The highlight of the strip show

This picture got good critics in Sweden, but what do you think?

It's a very well composed picture. I don't know if the angle from which the picture is taken in relation to the stripper and the two kids was intended, but it adds socio-cultural baggage to the picture and should make for interesting discussion in the USA. You could burn her body for a couple more seconds but this may be nit-picking.

Great image, Great composition.

Great folder as well!

All photographs very interesting, and tell great stories.

I'd love to see more of the strip show, all aside, these two images are your best...

God grab, great angle!

Nice b/w. Nice story. Cool!

Love it, and the way you can still see the expressions of the first row spectators. Wonder if you have another picture with the focus on them, instead of the stripper, to enhance that aspect of the story. It makes a good pair with the other photo at the show (the resting stripper). This centered on the publoic, the other on the stripper herself. Nice eye.

Magnus, I like this photo more than the other "stripper" photo in your folder. This is very funny, to start, but also, the longer you look at it, you realize how sad it really is for all involved. Even the choice of grainy film adds to statement this photo makes about the underbelly (no pun intended) of selling sex. Great job.

The photo is very interesting and the composition is superb. I think the highlight of this photo is its originality. I've seen plenty of nude photos (I know how that sounds) and photos of strippers but never one from the strippers perspective. Well Done!

You missed the picture. Instead of the gyrating woman, focus on the expressions of the patrons, framed by the legs. Applause for getting close, though.

In the moment I took the picture I was thinking of giving the public a bit of anonymousity.

I saw this one a few weeks ago and it is still striking. I love how no one in the photo seems to know they are being captured on film. It's like the little angel on the shoulder viewpoint. A perfect captured moment. Nice depth of field too.

WHAT? what the hell is going on in this photo/? this could be in no other country than the United States of America.

very interesting concept...but a tighter crop might be more effective.

>WHAT? what the hell is going on in this photo/? this could be in no other country than the United States of America.

 

This is Sweden. The most liberal country in the world.

 

Great perspective! I think composing so her head is missing was perfect, it immediately sends your attention to the crowd. Of course, as mentioned above, having decided on the crowd as the subject they probably should have been the sharpest area in focus. But the whole idea works none the less.

 

And finally, in regards to the comment by Stephane Johnson, he really got me thinking. I mean are we in the US really stereotyped as having lots of cultural baggage? I always thought I was pretty liberal. But I have to admit one of my first thoughts was "Hmm, those guys watching sure look young".

 

Though now that I think about it, maybe that wasnt so much prudishness as envy at not having seen a stripper at 16?

 

Regards,

 

Great perspective

Impressive. And a good title too.

Anybody notice the guy on the left grabbing his crotch? This is an amazingly original photograph.

As beautiful as life can be ugly. The image is a strong social commentary.

This reminds me of a gig I played in a strip club, back when I was a drummer in a rock band, and they still had live entertainment in strip clubs. The band would set up backstage and faced the audience, so this photo is quite similar to the view I saw as I played. I quit the band after one day... not because I had philosophical conflicts... I just couldn't stand watching the faces in the audience.

It's a fabulous photograph, I can find no fault. I can only hope that you have an extensive portfolio of this work and that you are fabulously famous and rich (in some alternate universe, I suppose?)... t

To me, everything looks perfect in this very original and appealing shot. It's really an exceptional photo!

just great!! talkin` about angle.

 

I like position of men's hands, so very funny! A godam shot indeed!!

This shot is very thought provoking. Basic instincts flowing everywhere. For once, the men's face and expression captures more attention than the breasts and genitals of the nude lady. The general sexual tension arouund is very nicely captured. A single shot telling a big timeless story - excellent photo-journalistic shot.

This was the first photo I viewed after reading about the guidelines for excluding persons based on their pattern of ratings. I had to laugh, not at the photo, but because this photo--an incredibly telling documentary photo--could never place high in terms of aesthetics. It will thus never be among the Top Rated Photos, but its value is beyond price as a social commentary.

 

Why on earth do such social practices continue? Do they occur only in repressed cultures? (Is Sweden repressed?) Do they occur only in capitalist cultures? (I don't know. I never saw this in Cuba, Ecuador, or Mexico, but I have a hunch that something like it happens in those varied places.)

 

The only thing missing here that I would like to see is the woman's face. I remember seeing a similar photo from the other angle about eighteen years ago in a book (a feminist critique of such practices), with the caption: "This is hell, nor am I out of it."

 

If the stated purpose of Photo of the Week is to stimulate discussion, well, this ought to do it!

I don't know, it might be better to focus the crowd, but on the other hand focusing the striper lets the imagination work more on the expressions of the spectators. I'd also say that for TMAX3200 the develpment is excellent!

Great shot with a catchy subject!The kind of photography I like...