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Vacillica ist 18 Jahre alt und Schülerin aus Bamberg. Sie beschäftigt sich vor allem mit der Selbstportrait-Fotografie, die sie mit ihrem Interesse für Philosophie und analytische Psychologie verbindet. Ihre fotografischen Werke sind auf tumblr und auf deviantArt zu sehen.
Eine Kritik an die „patriarchale“ Erotik in der Kunst und der Wunsch, die Sexualität in der Kunst aus der Frauenperspektive zu betrachten.
Ich wette, Du hast eine Menge solcher Fotos gesehen. Wenn nicht, bitte ich dich, zum Beispiel auf deviantArt zu gehen, links in der Navigation über die Kategorie „Photography“ und „People & Portraits“ die Unterkategorie „Artistic Nude“ auszuwählen und Dir die besten Aufnahmen anzuschauen. Direkt erscheint auf dem Monitor eine Reihe von Fotos von schönen Frauen.
Sie sind perfekt: Ihr Körper ist gepflegt und proportional, erfüllt von Sinnlichkeit, umgeben von empfindlichem Licht und tiefen Schatten. Manchmal sieht man nur bestimmte Teile des weiblichen Körpers: Rundliche Brust, volle und leicht geöffnete Lippen, apfelförmiger Popo. So etwas findet man nicht nur auf Pornoseiten, die das Ziel verfolgen, den meist männlichen Zuschauer sexuell zu erregen. Die ganze Erotik scheint von der weiblichen, sexuellen Schönheit geprägt zu sein.
Ist Dir aufgefallen, dass ich oben bloß vom dargestellten Körper gesprochen habe? Nicht unbewusst. Und nicht zu Unrecht. Man sieht tatsächlich nur einen Leib. Einen Leib, den, ich zweifle nicht, jeder Mann vor sich zu sehen wünscht nach einem anstrengenden Arbeitstag. Egal, ob der Leib wie in zahlreichen Pornos misshandelt oder mit Würde dargestellt wird – die Tatsache bleibt dieselbe: Es ist nur ein Leib. Und somit ein Gegenstand, ein Objekt.
Wenn diesem Objekt ein Ausdruck, eine „Seele“ gegeben wird, so stammt sie, die Seele, vom Fotografen, der vor dem Shooting ein Konzept im Kopf hat und dieses durch das Model realisiert. Die Frau in der Erotikwelt ist ein sexueller Traum des Mannes und nicht ihr eigener. Wie der Kunstkritiker John Berger in seinem Buch schreibt: “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at”.
Dies lässt sich besonders gut an folgendem Bespiel veranschaulichen: 2007 dreht die schwedische Pornodarstellerin Mia Engberg ein dreiminütiges Video, in dem man Frauen verschiedenen Alters und Aussehens beim Masturbieren zusehen kann. Was das Video von typischen pornografischen Inhalten unterscheidet, ist die Tatsache, dass die Frauen in diesem kurzen Film gar keine Schauspielerinnen sind und folglich offen und natürlich, also nicht gespielt, mit ihrem Orgasmus umgehen.
Zu meiner eigenen Verwunderung stieß das Video auf eine unerwartete Reaktion, besonders von der Männerseite: Man fand die Gesichter der Frauen während des Orgasmus entstellt und hässlich, im totalen Widerspruch stehend zur gewohnten, eigentlich künstlichen Darstellung von beinahe „göttlichen“ Wesen mit der dementsprechenden Mimik.
Es ist keine moderne Erscheinung in unserer Gesellschaft; das hat es immer gegeben in der patriarchisch ausgerichteten Kultur: Dass die Kunst und besonders ihre erotische, sexuelle Seite vom männlichen Geist dominiert wird. Versteh mich bitte nicht falsch, ich würde nie den Männern die Freiheit rauben, ihre eigenen Fantasien und Wünsche künstlerisch umzusetzen.
Doch ich bin zutiefst davon überzeugt, dass es an der Zeit ist, endlich auch einmal die Frau die berühmte Frage von Freud beantworten zu lassen: „Was will eine Frau?“. Wovon sie nachts, bevor sie einschläft, träumt. Wie sie sich selbst in ihrer Sexualität betrachtet und was für einen Partner sie sich an ihrer Seite wünscht.
Bereits in den 70er Jahren mit dem Aufschwung der feministischen Art fängt man allmählich an, dieser Seite der Kunst mehr Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken. Berühmte Fotografinnen wie Ellen von Unwerth und Bettina Rheims leisten auch einen immensen Beitrag zur Erotik aus weiblicher Perspektive.
