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Photography as Art Work the photographer believes might command artistic value beyond their own circle. As usual in OPF, these submissions merit critique based on intent, context and purpose. This might cover technique, composition and the like. To go out in the world, however, far more might be expected, even for things of beauty or great craft. Art criticism is harder. It requires knowledge of the arts, literature, history and esthetics. Criticism comes from study of the photograph and related works. It's an assessment of how this work might stand our culture. As Dante warned: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here!

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Old April 24th, 2011, 10:24 AM
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Default Women Portraits that
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Old April 24th, 2011, 11:08 AM
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Thanks Fahim for that great link! This is one of the best! One could spend thousands of hours going through each of those individual picture showing women in so many poses to the left right, neck high, hair curly or flowing, even modern and abstract.

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What I find so fascinating is that is how few would be considered to be good looking by todays standards. No doubt books have been written on the subject of course...
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Old April 27th, 2011, 07:38 AM
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What I find so fascinating is that is how few would be considered to be good looking by todays standards. No doubt books have been written on the subject of course...
The last 30 seconds is interesting !
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Old April 27th, 2011, 06:48 PM
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Great video, Fahim.

Ben, I had exactly the same thought.
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Old April 27th, 2011, 10:39 PM
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Unfortunately, all I get is: "This video contains content from SME. It is not available in your country."
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Old April 27th, 2011, 11:35 PM
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Jerome, I tried it now. It works here.
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Old April 29th, 2011, 09:12 AM
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Jerome, I tried it now. It works here.
I never doubted it does. But the video is not viewable from Germany. Most people do not realize that youtube can and does block individual video on a country by country basis, usually because the copyright owner requested so and copyright is dealt with on a country by country basis. The GEMA being one of the most assertive copyright owner in the world, and presently suing youtube another time (it is in the press), if one accesses the Internet from Germany, many youtube videos are blocked to German-based i.p. addresses.
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Old April 29th, 2011, 01:32 PM
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Unfortunately, all I get is: "This video contains content from SME. It is not available in your country."
So this was just a statement. And not, as I understood, for me to check the url I had given.

You seem to know the probable cause of the youtube link not working at your end.

I am sorry I could not help you further.

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Old April 30th, 2011, 12:21 AM
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What I find so fascinating is that is how few would be considered to be good looking by todays standards.
Yes, the conception of beauty has also undergone changes over time in other civilizations & cultures.
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Old April 30th, 2011, 02:47 AM
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So this was just a statement. And not, as I understood, for me to check the url I had given.

You seem to know the probable cause of the youtube link not working at your end.

I am sorry I could not help you further.

Kindest regards.

Sorry for the misunderstanding: yes, it was simply a statement and you can't do anything about it.

On other forums, many people do not realize that youtube is not the same depending on the country you sit in, post links which are not viewable in some parts of the world and then wonder when people do not answer their posts.
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