PHOTO SEX - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940208326 ISBN 13: 9780940208322

Publisher: Down There Press, 2015

Synopsis

Photo Sex offers both an expanded vision of the nature of photography--that fine art photography legitimately includes the subject of unapologetic sex--and an expanded vision of the nature of sex--that sex involves more than sexual intercourse and its attendant foreplay, more than the pursuit of orgasm.

The premise is that each photo in the book is a sexual photograph in this sense. This, of course, begs the question, "What is sex?" a question that each person will answer differently. Photo Sex collectively offers the author/photographer's personal perspective on what is included in the sexual realm--a perspective which is fairly broad.

A wide audience for photography views sex in a more complex, subtle, and interesting way than commercial pornography can offer. This broad audience includes women as well as men, and people of all ages, ethnicities, and sexual orientations who are interested in exploring sex in depth, rather than reducing its complexity and wonder to cliches.

Photo Sex is inclusive in its choice of both subjects and subject matter, with images of middle-aged and older people as well as youth, of heavy people as well as thin, of people who represent a broad range of genders, ethnicities, sexual tastes, and sexual orientations. The photos confirm that all sorts of "ordinary" people are both sexy and sexual.

About this title

About the Author

Author, editor, and publisher Steinberg is a leading voice for sex-positive culture, a perspective which embraces and promotes open dialogue around human sexuality, and in his words, "a basic acceptance and appreciation of diverse sexual feeling and expression."

From the Back Cover

Think of this book as both an announcement and an invitation. It is an announcement that sex has come to be recognized by growing numbers of skilled and thoughtful photographers as an aspect of life fully deserving the attention and nuanced perspective of fine art. And it is an invitation to you, the viewer of these photographs, to experience some of the work that has been generated by that intersection of sexual awareness, artful insight, and photographic technique -- an experience that may change what you think of both sex and photography, perhaps even of yourself.

From the Inside Flap

The book in your hand is not just another volume of loosely defined "erotic" photography in which formal nude studies and elaborately staged but fictional sexual scenarios predominate. These are photographs of everyday people -- not hired models or professional sex workers -- engaged in real sex, pictures made by photographers intent on describing the ways in which we live our quotidian sexual lives, images of people who feel entitled to allow photographers the privilege of observing such intimacies. -- A. D. Coleman, from the Foreword

Edition details

• Publisher: Down There Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0940208326
• ISBN 13: 9780940208322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100