
Originally Posted by
pinkunicorn
I agree. I think the reason the photographer found these pictures beautiful was because she got to know the model. I think if she would have shown the model's face and the life in her eyes, and showed her as a whole being--beautifully posed of course--then the photographer's audience might have been able to see this model as she saw this model.
But a collection of pictures that are just parts of a whole? No. It doesn't matter what the age of the model, it's just a bunch of body parts. There's no human connection there, and the human connection is what makes it beautiful.
I remember a picture that once came across my Facebook page, a woman whose appearance was not unlike the woman in these photos. Then I read her story. She lived in Poland during World War II and risked her life to help people flee from Hitler's concentration camps. She was responsible for countless people who otherwise would have perished fleeing to safety in other countries, many eventually coming to America. After reading the story I saw this woman in a completely different light, and she looked different to me, even physically.
Most people don't see complete strangers as beautiful in the sense that the human soul and spirit is beautiful. You have to know more about them than what their skin looks like.
Like Abraham Lincoln once said, "You can't believe everything you read on the Internet."