Sex & Art: Jock Sturges - Celebrating Adolescent Sexuality |
| Published: April 19, 2008, 10:38 am |
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Jock Sturges has long been a lightning rod for controversy for his distinctive brand of nude photography He shoots much of his work around nudist beaches in France and northern California, and his most frequent subjects have been adolescent girlsSourceJock Sturges [born 1947] has long been a lightning rod for controversy for his distinctive brand of nude photography. Sturges shoots much of his work around nudist beaches in France and northern California, and his most frequent subjects have been adolescent girls. The photos have an undeniably erotic quality, unlike some types of nude photography that treat the human body more as abstract form. However, Sturges aims to draw out the models' own sense of burgeoning sexuality in a straightforward, personal, non-voyeuristic way. Sturges uses a large-format camera to create extremely detailed, finegrained images, while his strong feel for sunlight bathes his models and settings with a shimmering quality. In his writings, Sturges prides [ Full article ] |
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