NSFW Photo Series Explores The Beauty Of Female Body From A Never-Seen-Before Perspective
Professional photographer Roger Weiss was finding himself increasingly disassociating with the photographs depicting women, so he set out to capture the natural beauty of a female form in a different way.
Inspired by Kintsugi, a Japanese method for repairing broken things by filling gold in the cracks, Weiss' photo series called “Human Dilatations” features 250 unifying photographs that show how the female body is fragmented and then reassembled. Each of the interesting photos in the series captures a nude body that is slightly dilated and distorted, resulting in a detailed and never-before-seen analysis of every part of the female body. The whole series explores new perspectives of female beauty and the beauty of a naked body.
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This "Never-Seen-Before Perspective" is somewhat old hat. Bill Brandt did it 60-70 years ago and Mann Ray before that.
It is about distorted proportions. Maybe the photographer likes feet...or doesn't...idk if the distortions are supposed to represent positive or negative reactions
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Yes, it is "Art." Art, in it's most basic definition, is a visual representation of ideas or feelings developed with imagination and skill. Just because it doesn't appeal to you, doesn't mean it's not art.
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It seems like most of these are distorted to make them appear taller. I wonder why...
I dont know how to feel about seeing women like this. Was very disempowering to see being a female. Awkward uncomfortable. Made the female species look ugly in such a beauty defined world. Thanks for the betrayal.
It's unnatural, even more unnatural than a heavily edited fashion shoot. I wonder if the choice to shoot nude was for taboo only
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The photographer has only succeeded in taking the beautiful female form and distorting it into something inhuman and hideous. It is not art, it's an amateurish manipulation of images that make no sense with regard to the "beauty of the female body". Fail!
Agreed. It seems to objectify rather than beautify. The shooter managed to hide all their faces, kind of a let down
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Sorry ... But those women are so pretty and you made them so ugly in those pictures... At least that's what i am thinking
Beautiful work. Yes the angle is extremely difficult in terms of flattering the human form, but thats not really a bad thing. Love the work and its reactions. I also have drawn and studied the human form for years now so i guess i simply do not get uncomfortable.
I guess the point is to try to teach that beauty does not matter, and that while these distorted portraits and unflattering, that's exactly the point. It's not beautiful, it's not normal looking. Plus, you know that these women are probably really beautiful, you're just not seeing the right angle. I suppose, they're trying to teach new angles of beauty, all the angles are beautiful - and so, nothing needs to be beautiful, because it already is. Basically, that it doesn't need to be flattering, and that we should stop rejecting the typical photos we see of women (face on, make-up on, trying to look appealing), of women trying to make themselves the normal way of beautiful, rather than just being themselves through and through to every aspect (from every angle), themselves.
I see all these negative comments but I actually found these really cool! I'm a woman and when I looked at these it felt like I was looking at some stylized artwork... it was interesting and beautiful in it's own weird way. The fact that made it so many people uncomfortable makes you wonder why it did that for those individuals. But that's the point of art sometimes, I guess. It's all in the eye of the beholder and how they interpret based on their own experiences and views.
I agree. I found this series interesting and intruiguing because they're so unconventional and unique.
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b******t all i see is young women where are the 40+ women? what too old to show the body? older women are not pretty? all this is just more double standard b******t.
They're in a kitchen somewhere making dinner like they should be while the Mr. Is out with his young pretty side pussy he has that she doesn't know about.
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If this is art nowadays, thanks but no thanks... Unflattering photos, afwul idea.
So many people are upset because "pretty" women were made "ugly". That sentiment just feeds into the notion that pretty is the only way women should be. But I also think that naked women as art is so played out. How about finding new ways to photograph women with clothes on. THAT would be unique.
I feel like a first world anarchist when I browsing these galeries at my workplace.
I like it. I am bored with the same sexual poses. This is organic, different.
Hm. I did like some of the pics (dress, bathing suit) and I like the effects with legs and hands. But since (almost) all models were very skinny and it was AGAIN just bodies without faces, the shoot seems just as degrading and limited as any other photoshoot or art project with faceless, young, skinny, female bodies.
