Comments on: Quick hit: Uncovered photography project

By: Jogger

Jogger — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:05:14 +0000

I’m pretty new to the whole “accept your body the way it is” thing. I’m a man who hasn’t been seen topless in public for twenty years. It may be legal, but it ain’t socially acceptable when you have a bod like mine. I’m a lifelong dieter who’s still overweight. Go figure.

So the project really spoke to me, especially the comments from people saying, basically, “This is the way my body is. Deal with it.” I still probably won’t show up to work topless tomorrow (for one thing, it’s five below here), but it did make me think real hard about some of the ideas of body-image that I’ve internalized.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:23:46 +0000

I love this photography. It was nice to see a commercial photographer who does not just focus on head shots as well as models etc. I think the ones which worked with text were the best, which does however leave me wondering that if the text were not there, would the images say as much as they currently do? If we didn’t know the meaning behind them? Powerful stuff none the less. I am a photography student, who just so happens to be going to New York in just over a week, so I’ll try and find his work. Thank you for introducing me to this photographer.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:48:10 +0000

(Granted, i’m something of a nudist, and i refused to read the text that went along with the images. Mostly because it was so tiny as to be barely legible on my computer.)

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:44:34 +0000

This was so beautiful and poignant, i had to take my shirt and bra off to feel like i could fully experience it.

By: buffpuff

buffpuff — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:09:02 +0000

Yeah, that one spoke to me too, Buffy. I have a very dear friend who had breast cancer last year, had to have pretty radical surgery and generally went through hell. That someone could be such a bastard makes me so depressed. She was a damned sight politer to him than I would have been.

By: tapiotro3033

tapiotro3033 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:40:19 +0000

What a wonderful testament to the perfection of the human body – even in all of its alleged imperfections!

I sent this link to my WAGS professors and some girlfriends. If only everyone could (would) see it!

By: Buffy

Buffy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:04:10 +0000

This one is pretty powerful. It just spoke to me.

http://www.jordanmatter.com/view.asp?url=/exhibits/broadband/nudes_01/300_rita.jpg&id=300_r&path=/exhibits/broadband/nudes_01

I probably didn’t make it link, cause I’m not familiar with how to do that.

By: Jade

Jade — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:31:02 +0000

I second the comments about the photos being “imperfectly objectified”. Men don’t go topless in the snow, or to work — and nobody can be topless in a Starbucks, by health code. And the BBC video freaked me the hell out, with the female cops being very uncomfortable and nervous while the male cops ogled the shots on the samera, and the photographer grinned at them. Several of the photos were very male gaze on female body in style.

Still, I like the stated intent, if not always the result or method.

By: Mari

Mari — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:28:17 +0000

I take it back. I went through and glanced at ALL of the
pictures. All of the bigger bodies are towards the
ends and what’s funny is that men’s heads are
turning. But wait?! Aren’t men NOT supposed to be
attracted to fat women? I’m going to forward this to
some of my friends . . . the open-minded ones.

By: Mari

Mari — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:23:21 +0000

I looked at some of the pictures and where it was nice to see that thin women don’t all have great bodies, just real bodies, it would have been nice to see more variety of shapes.

The one full-figured woman was a light-skinned black woman
who talked about losing weight. Whereas I applaud the photographer for his efforts, I’m not going to run out and celebrate. I’m sorry, it’s not varied enough for me to make
a big deal about it.