apologies, I dont mean to be a thread necromancer but just wanted to reply to madcat as I read an interview with this photographer the other day and just randomly stumbled on this thread now O.o
anyway this is the part of the interview where she talks about 'The Spanking' , interesting reading and might help to shed light on the thing you were wondering about!
"S.K. - In The Spanking, wide-open windows and an open door amplify inherent vulnerability. Would you speak further to the personal signifiers in this work and the challenges involved in making such a charged piece?
A.S. - The doorway with knob in foreground is about having an observer, in this case my mother, who plays the passive bystander. The jeans and underwear pulled down raise questions about my age at the time of being spanked. I was aware of those exposed body parts and, for myself, needed to explore this act from another point of view. We all make different choices in being parents, and at a certain point we must realize that it all comes from a loving place, hopefully. Why would my parents think there was anything wrong with this act? This is what they learned growing up. Things aren’t always as they seem. That is what I infer in most of my photographs from
Left Behind and
Pause.
The Spanking was a tough picture to arrange. This was sort of the beginning of going outside of my family to make certain photographs. As
Father and Son was the grounding photograph for the
Left Behind series,
Spanking was the grounding for the
Pause series. It was tough to find a girl just 18 who would allow herself to be in this position with a stranger and even more difficult to find a father figure who would allow his face to be shown and actually spank someone so hard over and over to get the right moment of impact that I was looking for. This photograph was made in this “father’s” own bedroom. It felt familiar enough to me."
the whole thing is here if you want to read it -
http://artpulsemagazine.com/prying-r...ela-strassheim
as I said, Dont want to be a necromancer and try to resurrect dead threads, just thought that someone, if not madcat himself, might be interested in this quote and the interview that it was taken from
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Angela Strassheim
