Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (photographer)

Artforum International | May 1, 1995| | Copyright

I have always been an enthusiast of erotic images - high or low, flirtatious or hardcore. I am one of those indefatigable libidinous gazers: people, pictures, books, films. Though I'm something of a naif - I blush, and am easily put out of countenance - I guess polemically I'm a libertarian, one who holds that looking is a feature of sexual license, and that images can't be made without desire of some kind. So you'd imagine that the photographer who could write, "What this country needs are more and better nudes," would be dear to my heart. Still, though I'd seen Paul ...

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