Ann Sanfedele wrote: >Three people I care about have serious weight problems, it's killing them, none of them are comfortable with having their picture taken. The all hate it. So I may have an extra reason for being disturbed by the picture.
I have felt much better once I knew Shel did not really hide the camera. Your issues with fat are your issues with fat. They are not mine. I am with Graywolf here, some people are jumping to the conclusion this woman is pathetic simply by her existence (of being fat), and therefore one shouldn't take her picture. I, personally, find all kinds of bodies interesting. Maybe because of the nude drawing I have done. There might be considered to be some editorializing with the camera, or there might not. OTOH, it's just a picture of a woman clutching a coke in a fast food joint, if you remove your own emotional content. A pose, I am sure, many of us have been in (clutching a drink or a hamburger in a fast food joint.) I fail to see why she should have any more a flattering candid picture taken than anyone else who is captured by someone doing "street photography." More flattering a picture than someone would take of me in the same situation, for instance. Why should she have special status? Because she's "pathetic?" I don't jump to that conclusion, sorry. Would it be okay for someone to take a candid of me smoking on the street? Would that picture be objectionable because lots have died indirectly from smoking? Life is life, it's not all flattering or attractive to others. Marnie aka Doe