Obwohl ihre Werke bedeutsam sind, stellen sie trotzdem eine Ausnahme in der Welt der „Nacktfotos“ dar. Deshalb verfolge ich, größtenteils ein Selbstportrait-Fotograf, mit meiner Fotografie unter anderem das Ziel, die weibliche Sexualität zu entfalten und letzten Endes in meinen Aufnahmen ein Subjekt und nicht nur ein Objekt zu sein.
Deshalb bin ich es gewohnt, meine Kunst als eine Art eigene Psychoanalyse zu betrachten. Das ist auch der Grund, warum ich mich im Regelfall für Selbstportraits entscheide: Denn wer kennt mein inneres Ich mit all seinen Komplikationen, Geheimnissen und Träumen besser als ich selbst?
Somit dient mir die Fotografie als ein Tagebuch. Darin schreibe ich über die Dinge, die ich in der Realität noch nicht gewagt habe, die mich aber auf eine obskure Art und Weise anziehen. Die Aufnahmen stellen mich nicht bloß – oft sind die fotografischen Ergebnisse genauso rätselhaft und doppelsinnig wie ich sie in meiner Psyche empfinde. Die Kunst ist zunächst ein Versuch, die Inhalte zu veranschaulichen. Eine Erklärung oder eine Lösung ist bereits vorhanden – sie verbirgt sich alleine in Fotos.
Ich pflege zu wiederholen, dass meine Kamera nicht ein Mann ist, vor dem ich mich ausziehe, mit dem ich flirte, den ich verführe. Meine Kamera ist ein Spiegel. Was ich damit meine, wird jeder Shopaholic verstehen: Nachdem man in Dutzenden Läden einen Haufen Kleidung gekauft hat und nach Hause zurückgekehrt ist, will man als Erstes die Neuanschaffungen in aller Ruhe ausprobieren, in eine Rolle schlüpfen und diese genießen. Sei es, dass man sich mit einem teuren Abendkleid in die Salonlöwin verwandelt oder in einer bunten Sommertunika die romantische und leichtsinnige Mademoiselle spielt.
Auf diese Weise entnimmt man der Psyche eine von vielen kleinen Persönlichkeiten und setzte sie wie eine Maske auf das Gesicht: Man lebt sein Alter Ego aus. Genauso funktioniert es mit der Sexualität, die für mich eine eigene Plattform darstellt, auf der ich verschiedene Seiten meiner inneren Welt zum Ausdruck bringen kann.
Und der Spiegel hilft mir dabei, die Experimente von der Seite zu beobachten und die erzielten Ergebnisse leichter zu analysieren. Denn nicht selten lasse ich während des Shootings meiner Fantasie und Intuition freien Lauf, ohne zu ahnen, was dabei herauskommt.
KWERFELDEIN | Fotografie Magazin
DxO Labs has added the Canon S100 and Panasonics’ GF3, G2 and G1 to the list of cameras supported by its DxO Optics Pro software. The cameras are added to both the Standard and Elite versions of the Optics Pro v7.2, that the company says are more stable than before. Version 7.2 also gains the ability to import Optics Pro v6 databases containing the image processing settings for existing images.
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Project requested by: user/MrSilentPrince23 user/HappySlovenianGirl The famed second wife of Henry VIII and mother to Elizabeth I began her rise to the throne as lady-in-waiting to her predecessor, Queen Catherine of Aragon: Henry VIII’s first wife. Catherine’s inability to provide Henry with a male heir began to get on Henry VIII’s nerves, and his eye started to wander. Anne was a well-bred, cordial, and yet vivacious and exotic character whose dark eyes seemed to possess a power all their own. Anne’s intelligence and sophistication made those eyes all he more powerful, and she knew very much how to use them. King Henry VIII was soon hooked on the dark, alluring, fashionable fireball of Anne, who was also a skilled musician, dancer, and singer. She was not a “contemporary” beauty, which at that time was white skin, fair hair and blue eyes, but there was something formidably desirable in her long oval face, high cheekbones, and dark hair and eyes that often found Anne being followed by a number of eager suitors. Henry VIII decided that his marriage to Catherine was worthy of annulment, since her duties of providing him a son were not fulfilled, so as Anne Boleyn was gradually introduced into the public eye, Catherine was overthrown. The public was not at all thrilled about the divorce, as they felt that Anne was a “homewrecker” whose meddlesome ways deranged the King’s mind into divorcing the Queen THEY loved. The description of Anne Boleyn’s appearance would forever be …
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Pentax has announced the Optio VS20, possibly the first compact camera with a second shutter button and zoom lever for portrait-orientation shooting. Beyond that it’s a pretty well-specified 20x compact superzoom, featuring a 28-560mm equivalent zoom lens with sensor-shift image stabilization for its 16MP CCD. It’s not the smallest 20x zoom camera we’ve seen but it manages to include a anti-glare-coated 460k dot 3.0″ LCD and costs $ 249/£199, so it’s not uncompetitive.
