a nice little bit of appreciation i just stumbled across. thanks, whoever you are. i don’t know what i’d do with all those assistants though. take their pictures, i suppose…
Hey, I know - let’s fire ninety percent of photographers who work in porn/erotica. The people laid off can sign up to work as assistants for this gentleman. After an apprenticeship, funded by the stimulus package, they can return to making a living shooting truly erotic photos. In five years the word “porn” will become an arcane factoid. Something that comes up on Jeopardy.
Meanwhile, erotic photography will not be left to tumblr, Taschen, crudely designed websites or brown paper bags. You’ll be able to go to a library in any major city and walk into their tastefully decorated erotic photography section, provided you are old enough and have valid ID to prove it.
In time, mothers will make pilgrimages to these places with their eighteen year old daughters. They’ll specifically seek out this photograph, the one that started it all. They’ll say to their daughters, “Daughter, when you get older and serious with someone, if he or she doesn’t make you feel like this, doesn’t make you want to feel like this, doesn’t have a voice or a smile or a scent or a way of touching you that makes you want to do this to yourself on a lunch break in your car, then do not marry or cohabitate with that person, no matter how rich, smart, sweet or funny they may be.”
Fathers will do the same with their sons. They’ll say, “Son, look at that. You can make that happen, if you use your mind instead of just your dick. I know it’s tough when you’re eighteen and it yells so much you can barely hear yourself think. But take some time and give some effort and you can do this. You can make the woman who really matters to you melt in a car, just by thinking of you. Now who doesn’t want that? But you have to not just use your dick. Got me bud? If by chance you’re into guys, then you can probably go ahead and just use your dick. They got another section here for that.”
photo by aeric meredith-goujon