Should this photo be allowed in a yearbook?

@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

It isn't her ass, it's her left knee....

Can't tell if you're joking or not.

However, in general the act of placing a left knee up a step or two does not force the entire pelvic area to tilt backwards like that.

If she continues to tilt her hips in this way, she's going to need rolfing.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

Ya know David, your love life sounds much like my own.

I hope u were luckier than I was.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

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@boomerang,

Maybe I'm alone here, but outside of being a bit ridiculous, I don't see it as particularly provocative or in any way sexy. I can see that she is trying for a certain look by twisting her body that way, but I think she failed. Not the best yearbook photo, but I wouldn't ban it.

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@engineer,

You're not alone.

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@engineer,

engineer wrote:

Maybe I'm alone here, but outside of being a bit ridiculous,
I don't see it as particularly provocative or in any way sexy.
I can see that she is trying for a certain look by twisting her body
that way, but I think she failed. Not the best yearbook photo,
but I wouldn't ban it.

Yeah, I was gonna ask what (allegedly) she was trying to provoke.

David

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http://www.durangoherald.com/storyimage/DU/20120105/NEWS01/701059949/AR/AR-701059949.jpg&ExactW=620

Durango High School senior Sydney Spies, center, and her mother, Miki Spies,
protest the elimination of Sydney Spies senior portrait from the school’s
yearbook. At left is 2011 DHS graduate Alayna Woomer.

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@hawkeye10,

Oh for heaven's sake.

Nobody is saying that women shouldn't be sexual, we're discussing whether the photo is okay for a high school yearbook.

Nobody even suggested that the photographer was a male. It wasn't until I pinpointed what it was that was bothering me about the photo -- that she was wearing a scarf instead of a shirt, and wearing it in a way that nobody wears a scarf even if they wear it as a shirt -- that made me question the photographer at all.

There's a time and a place for everything and discussing the placement of an image doesn't mean that we're trying to suppress anything.

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@OmSigDAVID,

It's the way her knee is rotated perpendicular to her body.

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@George,

Thanks, George.

The school didn't say that she couldn't use the photo, just that she couldn't use it in the regular portrait section of the yearbook. If they give her free "senior ad" space to use the photo I can't see what her complaint would be as they certainly wouldn't be stifling her free expression.

I imagine that next year the school will have a long list of standards that will have to be met for yearbook photos thereby getting rid of the opportunity for anyone else to exercise their free expression.

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Well, I guess that family can use the money by putting it in the ad section.

Look at the way the poor mother is forced to wear ripped jeans.

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

The school didn't say that she couldn't use the photo

the school didn't say anything - it was the student editors

the staff advisor actually commented that she wouldn't have been comfortable making the decision to not allow the photo

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

The school didn't say that she couldn't use the photo, just that she couldn't use it in the regular portrait section of the yearbook. If they give her free "senior ad" space to use the photo I can't see what her complaint would be as they certainly wouldn't be stifling her free expression.

Quote:

[...]“The administration really had nothing to do with it,” said Tevan Trujillo, a student yearbook editor. “It was us.”
[...]
The editors – Trujillo, Erin Edblom, Paige Shacklett, Alyssa Spencer and Brian Jaramillo – said they unanimously came to the decision not to run her submitted photo as a senior portrait.

They said the picture could still run in a section reserved for paid senior advertisements. Those ads usually feature “shout-outs” from friends and family and are located at the back of the yearbook.

Two years ago, yearbook staff made a similar decision when a male student wanted to run a picture of himself bare-chested as a portrait.
[...]
The editors said their decision was not because of dress code.

“We are an award-winning yearbook. We don’t want to diminish the quality with something that can be seen as unprofessional,” Jaramillo said.
[...]
Yearbook adviser Tammy Schreiner said the decision was the students’ alone.

“I can tell the kids all of the things that will happen if they run it and all of the things that will happen if we don’t run it,” Schreiner said. “But I know that if I personally pulled it, I would be as guilty of censorship as anyone else.”
...

Source: Durango Herald

Even 43 years, when I'd left school, there would have been some discussions about the photo, but it certainly could have been printed. (And I don't get what the parents have to do with it.)

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@George,

I think the girl looks a lot cuter and livlier and more attractive in the protest photo than she does in that awkward, contorted, contrived, allegedly sexy shot.

Maybe the whole thing was a publicity stunt which is why momma approved of it.

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@boomerang,

i don't think so

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@firefly,

firefly wrote:

I think the girl looks a lot cuter and livlier and more attractive in the protest photo
than she does in that awkward, contorted, contrived, allegedly sexy shot.

Maybe the whole thing was a publicity stunt which is why momma approved of it.

I find it surprizing that anyone is going
to be controled by his or her parents when he or she is graduating from high school.

I can see where thay 'd be INFLUENTIAL.

David

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

It's the way her knee is rotated perpendicular to her body.

I believe that I understand your meaning.
I was never much into art.

David

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

Thanks, George.

The school didn't say that she couldn't use the photo, just that she couldn't use it in the regular portrait section of the yearbook.
If they give her free "senior ad" space to use the photo I can't see what her complaint would be as they certainly wouldn't be stifling her free expression.

Yes; that 's a very valuable point to this discussion.

boomerang wrote:

I imagine that next year the school will have a long list of standards that will have to be met for yearbook photos thereby getting rid of the opportunity for anyone else to exercise their free expression.

That 's a good way to put it.

David

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Has anyone straighten the photo to see what it really looks like? You can tell by the rails on the stairs that she is really bent over leaning forward on the stairs and the photographer rotated it to make her appear somewhat upright.

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Gotta be honest...when I first saw the picture, I didn't realize the top was a top! I thought it was a photoshop blacking out...and that she posed topless originally.

Anyway, as many a producer in Hollywood prays, "Please God, make the Vatican ban my movie. I really need the ticket sales!"

Much ado about nothing...and mission accomplished both come to mind.

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Should this photo be allowed in a yearbook?

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