Naked Ladies Riding the Paris Metro
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Huh?Paris Metro authorities, the RATP, are conducting an inquiry to find out how photographer Jam Abelanet was able to take these arty shots of nekked babes posed in the Metro. Be photoshopped wouldn't it? Pretty cool though. NotSafeForWork. More here at Jam's site. The book is out this week. Title? Fantaisies Souterraines - Underground Fantasies. So my question is - if it has indeed been photoshopped - how did he do it? After hours? This shot particularly. The photographer reckons he took every shot in situ either early in the morning or late at night. With the exception of one shot. Ah hah.
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The photographer says he was only challenged once during his photo sessions, receiving a 25 euro fine for crossing a safety barrier without permission.
He added that all the models stripped off once they were inside the Metro. Well yeah...would have looked pretty funny if they'd walked through the turnstiles in the bollocky.
"The subway is a place that everyone knows by heart, but it is always represented in the same manner," he said.
"To go and seek ignored aesthetics and to immortalise women’s bodies in their natural state was interesting." Quite.
CheekyThe RATP has asked the photographer to remove some of the photos from his book because they're worried that some bozos might try to copycat the dangerous positions. I love Paris, don't you?
This has, of course, been done before. Most notably by celebrated nudie snapper Helmut Newton
Oh yeah...now I can say as seen on BoingBoing. Leave a comment below if you have any idea how he did these. Baring in mind (pun intended) that he says he took all of them, except one, in situ - in the original place. I don't believe it.
From a story I found reading the free Metro newspaper on the Metro (in French).
BTW here's the latest Paris Metro ad here - I can't help but wonder whether Jam would have made a better one.
Malcolm Lambe is an Australian brain surgeon based in Paris. He's currently writing "Do It Yourself Frontal Lobotomy" due out next Fall.
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But with today's everybody's camphones and blogs, artists provocations really needs to be more.. artistic than subversive. ;)
Doesn't it look like he just snapped them real quick? The people surrounding the model in the examples above have what I would imagine are somewhat typical facial reactions: either they are looking, and thinking, "What now?" Or they are not looking, with that typical, "Not getting involved" expression city dwellers use.
If it's supposed to be art, it falls fall short. While the compositions and lighting are adequate, there is nothing in these photos to make you sit back and say, "now that's a GREAT photograph!"
About the only thing worth discussing is "Is it live, or is it Photoshop?"
Art is in the eye of the beholder. You say "there is nothing in these photos to make you sit back and say, "now that's a GREAT photograph!"
Oh yeah? You'd probably look at a Van Gogh or a Picasso and say the same. Moron.
it's been done
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I think that people who indulge in negative criticism of other people's photos shoul be prepared to show some of their own. Usually the ones who are most critical have really crappy photos themselves.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael_davies
We all see what we want to see. I choose to keep my outlook positive, so, I see "ladies." All in all, if you see "trash", you're simply seeing the content of your own mind reflected in the external world.