|
|
|
I
am a self-taught photographer. I began making pictures in grade school
with a box camera. I became interested in pinhole photography in high
school (a pursuit I have recently returned to). I began nude photography
in 1995. I compose carefully in the camera. I tend to see the subject as
a flat, abstract composition within the rectangle of the film. This way
of seeing was probably influenced by an early interest in the work o
impressionist and post-impressionists painters.
|
Ironically, the compositional traits that attracted me to these painters
may be traceable in large part to the influence of photography on late
19th century painting, suggesting that my approach to composition has
deeper roots. My nude work has been an extension of this tendency,
whatever its source. I approach nude photography as I do any other. I
look for compelling shapes when I look at nude women. Nude photography
has an added dimension, however. It always entails the possibility of an
emotional leap from the pleasure afforded by contemplating the formal
beauty of abstract composition to the more visceral pleasures of sex
suggested by contemplating the body. I believe my work is most
successful when it walks a very fine line between the two, a line that
allows the viewer to move back and forth between them.