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I am not vegetarian.
I occasionally eat meat, although it has never been one of my favorite meals and, for personal health reasons I try to limit as much as possible its consumption.
Anyway, this book is not about my alimentary habits but rather about my personal, visual meditation on the condition of living beings, people and animals, a meditation about life and death.
I shot these photos in a rather primitive slaughterhouse in the south of the Dominican Republic, where, perhaps due to the lack of strong social movements against cruelty to animals, a photographer is still being allowed to enter such place and freely document it.
Despite a lack of all those humanitarian implications that such a place would provoke in “the modern world”, here, the only concern in letting me photograph the slaughterhouse was the obvious lack of hygiene, which could jeopardize business even in the Dominican Republic, should these photos be published locally.
My reassurance that it was not my intention to do so, quickly gave me access all areas to photograph “business as usual” in the slaughterhouse.
All along, while shooting, and later, while editing these photos, a question was in my mind: who is suffering more and longer over here? The animals or the people? The killers or their victims?
Of course these cows and these pigs are being killed in a very violent and inhuman way, a knife shoved into their heart to then let them bleed till they die, but what about the killers? In this pre-industrial world they don’t even wear the rubber boots, the face mask, the gloves and the white apron their American colleagues are issued (as per FDA rules) in order to preserve a certain degree of hygiene and as a pretence for a more professional and perhaps detached approach to their license to kill.
No, here the killers walk barefoot in the blood of their victims, they plunge their bodies inside the carcasses to extract their innards, they struggle, man versus pig, sweating, screaming as loud as the pig, while searching for the deadly spot, right above the heart, to give a painful, yet almost instant death.
And while the animal dies, they don’t. They continue to live in this gory theater of guts and blood and screams, killing animals day after day. In a paradoxical way, the life sentence to the executioner can be perceived as crueler than the death sentence of the victim.
And then you think: how can they do it?
They kill to earn a living.
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Giovanni Savino is a photographer based in New York City and in the Dominican Republic, specialized in editorial, documentary and portrait photography. See more:
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University of Maryland Arts and Humanities Dean James Harris Resigning After 14 Years
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Caption: Arts and Humanities Dean James Harris will resign his post after 14 years on June 30, 2011.
Legacy of Innovative Approaches and Initiatives
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – James F. Harris, dean of the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, will resign his post on June 30, 2011, marking 14 years on the job.
The dean says he is not retiring and will remain on the history faculty. He made the announcement at the annual faculty staff convocation.
"It’s time," Harris explains. "In the past decade we have seen a tremendous upsurge in the quality of the student body, our faculty, and our offerings, significantly raising the College’s profile. It has been a wonderful period of growth, and I’ve had the pleasure of leading a phenomenal group of faculty, staff and students."
Harris came to the University of Maryland in 1967. He became history chair in 1993 and dean of the college in 1997. As dean, he has worked to raise the visibility and impact of the college by implementing a series of innovative programs responding to social and academic challenges.
"He has been an outstanding and dedicated member of our community, leaving the College in a much stronger position than the one he inherited," says Nariman Farvardin, acting president and senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.
"Jim has put Arts and Humanities on a trajectory for achieving even more significant accomplishments in the years to come," Farvardin adds."I want to thank him for his thoughtful and visionary leadership of the College of Arts and Humanities and for being such a wonderful member of the leadership team. We are also happy that he will remain at Maryland as a distinguished faculty member."
SIGNATURE INITIATIVES
LANGUAGE: Among the signature initiatives launched under Harris’ leadership are a major reorganization and expansion of language education and research. This has led the university to national leadership in the field.
Harris folded the various language departments into the present School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. This interdisciplinary approach proved to be a creative boon.
