NSFW Photo Series Explores The Beauty Of Female Body From A Never-Seen-Before Perspective
Photographer Roger Weiss was finding himself increasingly disassociating with the photographs depicting women, so he set out to capture the female form in a different way.
Inspired by Kintsugi, a Japanese method for repairing broken things by filling gold in the cracks, Weiss' series called “Human Dilatations” features 250 unifying photographs that show how the female body is fragmented and then reassembled. Each photo in the series captures a body that is slightly dilated and distorted, resulting in a detailed analysis of every part of the female body. The whole series explores new perspectives of female beauty.
More info: Human Dilatations (h/t: dazeddigital)
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Using an extremely wide lense, is certainly a less than flattering way to depict a woman. I think I will pass. :(
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
Why would you want to have clothes on them? Only dilutes the message.
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Teaching people about the beauty of a thing by *distorting* it and making it grotesque is neither artistic nor intelligent. It's an exercise in getting the politically correct to agree that the king does indeed have clothes.
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
Wow, what horribly unflattering pictures.
'Enjoy being objectified from a brand new angle!'
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No one is trying to objectify anyone here. If seeing the female body automatically means objectification to you, then you should ask yourself why. When I see this it's just the female body to me. I've seen art projects that use male bodies as well. Why do people jump to the worst possible conclusion right away :( If it were about objectification I do not think they would distort the body in a way that made so many people uncomfortable.
I'm not so sure, orenji. When I see a project like this I find myself asking: why all female? Some distorted male images would be equally interesting and appealing, but there are none. So the artist HAS displayed a gender bias in this project. Why? There are lots of possible answers, and only the artist themself could tell us the real reason, but there's at least some possibility that they objectify the female form.
So after digging deeper, the link to the project itself says the intent was to BREAK DOWN stereotypical beauty standards for women. That doesn't sound like objectification... http://rogerweiss.ch/artworks/human-dilatations-3/ My point in responding to the Monica, was essentially because she jumped to a negative conclusion as if it were truth, when it is only an assumption. sailorweasel - That is your opinion and the artist has NO need to adhere to it. It is THEIR project, not yours. If you feel it should have more body diversity, create your own photographs. People on the internet are so used to demanding things rather than creating it for themselves... What is wrong with showing thighs and ass. It is part of our bodies... the fact that you think it's inappropriate to even show them or that it automatically means the photographer is trying to get people to ogle them says a lot more about you than the artist.
With art, there is definitely always a personal preference. Personally, I enjoy drawing the female body way more than a male body and I'm a woman. Does that mean I'm objectifying women? There is always a preference and something that is more pleasing to one's eye. If this photographer's preference was to photograph women, then so be it. It does not mean the intent was to objectify. Art does not have to be so darn balanced or "fair"... are you essentially saying that he should include both men and women in the photographs? Why? To please others? Then it would no longer be the creative project he/she felt like doing. Sometimes I feel like political correctness is ruining creativity because everyone is walking on egg shells and trying not to offend others. Let people explore their own creativity their own way... if you dont like it, so be it, but don't inject words into the artist's intent when you have no idea where that creativity stemmed from.
The response beginning with "With art, there is definitely always..." was directed at Matthew! Forgot to include his name, apologies.
More like distortion rather than perpective..
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.
It's definitely interesting, but I wish there was a bit more variation in what angle the shots were taken... A lot of legs.. I mean when I was scrolling through the photos I was kind of expecting to see all kinds of different angles but the further I got, the more of "the same" I saw.. Now I keep wondering what it looks like from those other angles I had in mind..
I'm not sure. I've worked on a project exploring beauty, with other photogs, this seems like more of an exploration of a wide angle lens.
bullshit 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 bullshit.
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.
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.
very cool
I like it. I am bored with the same sexual poses. This is organic, different.
I dunno about this so called art. I just know that these pics doesn't look comfortable to me.
It's hard to believe that these same girls could look so sexy in a regular photo session, and yet they are humans after all.
It's dumb that this is mature content. It would be different if it was like all sexy n stuff but it's just art ppls.
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.
What's with all the little yellow dots?
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.
I am no expert but I thought most of these photographs were awful!
Different perspectives are always interesting, maybe things aren't always what they seem.
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.
ugh. repulsive.
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
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.