Just another way to distort the female form. These photos read as a collection of body parts.
A full high resolution 3D body scan can achieve unusual distorted human body.
I don’t get it. All I see is objectification, pictures of women with no faces, where the so-called beauty is a pair of legs and the opening in between. I think this is totally outrageous.
One can even say it's an interesting photographic exercise, but honestly I dont like it at all. It also makes the most beautiful parts of a woman as quail of clumsy, deformed. I do not see how he think he have shown the beauty of women, making them ridiculous, awkward, deformed and unnatural. No, I think it's a useless work.
Anorexic models photographed nude by a guy with an extreme case of leg fetshes and astigmatism????
Anorexic models photographed semi nude by a guy with leg fetishes and perhaps extreme case of astigmatism
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Any well else feel like this should be a sculpture? I really feel like being able to walk around from this angle would have made a better point.
I find this very poetic and emotional. I see most viewers do not understand the references to the paleolithical "venus" statues (symbols of fertility) or the paintings by Matisse.
and of course the Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral
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All the images look the same to me, as most are taken from the same angle. If I want to look at a Giacommenti (sorry about the spelling), I'll look at a Giacommenti.
So a man who's tired of looking at traditional pictures of nude, skinny, conventionally attractive, completely hairless women makes a photoshoot of nude, skinny, conventionally attractive, completely hairless women but from ~unconventional~ angles. And because the angle makes them look not conventionally attractive, the worst thing that could befall a member of the female species, it's art. Oh no, wait, it's the fact that we can still find the conventionally attractive women 'beautiful'. Riiight. Such horrible distortion. So grotesque. The horror. Artists sure are getting uncreative lately.
52 shots, two with faces... 50 shot wide from the feet looking towards the head. The only variety is in the model, I'd call it a fail
My main issue was the lack of variety in size. Most of the women would not be what one would consider "plus size" does that mean that the fuller figured woman is not attractive because that's pretty much what it's screams at me
I do sometimes wonder about the human definition of beauty. This photo series is maybe not my cup of tea, but it is powerfully thought provoking.
I don't think that this angle and lens capture the 'beauty' of women, but was interesting to see a new perspective.
Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral already did this 100 years ago in painting. Check "Abaporu".
This is interesting, but illustrators have been creating images like this for decades. The abstraction created by wide angle lens and angle should have been an approach used well before not but as in all new things it takes someone to do it first.
I really dislike this. I like the use of natural models, that aside, it's not shot to accentuate beauty. The intent seems to distort
... photographing women, especially with intent to accentuate beauty, I don know how you can purposefully leave a face out. Bummer
Load More Replies... I dont know how to feel about seeing women like this. Was very disempowering to see being a female. Awkward uncomfortable. Made the female species look ugly in such a beauty defined world. Thanks for the betrayal.
It's unnatural, even more unnatural than a heavily edited fashion shoot. I wonder if the choice to shoot nude was for taboo only
Load More Replies... The photographer has only succeeded in taking the beautiful female form and distorting it into something inhuman and hideous. It is not art, it's an amateurish manipulation of images that make no sense with regard to the "beauty of the female body". Fail!
Agreed. It seems to objectify rather than beautify. The shooter managed to hide all their faces, kind of a let down
Load More Replies... Sorry ... But those women are so pretty and you made them so ugly in those pictures... At least that's what i am thinking
Beautiful work. Yes the angle is extremely difficult in terms of flattering the human form, but thats not really a bad thing. Love the work and its reactions. I also have drawn and studied the human form for years now so i guess i simply do not get uncomfortable.
I guess the point is to try to teach that beauty does not matter, and that while these distorted portraits and unflattering, that's exactly the point. It's not beautiful, it's not normal looking. Plus, you know that these women are probably really beautiful, you're just not seeing the right angle. I suppose, they're trying to teach new angles of beauty, all the angles are beautiful - and so, nothing needs to be beautiful, because it already is. Basically, that it doesn't need to be flattering, and that we should stop rejecting the typical photos we see of women (face on, make-up on, trying to look appealing), of women trying to make themselves the normal way of beautiful, rather than just being themselves through and through to every aspect (from every angle), themselves.
