Friday, September 5, 2008

photography as an important visual catalyst of sexuality

Nobuyoshi Araki, Untitled, 1993
Christer Strömholm, Place Blanche, 1960's

"Photography shows and stylizes lust and passion, fantasy and desire, power and violence, voyeurism and self-presentation in sexuality. Fantasy and desire form a thrilling pact with photography: sexual fantasies demand representation; they seek to be revealed—and photography, with its voyeuristic streak, makes use of the power of (pictorial) eroticism for its own ends, in order to gain power and be seductive."
from FOTOMUSEUM WINTERTHUR.

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