In a message dated 11/28/2005 10:19:04 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A bowl of fruit is already an object. You can't objectify it, you can > merely portray it as an object. > > People are more than their physical selves. If you choose to > photograph or otherwise portray them in such a way that nothing more > is communicated about them than their bodies, if you ignore or choose > not to tell us something of their personality, their "soul", their > "spirit", then you objectify them. > > I'm not saying that objectification is necessarily bad; but that in > my mind is what it's about. ========== Very good summation, frank.
Marnie aka Doe Sometimes that lawyerly part of you is useful. ;-)
