Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) ~ [Untitled nude, back to camera, leaning right] Collection érotique de Michel Simon | src Ader
La sensualità è uno degli aspetti più indagati dall’arte e più presenti fra le sale dei musei. Lo scopriremo grazie a B-Side – Il lato nascosto dell’arte, viaggio intrapreso da Caroline Pochon e Allan Rothschild attraverso la storia della rappresentazione del fondoschiena, oggetto proibito del desiderio su cui si sono concentrati gli sguardi di molti artisti. (src Artribune)
Photograph by Pierre Louÿs; from : B-Side – Il lato nascosto dell’arte : da Courbet ai migliori “lati b” mai dipinti e scolpiti | Artribune also in : La face cachée des fesses, documentaire de Caroline Pochon et Allan Rothschild
La face cachée des fesses, documentaire diffusé sur Arte évoquera plus particulièrement les fantasmes et les tabous que suscitent nos postérieurs en s’appuyant sur ses différentes représentations à travers les siècles. Le film de Caroline Pochon et Allan Rothschild, deux passionnés d’histoire de l’art, proposera une étude des mœurs centrée sur les fesses et tentera d’expliquer les fantasmes collectifs au sujet de notre arrière-train. (link to source)
Female Nude. Attributed to Félix Jacques Moulin (French, 1802 – 1875); 1856; Albumen silver print. From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src l’œil de la photographieAnonyme, Académie, vers 1845, daguerréotype. From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src l’œil de la photographieAnonyme, Nu, vers 1848, daguerréotype (stereo). From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src l’œil de la photographieTwo Women Embracing. Unknown French maker; about 1848; Daguerreotype, hand-colored. From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src l’œil de la photographie
The title is intriguing: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique». (“Reconsidering erotic photography”). The text itself is brilliant and of great intelligence.
In this 1987 essay, historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau traces avenues for exploring a history of erotic and pornographic photographic production, a history hitherto repressed and absent from narratives. Thus opening the door to a feminist and revised history of the photographic medium, she shows how much this imagery has been abundant and present almost from the origins of photography. In “Reconsidering erotic photography”, Abigail Solomon-Godeau analyzes the ways in which naked bodies are presented in several photographic images from the 1840s-1850s, whether academic nudes or images intended for other types of visual consumption, and questions the specificity of photographic representation as opposed to other mediums. Supporting feminist theories, she raises the question of how these images are viewed, and the ambiguity of their designation, between eroticism and pornography. At the heart of this pioneering essay in the history of photography, she defends the need to write the history of these often set aside productions.
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