In the post-9/11 years, the College has taken a lead in developing innovative approaches to foreign language acquisition, including:
*Two of the 23 National "Flagship" programs in the country – in Persian and Arabic – offering cutting-edge, advanced foreign language instruction;
* UM Center for Advanced Study of Language and the National Foreign Language Center, which conduct major research and development for the nation;
* Added majors in Persian and Arabic;
* National Science Foundation IGERT, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, a program aimed at creating new interdisciplinary approaches to language that draws on strengths across the university.
ARTS: Dean Harris oversaw the creation and growth of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center into a national model for university-based academic and performance integration.
A major regional performance venue, the Center has become a vibrant community of artists, students and audiences, where great work happens both on- and off-stage. The Center presents approximately 1,000 events each year spanning all performing arts disciplines.
Also, Dean Harris applied an interdisciplinary approach to the arts to create the School of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Along with the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the programs have become what Harris describes as major contributors to the creation of new works of art.
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, established in 2001, provides an intellectual home for artists, museum professionals, art administrators and scholars, who are committed to collecting, documenting and presenting African American art.
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES: Under Dean Harris’ leadership, the University of Maryland has developed an integrative approach to Middle East studies. The program has expanded with the creation of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies and the Roshan Center for Persian Studies – the first autonomous, interdisciplinary U.S. center in the field.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES: Another area of innovative, interdisciplinary growth is the field of digital humanities, media and cultures. The College, in collaboration with the Libraries and the Office of Information Technology created the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. In the past decade, it has become a leading intellectual hub and national center.
Last year, the school used a "cluster search" approach to hire top faculty specialists in the field, where various departments competed against each other to fill three slots. The final appointments were in the fields of Art, American Studies and Women’s Studies. "The addition of talent to an already strong field has been extraordinary," Harris says. "If we always appoint the best, we will soon be the best."
Harris credits the accomplishments to Arts and Humanities’ administrative council, faculty and staff, "who have painstakingly labored to help advance the work of the college."
In addition to his leadership in the College, Dean Harris has had a significant university-wide impact, including his contributions to the institution’s strategic planning effort and coordination of the 150th anniversary celebration marked in 2006.
BY-THE-NUMBERS
Among the advances during Harris’ administration:
* The College’s enrollment increased from about 2,300 majors to over 4,000;
* Sponsored research revenue rose from approximately 0,000 to million per year; and
* The College exceeded its million Great Expectations capital campaign fundraising goal, then increased it to million and is on track to exceed this new amount by the campaign’s conclusion. This represents a 300 percent increase over funds raised by the College during the last campaign.
Farvardin will appoint a committee in the near future to begin a national search to fill Harris’ position.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Neil Tickner
Senior Media Relations Associate
University of Maryland
301-405-4622
ntickner@umd.edu
Nicky Everette
Communications Director
College of Arts and Humanities
301-405-6714
meve@umd.edu
A piece by Bruce Conner and Double Cross by Edward and Nancy Kienholz, 1988
Image by Steve Rhodes
museum.stanford.edu
His obituary
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/08/BAKA…
more at
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www.mcnblogs.com/mcindie/archives/2008/07/bruce_conner.html
A 1972 oral history
www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/conn…
Image by Steve Rhodes
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We live at a time when cameras are omnipresent as much as cell phones. But despite mass enthusiasm, photography still exists as a refined art. What makes the true art different from mass photo production? We’ll talk about this with someone who knows all about the art of photography.
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Who will watch the watchers? In a world of ubiquitous, hand-held digital cameras, that’s not an abstract philosophical question. Police everywhere are cracking down on citizens using cameras to capture breaking news and law enforcement in action. In 2009, police arrested blogger and freelance photographer Antonio Musumeci on the steps of a New York federal courthouse. His alleged crime? Unauthorized photography on federal property. Police cuffed and arrested Musumeci, ultimately issuing him a citation. With the help of the New York Civil Liberties Union, he forced a settlement in which the federal government agreed to issue a memo acknowledging that it is totally legal to film or photograph on federal property. Although the legal right to film on federal property now seems to be firmly established, many other questions about public photography still remain and place journalists and citizens in harm’s way. Can you record a police encounter? Can you film on city or state property? What are a photographer’s rights in so-called public spaces? These questions will remain unanswered until a case reaches the Supreme Court, says UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh, founder of the popular law blog The Volokh Conspiracy. Until then, it’s up to people to know their rights and test the limits of free speech, even at the risk of harassment and arrest. Who will watch the watchers? All of us, it turns out, but only if we’re willing to fight for our rights. Produced by Hawk Jensen and Zach …
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