Flutterby™! : Six on Sex

Went down to the "Six on Sex" exhibit at the studios of Mark I. Chester yesterday. Six photographers, Mark I. Chester, Michael Rosen, Charles Gatewood, Phyllis Christopher, David Steinberg and Michael Blue, displaying work ranging from skin suspension to rope bondage to couples looking into each other's eyes.

There's a certain style in erotic imagery that I first became aware of in the work of David Steinberg. I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but the effect is that of unselfconscious interaction of the participants in the sex act, with the camera. It's not posed, and yet it's not a messy photojournalistic kind of candid. Michael Rosen's Lust and Romance manages to capture it as well.

Anyway, we came away with a few intellectual "oh, that's a good picture" experiences, but no "wow, that was really hot".