Nakedly Naked… and "recognizably prurient"

NY Times Lens Blog post about Weegee’s Naked Hollywood Exhibition:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/weegees-other-naked-city/

Brief excerpt:

Weegee’s Other Naked City
By David Dunlap
December 16, 2011

…Weegee may thus have some relevant [and prurient] lessons to offer artists, photographers and [prurient] museum-goers today.”
They are:
• Look all around, notice everything [pruriently]. “Often, this can be achieved by actually walking all around the subject, whatever it is, looking at it from every possible [prurient] perspective,” Weegee said.
• Think serially [pruriently]. “Think about a particular subject, theme or action, or even a piece of architecture that you might be [pruriently] interested in,” Weegee suggested. “Whenever you see another example, [pruriently] shoot it.”
• Photography is a [prurient] distortion. “I had to have a lens out of this [prurient] world to do full justice to the strange sights and [prurient] people which is Hollywood,” Weegee wrote.

Continuing the [prurient] tradition of advice, tips and tricks from Weegee and filling our little [prurient] electronic filing cabinet with [prurient] blog posts about a [prurient] blog post about a [prurient] blog post…

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