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Alex Hughes
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Current Residence: Denver, CO

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Budos Band, The Shins, Postal Service, Inara George, Amon Tobin
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Philosophy, Photography, Music (Playing/Listening)
I put this little manifesto up on my flickr profile... I am a collector... which is to say, a member of a category which is the subject of some controversy. I have to admit, I don't get the controversy. My collecting has, as far as I can tell, no impact whatsoever on the production and consumption of photography. If it has no impact, then it is has no harmful impact. [Note that at Deviantart, faving has an impact -- it raises the profile of the faved photo.  This can be expected to be a good thing for the producer of the photo.  On the other hand, if crap gets faved, then crap builds up in photostreams ranked by most faves... Luckily, I don
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Pose as Subject

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There are two things that I like in photographs: (i) features of pictured subject and (ii) features of the picturing of the subject.  A photograph must be good with respect to both of these things to satisfy my taste. Let me say a little about the first thing -- the quality a photograph might take from the features of the pictured subject.  At first, one thinks: things (broadly construed to include persons) can be interesting to look at (generally this is, for me, a matter beauty).  The job of a photograph is picture the interesting thing, thereby making it available for appreciation.  One imagines that the thing possesses its interesting fe
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Dudes.  I love a nude as much as the next guy, but browsing the people and portraits has become a task that involves wading through great heaps of pornographic crap.  Don't get me wrong: porn can be pretty cool.  But I want to see _good_ photography. Perhaps it is easy to confuse pornographic and artistic nudes... Lord knows, it is hard to cook up a theoretical explanation of the difference between the two kinds of nude.  But then again nearly any interesting difference is hard to explicitly account for.  But I think that it is especially easy to confuse pornographic and non-pornographic nude photography. This is for the simple reason that
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Many thanks again for the :+fav:ing, Alex  !
:+fav:thanks so much :+fav:
sorry for the late reply, I have to be busy very much....4th Of July Hearts
thank you for the fave ad as always :D
As always: thank you for the excellent image!