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Sex Advice from Photographers

Sex advice from Photographers on NERVE. I doled out some advice to Will Doig of Nerve. What is there now is only partial advice, you'll have to become a subsrciber to read all of the advice. Hope it helps.

i BLOG for a nod

I've made it! The bloggers & myspace kids have found me and decorated their slivers of cyber space with my polaroids. Of course it would be nice to be credited or have a link to my website. So Hey, SAY-LUNA, JANE ADAMS, SUCKERFORVINYL, SH!LPA :D thanks. Thanks for the nod & I'm glad you liked the images.

Square America

America Squared.
I have a new treasure, Square America, see it HERE. I personally went straight HERE, to the guns section, 'cause well, that's me, (earlier post HERE). Curiously enough I didn't see any photos of gun-toting babes, like HERE, HERE, HERE and of course HERE. I guess women didn't pose like that in "vernacular" photography during the first half of the last century. There were a lot of kids with guns, cowboys and soldiers to make up for the lack of gun-toting babes. Americans like there guns.

The reason I'm so attracted to these images and the many like them is, I hope, maybe even expect to find myself in them. If not me, then maybe, just maybe a long lost photo of my parents or grandparents. A hidden treasure to answer all the unanswered  and unanswerable questiuons. I have not. But I keep coming back.

Documenting The Migrant Party-goer in a Polyester Suit

Its nice that technology has made a place for a good party photographer to stand along side Patrick McMullan. Merlin Bronques has done just that or so says the NYT HERE. Porn, Fun, Voyeuristic, or Party, its a good time. And you are only as good as last night. Check it out HERE. The 70s produced another chronicler of the times, Mapplethorpe. That's right, that famed banned photographer was a really good beautifier, documenting the gay under belly (and sometimes the tops and bottoms) of a scene, a party scene. When you are having that much fun don't you want everybody to know. Or don't you want to be reminded later. Sontag's rolling over in her grave right now. Thanks Mr. Bronques for focusing on people and not the celebrity. I hope you remain so pure. Just think of it Mr. Bronques you could be seen as an FSA-esq photographer of the millennial party set. Where is your "Migrant Party-goer" or "Denizen in Polyester Suit?" There will always be a playground, thank good ness.

Special note: Thanks for thinking of me JW, I'm thinking of you too. I thought I might want this to happen to me too. You may remember me stumbling in, jetting off, or just making a lot of nosie as I passed your door. It was the heels.

Tagging Madonna

Madonna.com wants you to tag. The "Icon's" newly launched site now has a place for fans to send in their collected pictures of Madonna. By sending an email to tagging@madonna.com of a photo "tagged" with numerous one word descriptions. This will create a searchable archive much like Wikipedia. I hope its as self correcting too. Guidelines are posted HERE. I find this interesting because there is a small history of photography that runs through Madonna, from Herb Ritts to Horst P. Horst.  I wonder if people realize this?

Tagging brings the fans together
Strike a tag
What it feels like for a tag
Desperately Seeking a tag
Don't tag Me
Tagline
Tagging Up
Live to tag
Tag another day
Sidewalk Tag
You must be my lucky-tag
Like a Tag
Like a Tag
Beautiful Tagger
Justify My Tag
Where's the Tag
Tag a Bow

Yeah, I couldn't help myself.

Meeting Eliot Shepard

Go meet Eliot Shepard. He has a photo for you and an interview on Gallery Hopper, HERE.