I sometimes feel I am talking to myself. There is something amazingly egocentric about writing blog posts. That assumption that someone cares about what it is you have to say, and it is significant enough that you should put it out there for the world.
People leaving comments make you feel like someone is reading it and might even care, but normally it is people I know in the real world commenting anyway. Occasionally, I have the audacity to think I might expose someone to a photographer they have never seen.
And then there are days like today where I question my beliefs about nudity in artwork. The pole dancer image by Philip-Lorca diCorcia I posted friday afternoon was viewed over 150 times in a little over a day. That surpasses the number of times a portrait I posted in March has been viewed up until the time of my writing this entry.
Are people looking for artwork on the web? And if so, are they looking for any certain aesthetic, or are people just looking for tits?
personally, i’m looking for boobs. your site just makes me feel better about myself. you know, like it’s an artistic calling to look at boobs.
seriously, though: for me, this is the go-to site for photographic art. keep it up mang!
I read it. But I share your sentiment about the nature of blogging. However, I also think there is something extremely empowering about blogging. It kind of reminds me of the end of Pump Up the Volume. You’ve got a voice, does it really matter if there are 1 or a 1000 people listening? I think what one needs to be careful of is the kind of self-absorbed narcissism you see most often out on the net. Your posts are about you, they are about ideas, events, and attitudes.
Okay, I’m starting to sound too much like a cheerleader.
I read it and I have tits.
I scored my grandmother’s copy of People Mag, which I would never buy for myself, obviously, and found that the Style Watch section is a bunch of lame celebrity portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Ah, the dizzying heights he has acheived!
Wasn’t Adler photographed by him for a gallery?
Yes. I’ll look around and see if there’s an image online, or maybe I can scan somethhing later so that you can see it.
i think you should keep up the work, but you should ALSO keep in mind that the title for the photo kicks off some people out there searching.
Take a picture of a shoe and call it “Jennifer Garner Naked” and see how many hits you get.
Once i wrote a short post about Star Jones, (daytime TV talk show personality). I know nothing about her other than what i said above, but when she got married i couldn’t quit hearing stories about her extravagant wedding. i was SICK of it, so i posted a little blurb called “I Hate Starr Jones” (and i don’t, really). none the less, the phrase “Hate Starr Jones” is one of my most consistent searched phrases that lead to my blog.
I’d say someing called “Pole Dancing” could have a similar effect.
well, i don’t post much, but this is one of my most favorite sites. i love the artistic information that you pour out at me, i don’t get that kind of passion here in the ‘ville.
and, until you linked it on this page, i hadn’t seen the pole dancer but have looked at your portraits many, many times.