Essays on erotic photography - Inspired by the work “Cámara Secreta (SECRET CAMERA)”.

 Today I want to present to you one of my favorite photography books “Cámara Secreta (SECRET CAMERA)” by the writer Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, this contains a compilation of "Essays of apocryphal and credible stories of erotic photography" as he describes in its cover. This work has become the cornerstone of my solo work about the eroticism of the body, represented with a style coming from the decade of the 20s and 30s. One of its first passages is the perfect synthesis of what i pretend to expose in the gallery that annexes this article, I quote:  

"Zola understood photography not only as a means to document the closest environment, but also as a way of entering his most intimate self-image. Photography always reveals what a face seeks to hide" Pág. 7.  

  It is thus that I have created these images, which lack visual elements but (personally) clearly express the intentions of the author. Returning to quote Mr. Rodríguez Juliá: "Erotic photography will tell us how anonymous and ghostly desire is." Desire, that feeling that invades us when faced with something that in a lot of cases is "unattainable" and photography, for this purposes, is the perfect channel, since it gives the artist the power to capture only the elements that he decides to show, that allow the public to appreciate their work, leaving in the shadows other components that viewers believe important, such as the identity of the model, to give an example.

 The desire towards another's body, is a gesture of admiration, of recognizing in turn our own beauty. When we get closer to that other body our "solid" condition hinders us to fill the foreign body. As this book says on page 27: "It's an upside-down skin change." 

 Returning to the photographic context, images are not a faithful representation of reality since they are subjected to the perception of the author. The creator is in his right to embellish the content, selling us an illusion of the facts, which we often prefer to accept as trustworthy.

  On the other hand, I think that the most honest way to show us "at bare skin" is with the expression, giving free rein to our true self, as indicated in the book on page 117:  

"To be at bare skin, without clothes, is to be oneself. On the contrary, to be naked is to be seen in leather by others, without being recognized as oneself. A body without clothes has to be seen as an object to become a nude. (The vision of the body as an object stimulates its use as an object.) Being without clothes is itself a revelation. To undress is to exhibit us. To be without clothes is to have no disguise." 

That is to say, today I have stripped before you (and I don't mean these images) I mean that I have shown you my perspective on erotic photography and desire around the body. I hope that you also undress before me allowing me to appreciate your comments.