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Lust to Love
by Christian Klinger
Photographing lust is easy. Trying to photograph love, on the other hand, is like trying to pin a wave on the sand, but it's one of the most diverting and vexing problems for photographers. The pages of Nerve are filled with the efforts of those who have tried: Susan Egan, Helena Kvarnstrom, Philippe Guillaume, Joe Schmelzer and Siege (a.k.a. Clayton James Cubitt), to name a few. How could one resist? It's like photographing New York. It's impossible to capture the essence of the city, but it's also irresistible to artists to try, and you see photographers all over the city almost everywhere you go. In Scanner a few weeks ago, we ran this quote from Mike Nichols, about his movie, Closer: "To stare directly at [sex] is to waste most of what's available in drama and in film." It's true — staring at sex does cause one miss the story. But what about staring at love, and trying to take its picture? What about approaching it matter-of-factly, like a flower or a torso? A straight-up still life, old-school style. This is Christian Klinger's methodology. So what of the result? Is this what we talk about when we talk about love?
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