David Schonauer
STASH Wednesday November 16, 2016
It’s all about science, starting with biology: On average, men take five minutes to orgasm during sex, while women take 18. That is the orgasm gap. Next comes
chemistry, in the form of a spray designed to delay male orgasm. The name of this spray is Promescent, and the job of advertising the product fell to director Tim Ruffle and Aardman Animation. How do you sell an O-delay spray? With plenty of wit, wisdom, and cheeky vignettes all rendered in a confectioner’s palette,
notes Stash. Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Tuesday February 10, 2015
A while ago we spotlighted the book Orgasm by photographer Linda Troeller and
scholar and artist Marion Schneider, who documented women’s feelings about orgasm. (BTW: They have a book signing and discussion tomorrow night at the Bluestockings book store in NYC.) Now Feature Shoot looks at the celebrated French
photographer Bettina Rheims’s series “Just Like a Woman,” in which models dramatize the moment of orgasm. Rheims observed
the height of female pleasure from a vantage point directly over her subjects. Read the full Story >>
Daylight Monday October 20, 2014
New York-based photographer Linda Troeller and ethnographer Marion Schneider have teamed for another groundbreaking look at human sexuality with the book Orgasm: Photographs and Interviews. A
follow-up to their 1998 book The Erotic Lives of Women, the new book focuses on 25 women of different ages, nationalities, and cultural and social backgrounds, who were each asked not only to
define what orgasms meant to them, but also to remember their first orgasms and to reenact them for Troeller’s camera. The intimacy of the subject matter required that Troeller and Schneider
create an extremely safe environment for their subjects, notes the photographer. The work will be featured at the Barrister’s Gallery in New Orleans and elsewhere. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Wednesday May 27, 2015
The photographs in Polly Brown’s new book, Little Deaths, show mundane sights—a rumpled sofa, an office chair, a train seat, objects from a photo darkroom. Their significance lies
elsewhere: Brown photographed spots where people had experienced what she describes at the Huffington Post as “a little self-induced sexual relief.” Brown solicited the locations from her
friends, setting up an email account to allow them to submit spots where they experienced their orgasms anonymously. Read the full Story >>
Salon Tuesday August 28, 2012
While we’re on the subject of sex and art: Salon features an interview with photographer Clayton Cubitt, whose fascinating new video series, “Hysterical Literature,” features
performers reading from texts (such as Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”) while having orgasms. The performers are seated at a table, under which, reveals Cubitt, an
assistant is equipped with … a massager. “I’ve long been fascinated with the concept of control and authenticity in portraiture, especially in these modern times of personal
branding,” says Cubitt. Read the full Story >>
Salon Friday September 28, 2012
Last month, our sister newsletter, Pro Photo Daily, took note of
new work by artist Clayton Cubitt, who has been making videos of women reading aloud from famous books … while having orgasms. Obviously, this is a subject that needs further review:
Cubitt’s video series “Hysterical Literature” is now available on YouTube. One performer, Alicia, reads from
“Leaves of Grass,” while another, Stoya, reads from “Necrophilia Variations,” as an assistant works a
massager. Cubitt tells Salon the series is about “control and authenticity in portraiture.” Thoughts? Read the full Story >>
Some Came Running Tuesday June 4, 2013
They don’t make film orgasms like they used to. But then again, did they ever? The Some Came Running blog offers an appraisal of state-of-the-art climaxing in film—bearing in mind that
we are not necessarily talking about porn, though porn sex must and does enter the conversation. The topic is in the news because of the Cannes Palmes d’Or-winning-film Blue is the Warmest
Color, which features explicit sex scenes. Does it represent a breakthrough in the history of film orgasms? “Next to race, the depiction of sexuality on screen is about the most fraught
thing ever, and right now it is as fraught as it ever has been,” declares SCR. (See item 2.) Share your favorite cinematic orgasm at MAP’s Facebook page. Read the full Story >>
art scene today Friday March 27, 2015
Here’s a brand spanking new art competition: Art Scene Today, an online gallery that also conducts competitions for emerging artists, is calling for entries for its winter contest, the theme of
which is “50 Shades of Grey.” Visual artists of all kinds are invited to offer their interpretations of the erotic novel and film. All entries are featured on the website’s home page
throughout the competition, and the winner gets an Art Scene Today-designed website for a year. The judge for the competition is photographer Linda
Troeller, whose widely-praised sex-positive book Orgasm: Photographs & Interviews has been featured previously at PPD. The deadline for entries is April 15. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday August 5, 2015
Artists will never stop dealing with human sexuality. Herewith we gather together a number of features from the past few months showing how photographers are exploring modern sex and eroticism, from
the faces of orgasm to the spaces where people have self-sex in public. There's an Instagram account documenting vaginas hiding in plain sight and a new magazine (French, naturally) that presents an
alternative … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday December 16, 2014
Installation view of Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, The Museum of Modern Art,
October 4, 2014–January 18, 2015. © 2014 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Thomas Griesel. All works by Robert Gober © 2014 Robert Gober.
Talks & Discussions Tuesday, December 16 The Artist
Dialogue Series presents, 6 pm: The Heart Is Not A Metaphor: Robert Gober in conversation with Ann Temkin. South Court Auditorium, The New York Public … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday May 31, 2016
When the 19-year-old model appeared at his Hollywood bungalow, it was, wrote the photographer Andre de Dienes, as if "a miracle had happened." It was his first meeting with the young woman who would
become Marilyn Monroe. In 1945, de Dienes became the first professional photographer to shoot Norma Jeane Baker and one of her first lovers; over the next eight years he continued … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 10, 2014
Special Events Saturday, December 13 Symposium, 10 am-4
pm: What’s Love Got to Do With It | with dance and theatre educator Jessica Berson, poet Andrew Durbin,
photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists Gerard & Kelly, and performance artist Jacolby Satterwhite. Moderated by Johanna Burton, Keith
Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday February 10, 2015
Art Fairs & Special Events Through
Wednesday, February 11 Codex Foundation Book Fair. Craneway Pavilion, 1414 Harbourway South, Richmond, CA. Information. Wednesday, February 11-Friday, February
14 103rd Annual College Art Association Conference. Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, February 12-Friday, February 13 The New School Center for
Public Scholarship presents, Fear of Art, with video keynote by … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 29, 2015
Special Events Thursday, October 1-Saturday, October 31 Archtober | Architecture and Design Month New York City
2015. Various Locations. Information. Calendar. Thursday, October 1-Sunday, October 4 Texas Contemporary. George R. Brown Convention Center, Avenida De Las
Americas, Houston, TX. Information. Friday, October 2-Sunday, October 4
Designers & Books Fair 2015. Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), John E. Reeves Great Hall and … Read the full Story >>
