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Subject: [Leica] [OM] Ancient Sicilian Greek pottery
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:49:30 +0530
References: <da921c7c-917b-fe63-f35f-e66da9b5111c@gmail.com> <D1536D99-1070-4D1B-9DBA-E58ABFFFBD25@frozenlight.eu>

I blissfully give the Puritans a taste of nature working on the next
generation, now and then! Not that many acknowledge it.....

I wonder why we have been indoctrinated to view something so natural and
critical to any species as something shameful and full of guilt? A power
play by religion to control the great unwashed?

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:43 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> In a similar vein, I posted a photo of a 17th century painting from
> Valencia cathedral last week, with a very well-endowed Virgin Mary offering
> her breast (nipple and all) to baby Jesus. So far it has remained
> accessible, after about a week :-)
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> > On 4 Jan 2019, at 10:33, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > In Agrigento, site of an ancient Greek settlement in Sicily, we saw many
> examples of ancient pottery depicting domestic, religious and civic scenes
> from about 2400 years ago. Because of differences in attitudes towards
> display of the human body then vs. now, I was forced to add a modern
> fig-leaf to the version you can see here on flickr, lest I risk my entire
> body of work being deemed X-rated by some present-day Puritan.  For this, I
> apologize to both you and the ancient artist.
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at 
> N04/31655949187/in/dateposted-public/
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> > However, all is not lost. You can see the original, un-bowdlerized
> versions of the above, and nine more Grecian urns here:
> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/AgrigentoGreekPottery/>
> > Click on the images to see bigger, and on the double rectangle centered
> above the photos to see them full-size.
> >
> > Olympus E-M5 and Panasonic 40/1.7. We were rushed through the exhibit
> because we were behind schedule. Even so, I felt like the ancient artists
> were telling me something about life back then.  I hope you'll see it, too.
> >
> > --Peter
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