I've been asked to pose for Playboy.
The only person I did bondage for was Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually they would shoot four or five models every Saturday. He wouldn't pay for the regular pictures unless we did some bondage. So I did bondage shots to get paid for the other photos.
People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.
To be sexy, nudes need a little underwear.
For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaningful qualities.
Snap. Lady with dog. Lady on sofa half-naked. Snap. Naked lady. Lady next to dresser. Lady at window. Snap. Lady on balcony sunlight. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)
A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.
I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.
Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art.
It's so easy to pick up a camera, white balance, and shoot people having sex, but I don't think there's anything very interesting about it. You might get off, but that's it.
