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Kiss of Fire
First, full disclosure: Barbara Nitke is my friend.
Barbara is an exquisitely sensitive photographer whose self-imposed mission is to record lovers at the precise moments when they exchange power, trust and intimacy. Her work (best exempified in her book Kiss of Fire) is not porn; her photos are tinged with sexuality but they're rarely overtly sexual. On the other hand, they won't be easy for everyone to look at. Often they depict dominance, submission and pain. Always they depict love. It's not the naked bodies that jump out at you; it's the naked souls.
Barbara's new show, Illuminata: Are You Curious?, opens on Thursday, November 11 at the Art At Large gallery in New York. If the photos aren't to your taste, you can still go to support Barbara's courageous lawsuit against John Aschcroft and the Communications Decency Act.
Posted by Steve Landsburg on October 30, 2004 at 04:41 PM in Books, The Arts | Permalink
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» Saturday, November 6, 2004 from Log: David Chess
Marginal Revolution links to some amazing photographs of people doing sexually transgressive stuff of various kinds. NSFW to some extent. Probably not anything I'll use in my novel. (Hm, it would be fun to do an X-rated (NC-17-rated) one some year, may... [Read More]
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