This is simply a great image. It's a photoshop manip and based on other images by Hellene Popodopolous, and judging from Hellene's other work on Exquisite Slave, the theme is very much black women dominating white women in slavery-type situations. Which does not interest me, one way of the other.
When I first saw the image, I thought the reason I liked it was that it was just so well done. I thought it was a photo the first time I saw it, it fooled me. It looked like an SLR camera photo with a very narrow depth of field, so that the figures in the foregrouns are sharp and clean and the ones in the background are blurry. In fact the background photo that these images are pasted into was probably taken with an SLR, otherwise the creator had to somehow paste in that sharply focused pile of rocks and wooden stick to match the sharp focus of the figures in the foreground.
But if you take a good look at Nekkid Amy's toes (and I know that some of you will) you'll see that her left foot just isn't right.It shows evidence of being carelessly blurred when everything else in the same focal plane is sharp and clear.
It did take me a long time to notice that, and I didn't really understand the picture's real impact for a while. The thing about the image is, it's so prosaic. It presents an everyday street scene convincingly. It's not dramatic, it's not a bright sunny day or the dark of night. It's just an rainy, overcast day. Nobody is paying attention to the naked woman on the leash and the black woman looking great in drag who holds her leash. It creates an alternate world where sights like this are normal, everyday, routine.
It's a convincing image from an alternate world where beautiful naked sex slaves are delivered via Federal Express. It implies a world where sex slavery is routine, normal and fun. It's a subversive image that appears to be merely pornographic at first glance.
In a previous post I talked about the way pornographic images on the Web have quietly but very effectively given the lie to mainstream media's claims about what's sexy, shocking, wild and raunchy, simply by presenting uncensored images of actual sex. The images persuade people without the aid of text or even context. Whenever most people see a mainstream image that's supposed to be sexually wild their subconscious minds are aware that's a lie because almost everyone has seen hard core porn, and male people have generally seen a LOT of hardcore porn, thought few will admit to it.
Same here, really. Images like the one here demonstrate that a different sort of world is possible.
As do many of my stories. Game knows game!
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