That photo is the reason I came to your profile, it's amazing and really did draw me right in!
The fact that it's a self portrait makes me love it even more!
well, since nearly EVERY single image of you takes my breath away - and I AM particular in these matters - yes, this image is striking and yes, the image is a true moment of art.
it reminds me a bit of:
and while self-shot shows one form of nudity, another can sometimes be found in candid shots, but I agree, posed is very confining. I photographed nudes for a while - and portraits etc. (ran the darkroom at the local uni); came to the conclusion that strolling with a camera would produce better more authentic images, and since most folk aren't out in public nekked...well, there you are! and then again there YOU are, naked in semi-public, so in a sense that's a full circle - and why I think your suspension photos beat the hell out of the front page, time and time again.
Lol I know right?! Oh and I've been meaning to chime in on your blog. So I'm going to do so right now. The reason I like this picture so much is the same reason why I've liked just about every picture I've ever seen of you. You are just...sexy. And you ooze sexiness in everything you've done. Even in the earliest picture I ever saw of you wearing that giant blonde girl mask, you could easily tell that there was a hot chick underneath. And that's what attracts me to simple masked pictures of you, such as this one.
There was a friend of mine a while back, I knew him and his on-again/off again girlfriend pretty well and liked them both a lot. They had virtually grown up together, and had a sometimes-rocky relationship. I was driving into his city one day when he didn't answer his phone - totally out of character for him. I found out later he had drowned during the night before I arrived in the morning. They had fought the day before, and her last words to him were " I hate you", and then some. She was wrecked, thinking that he had died angry at her.
That wasn't the case (he and I had talked about their rocky relationship a fair bit and he was definitely not one to go away angry or hold a grudge) but just try to convince a grieving and devastated woman - or anyone in that situation, really - of that. It was the hardest conversation I've ever had in my life.
I know it's hard but you can't feel guilty about being mad at your dad before he passed. I'm sure he wouldn't want you to feel that way.
The fact that it's a self portrait makes me love it even more!