Tortured Bodies

[LabRat]

I have read Paul Outerbridge would shoot 8X10 Kodachromes of nudes, but when sent to Kodak for processing, they returned the processed chromes, but the hair had been retouched out (well), but seemed more unnatural without (and potentially more "pornographic" as even more "nude")... :0

Steve K

[John Layton]

...but did Kodak have an established policy that such retouching would be performed? If not, I'd have sued!

[LabRat]

...but did Kodak have an established policy that such retouching would be performed? If not, I'd have sued!

Go on, try to sue Kodak... You produced the items in question???

At least he got his chromes back... :0

Steve K

[jnantz]

Go on, try to sue Kodak... You produced the items in question???

At least he got his chromes back... :0

Steve K

LOL. and not the state police trying to arrest him !

I knew people who were reported on by some lab and .. well, lets just say it didn't end in a cigar, a wink and a back slap ..
they had their kid taken away from them for a period of time, and were on national news. she's a lawyer now(too) from what I remember .

[Tin Can]

My Last ever Wife
retouched

8x10 Chromes

They used

Courier

[alkman]

The question about art and pornography has persisted for a long time and will likely continue due to changing tastes and cultural mores.

The surrealist Hans Bellmer shot a series of photographs of Unic Zurn nude bound with rope that are disturbing, tortured, possibly pornographic...They defamiliarize, and to a great degree dehumanize, the physical body.

[Jim Noel]

Weston (?) obsessed over poring at one of his nudes while the model was still in the room, worried that a barely visible glimpse of pubic hair would mean the photo would be rejected by galleries.

It wa hte US Mail that rejected images with so much as a single pubic hair visible. Thus the magazines had no choice.

[Vaughn]

Mortensen could have, and probably did, write the book on hair removal...

[Tin Can]

I prefer hair