Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 :-) > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 4 Jan 2019, at 10:33, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 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. > > < > https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/31655949187/in/dateposted-public/ > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus > > Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ > > Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >