Leonardo,
Thanks for the kindness in sharing and the self-effacing humor!
Why give us you most under rated picture? Still, I do not think you are a crazy megalomaniac for that particular reason, although, now you mention it, it does raise questions on why you would use the word "Paradigm", worse, with the definite article and even more improbable, delivered, capitalized!
What paradigm? "The" paradigm. That puzzles me more than the picture, LOL!
Putting that aside, the photograph interests me for all its layers. Having layers is essentially what gets uncovered in a good drama, with each scene undoing one more level of structure hiding the truth or the lies!
Here you have provided different smooth and patterned textures and core it seems is going to be related to the woman being undressed. This part of the image construction I do find agreeable.
The upturn in the cloth in the lower left did annoy me at first but then I see it repeats the unfolding pattern of cloth around her. So I'm now not sure of that part of the composition. I'm now not even certain this is a thigh but instead perhaps an arm? I wish there was more form to the limb and it wasn't foreshortened. That's not because I like it so much that I want more, rather I think the composition might be more satisfying showing more of the form that is not shown. So, is that lack of definition then related to use "The"? That I cannot fathom as yet.
The lighting seems forced, but maybe that's the point, like sunrise or sunset, starting or ending a chapter in her life. Is that then the paradigm?
The fact that I'm still so puzzled argues against either my wit, education and understanding or that the picture represents nothing archetypical or clearly defined or executed.
Despite these reservations I'm intrigued enough to want to see more of this shoot and learn about your thoughts that led you to give this strange image such a definite but incomprehensible title
Asher
Hi Asher!
Well... Going by parts, as Dr. Jackill said XD
Underrated because most people don't try to figure out what's there. Something like "I don't recognice, I don't like, I keep walking", this picture goes far beyond the way the brain recognices and identifies shapes and forms. Some people see the image as it was meant, others see the image as they are meant. Each person see different things here, but mostly nothing.
Because all what you say here, I consider this image, but not the image it self, but the idea that generates inside each brain, The Paradigm. Capitalized, becuase I felt like a public speech before thousand of empty spaces! Like Obama in his speech where there were thousand of people, but without people. A megalomaniac soliloquy!!! That's why it was capitalized! =D
The Paradigm of photography! Why? Because one form (this photo) represents many forms, many ideas and most of them are stated by each mind as the only one. We are familiarized that a picture is more a "pictrue" and we state many different points of view with imperative words. This picture is not only rich in meanings, also rich in shapes. It's illusory and real at teh same time. "Having layers is essentially what gets uncovered in a good drama, with each scene undoing one more level of structure hiding the truth or the lies!" and here is the point! Lie or Truth, Truth or Lies, they really exists? Most of the time our concepts, our languaje doesn't fit with the meaning. This picture escapes from the index, escapes from the icon, the symbols and the meanings at the same time that it has all those parameters, hidden in the apparent "non structure" of the picture or "pictrue" The structure is there, but not visible at first sight. To see the structure, we should set our perception in other way, not in the expected. We barely can distinguish the index here. But the index is there.
Photography represents reality, well, this photograph doesn't and it does, instantly represents many realities and unrealities and illusions and the thing it self. This is not a photography at the same time it's. This photo argues against the concept of Photography at the same time it's a photograph! It's bloody fantastic!
The light was coming from window and a 500 watts lamp I had near the bed. Spontaneus shot while my girlfriend was sleeping.
Yes!!! That's part of the arm, specially the elbow, which is not iside the frame. Looking at this picture in that way you can draw in your brain the other parts of the body. Most people don't see that part of the arm and they finish stating that the image is: 1) a biceps (I did a big effrot and yeah, looks like a biceps) 2) A rape/violation (to see that, you have to inconsciusly think on rapes and read the image as the iliac bone is the butt and her back is a leg, but looking the picture in that way looks untidy composed) and 3) a lying body with the sex looking straight to the camera, legs opened like a V but you only see 1 leg (which is the her back and torso, in terms of something more graphic, imagine a girl droped on the floor and the camera put on the floor as well, between her legs) I also have to do a big effort in order to see the biceps, the rape and the lying subject because I see what I represented.
The image doesn't need a bigger framming because what I portrayed is The Paradigm! The Paradigm of Women! and, therefore, The Paradigm of Photography!!! And what's that!? The iliac bone in her hip ^^ I love that bone, I consider it the most sexiest part of the female body
That's why the iliac is almost in the third of the framming
I will send you the image explained to your inbox
So the mistery and the underating keeps the same ^^
