On Monday, October 17, 2005, at 07:06 PM, Cotty wrote:
Sorry Butch, I'm not getting at you personally. I deplore censorship in any form.
This past weekend I conducted a two-day workshop in my studio. Most of the photographers were shooting digital, but some were shooting film. I had arranged with the local pro lab to provide processing, but at the last minute their C-41 machine broke down and couldn't be fixed on the weekend. I told the photographers to try the local Wal-Mart, which does pretty good quality and quickly. They processed the film but then refused to print the pictures because some of the shots showed our models bare-breasted. I was completely floored by this insanity! The photographers who shot film had to wait until they got home to get their negatives printed.
We're talking professional models over 21 years of age and fine art nude type images. I was demonstrating a variety of lighting setups, and wanted the photographers to look at their images as we progressed in the workshop.
There are not many things that I consider pure evil, but censorship is definitely one of them.
Some day I'll tell you guys about the time a printer refused to print one issue of a photo magazine I was working for because we had an article on nude photography in it. Talk about a bunch of small-minded idiots!
Bob