I see all these negative comments but I actually found these really cool! I'm a woman and when I looked at these it felt like I was looking at some stylized artwork... it was interesting and beautiful in it's own weird way. The fact that made it so many people uncomfortable makes you wonder why it did that for those individuals. But that's the point of art sometimes, I guess. It's all in the eye of the beholder and how they interpret based on their own experiences and views.
I agree. I found this series interesting and intruiguing because they're so unconventional and unique.
Load More Replies... b******t all i see is young women where are the 40+ women? what too old to show the body? older women are not pretty? all this is just more double standard b******t.
They're in a kitchen somewhere making dinner like they should be while the Mr. Is out with his young pretty side pussy he has that she doesn't know about.
Load More Replies... If this is art nowadays, thanks but no thanks... Unflattering photos, afwul idea.
So many people are upset because "pretty" women were made "ugly". That sentiment just feeds into the notion that pretty is the only way women should be. But I also think that naked women as art is so played out. How about finding new ways to photograph women with clothes on. THAT would be unique.
I feel like a first world anarchist when I browsing these galeries at my workplace.
I like it. I am bored with the same sexual poses. This is organic, different.
Hm. I did like some of the pics (dress, bathing suit) and I like the effects with legs and hands. But since (almost) all models were very skinny and it was AGAIN just bodies without faces, the shoot seems just as degrading and limited as any other photoshoot or art project with faceless, young, skinny, female bodies.
Just another way to distort the female form. These photos read as a collection of body parts.
A full high resolution 3D body scan can achieve unusual distorted human body.
I don’t get it. All I see is objectification, pictures of women with no faces, where the so-called beauty is a pair of legs and the opening in between. I think this is totally outrageous.
One can even say it's an interesting photographic exercise, but honestly I dont like it at all. It also makes the most beautiful parts of a woman as quail of clumsy, deformed. I do not see how he think he have shown the beauty of women, making them ridiculous, awkward, deformed and unnatural. No, I think it's a useless work.
Anorexic models photographed nude by a guy with an extreme case of leg fetshes and astigmatism????
Anorexic models photographed semi nude by a guy with leg fetishes and perhaps extreme case of astigmatism
I just found tons of free Steam games at http://getsteambonus.com You can choose any game you want!
Any well else feel like this should be a sculpture? I really feel like being able to walk around from this angle would have made a better point.
I find this very poetic and emotional. I see most viewers do not understand the references to the paleolithical "venus" statues (symbols of fertility) or the paintings by Matisse.
and of course the Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral
Load More Replies... All the images look the same to me, as most are taken from the same angle. If I want to look at a Giacommenti (sorry about the spelling), I'll look at a Giacommenti.
So a man who's tired of looking at traditional pictures of nude, skinny, conventionally attractive, completely hairless women makes a photoshoot of nude, skinny, conventionally attractive, completely hairless women but from ~unconventional~ angles. And because the angle makes them look not conventionally attractive, the worst thing that could befall a member of the female species, it's art. Oh no, wait, it's the fact that we can still find the conventionally attractive women 'beautiful'. Riiight. Such horrible distortion. So grotesque. The horror. Artists sure are getting uncreative lately.
52 shots, two with faces... 50 shot wide from the feet looking towards the head. The only variety is in the model, I'd call it a fail
My main issue was the lack of variety in size. Most of the women would not be what one would consider "plus size" does that mean that the fuller figured woman is not attractive because that's pretty much what it's screams at me
I do sometimes wonder about the human definition of beauty. This photo series is maybe not my cup of tea, but it is powerfully thought provoking.
I don't think that this angle and lens capture the 'beauty' of women, but was interesting to see a new perspective.
Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral already did this 100 years ago in painting. Check "Abaporu".
This is interesting, but illustrators have been creating images like this for decades. The abstraction created by wide angle lens and angle should have been an approach used well before not but as in all new things it takes someone to do it first.
I really dislike this. I like the use of natural models, that aside, it's not shot to accentuate beauty. The intent seems to distort
... photographing women, especially with intent to accentuate beauty, I don know how you can purposefully leave a face out. Bummer
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