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Greenfield-Sanders, on the other hand, fills the space between his copycat (color) photos with a lot of pontificating and tangentially relevant "essays" by commentators such as Gore Vidal, Nancy Friday and Karen Finley.listen, i know that there's practically nothing that you can do these days that hasn't been done before, and that's fine. i'd rather see Greenfield-Sanders' imitation of Friedler's work than some utterly talentless twat who wired up some lights in a room to turn on and off, but a little credit where credit is due. i mean, how long did Greenfield-Sanders have to dig to come up with the Goya reference? and how stupid does he think we are? that's a rhetorical question, because while most of us may not be stupid, we do have very short memories, and if you say something with enough conviction and repetition (like "the king of pop," or "weapons of mass destruction," for example) people will eventually believe it. the point being, who gives a shit what porn "stars" look like naked? as if that is a great mystery. but your bus driver or the kid behind the counter at the coffee shop? to me, that's far more interesting. and, by the way, Friedler had a porn actress in one of his books, so he had already gone there too. if you're thinking of dropping $35 on "XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits," go to source and pick up the Greg Friedler books instead.    on Friday, April 8th 2005 at 10:52am, carol es said: you make a good point my dearest. you write so well. i don't understand why someone isn't paying you 5 bucks a word. you deserve at least that. on Friday, April 8th 2005 at 11:01am, mjp said: by the way, i will also entertain offers of $5 a word to not write about someone. you can send a check any time bryan. on Monday, April 11th 2005 at 3:31am, the one that *seems* to have some answers. said: i have none. how fucking brilliant is that? on Friday, April 15th 2005 at 11:12am, Kim said: I have never seen such a blatant rip-off of someone else's work. Amazing. on Sunday, April 17th 2005 at 11:24pm, Marshall said: I thought that the angle on Tim Greenfield-Sanders' work was selling big naked photos of pornstars will make you boatloads of money. Just tag on a weighty statement to keep from looking like someone who might just enjoy taking photos of nekkid folks. Naked NY, LA or London are far superior, and more original, bodies of work. on Monday, July 25th 2005 at 10:29pm, Hillbilly Jones said: Wow, thanks for the pictures! I have to go to the bathroom now with a roll of Brawny. on Saturday, December 3rd 2005 at 11:42pm, Helmut said: I think Helmut Newton did the naked/clothed thing a long time back. Just saying. on Sunday, December 4th 2005 at 1:43am, mjp said: In some posed, super-stylized, typically lifeless Helmut Newton images, yeah. The point of this is that Greg Friedler did the pictures of people just standing and facing the camera first, which Timothy Greenfield-Sanders then imitated for his idiotic project. It's an idiotic project because you can see any of the people in his pictures naked anytime you want to. Friedler showed us everyday people, who you can't see naked unless they invite you home for frozen pizza and Jagermeister. on Saturday, February 25th 2006 at 10:18pm, melissa sue said: currently watching the documentary on this pornophotoproject ON DEMAND right now. About as interesting as... well, listening to porn stars talk. side note, i had to dig to find this entry to post this comment. i've been reading your blathering crap for too long. Ha. on Monday, February 27th 2006 at 10:42pm, mjp said: Ah, Melissa, that's why I added the search, just for you, so you could easily find all the porn stars on the site. I know it's difficult to differentiate, what with the many porn stars featured here. On a related note, I found a picture just like these side by side clothed/naked pictures the other day, and it was from 1903 or something. I'll see if I can find it and post it here. There are no original ideas for any of us. And here it is. From 1935, not 1903. But you get the idea.  on Monday, January 1st 2007 at 1:45am, Hillbilly Jones said: I think the porn star from 1935 is cool as hell. I want to see former porn stars—all currently over the age of sixty-five—naked and clothed at the height of their careers and naked and clothed today. Front and back. The older the better. Now that’s art, baby! Put a real camel toe beside the women for comparison and a John Holmes life-sized poster beside the men. And show them having sex with each other today, with their hearing aids and floor-dragging nipples and tongues flaying about as if looking for a light switch in the middle of the night. on Monday, January 1st 2007 at 9:12pm, Andrew Olin Jones said: Hillbilly, I love you, dude, but you're one sick MF. Why don't you paint a dog turd and put it in a frame with a price tag? Same thing except the turd would probably bring more on eBay than your idea. You go much farther West than Tulsa in this big old country and you come across arts kooks who cum on their own faces and say LOOK WHAT I'VE CREATED! Sorry, HB, but you're just wrong on this one. Nice broadband though! Dog turds anyone? Only 99 cents plus $4.01 shipping. on Tuesday, January 2nd 2007 at 9:36pm, Hillbilly Jones said: Olin, you have not seen anything clearly since since Ford axed the Explorer, your real first love. Give it up, boy. The Expedition is next. So take your F-350 with leather trimmed quad captain's chairs and heated driver and passenger seats and chill baby. It's just human bodies. You don't put a jock strap on your Black Lab, Buck. Hell, boy, I'm trying to watch the frigging Orange Bowl and you're grossed out by your own species. on Tuesday, November 27th 2007 at 6:50am, Duffy said: Marin County photographer Jay Daniel presented an exhibit of clothed/naked portraits in 1985 called "The Naked Cafe". Newton's collection, "Sie Kommen", featured before/after portraits of models and was from the mid-80s, as well. The 1935 photo proves the idea is not new or original but still powerful. I think you're all missing the point of any of these colections. Being nude is a transformative state, not merely the absence of clothing. The subjects of these portraits present themselves differently in front of the camera when they're naked, even when the poses are identical, save the clothing. This phenomenon occurs whether the subject is a porn star or the shopkeeper down the street. on Thursday, December 13th 2007 at 1:32am, Hillbilly Jones said: That first black and white picture of the chick at the top left of the page reminds me of Donna Goodpasture in the 11th grade. Even in her teens Donna had that I CAN BE YOUR GRANDMA OR I CAN BE YOUR WHORE look to her. She made good grades too and disappeared into dark corners under the stands at Friday night football games with the hoods who smoked cigarettes and combed their hair slowly with Brylcreem. I felt her up on a church hayride when we double dated with my cousin, Ben Adams Davis, and Sue Jan Smith, a skinny cheerleader with long legs and Marilyn Monroe lips. on Thursday, December 13th 2007 at 9:40pm, damian said: i'd almost rather read the spam. on Friday, December 21st 2007 at 11:37pm, Hillbilly Jones said: ROFLMAO I hee hawed out loud when I read your post, damian. Give yourself two brownie points. I'm still laughing. ***the crowd applauds like at the end of a Broadway play starring Frank Sinatra, Jesus Christ, and Ben Gazarra. smog.blog powered by buddy V2.0 |