring...so I will add a shot with a bare breast...that makes it art...pleeeeese look at my art."

About the 16th floor?  I don't think many made it that high.  

Regards and laughs again, 

Steadman




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: marktuckerdotcom 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 9:30 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] BW Magazine: June issue


  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Steadman Uhlich" 
  <steadmanuhlich@k...> wrote:
  > Regarding the "Nude Policy" isn't it ironic that they can state 
  that.....and then have a prominent Betty Page pic (bent over) in 
  one of the articles.

  There is another example of the nude thang back in the 
  Exposure section; an ad for some guy, and it's an OK shot I 
  guess, of a woman, looking kinda sacksy in her eyes, kinda 
  come here. I looked and looked for the "fine art" aspect of it, then 
  just gave up.

  I also read the AIPAD article after posting that first post last
  night, 
  and this morning, I can honestly say that this magazine is just 
  lame. The article had that "Thurston Howell the Third/Gilligan's 
  Island" tone of voice to it, in a way that was almost laughable. It's 
  obviously directed at that small market of photo collectors, trying 
  to be all high-brow and all, which I guess on some level is fine, 
  but to me, it had this tone of some scheister gallery guy 
  escorting the 98-year-old wealthy patron around his gallery, 
  trying to drop as many four syllable words as he could, in order 
  to pry open the checkbook. (But maybe that's how it really is in 
  the real world? Eesh!)

  About your nipple/wilted-flower/mountain/desert-sand count, that 
  would be fun. It almost makes you wonder this chicken-egg 
  thing: do all these photographers just accidentally get inspired 
  and commit their life to this similar content, or, do they just 
  realize that this content is all that's ever gonna sell in a gallery, 
  so I'd better shoot that, or go back to that desk job on the 16th 
  floor?

  I threw the magazine away. And I'm with some of Bill Agee's 
  comments; the gallery world is insular and strange. And 
  honestly, I just don't want to drag around an 8x10 any more. And I 
  have no inner need to photograph my mother nekkid. 

  I don't know. It just left a strange taste in my mouth...

  MT


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