Thoughts about Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair Photo?

[Fibonacci]

Artists follow their vision, for no other reason than it's natural. when it comes to composition, style, content...it's difficult for a true artist to be a critic, we can only speak about what WE would do in situations, how WE would have done it or preferred it...and then, it would cease to become that individuals image if they followed critique.

A few years ago a book came out where some very clever people took a great number of images from several photo shoots to editors to see which they would pick. All of the images were taken by professionals working in the field. All were properly exposed and in focus. The question they wanted to resolve was, "Would each editor use his own 'personal vision' in choosing the images they would use in a story, or was something else at play?" As it turned out, and to no one's surprise, there were differences in the images the editors chose...but, what was shockingly apparent was that the differences were minuscule. In spite of the fact that each editor had hundreds of images to choose from they all choose nearly the exact same selection.

What can be learned from this? The lesson appears to be this: While we all have unique visions and we want to stay true to them, there are also truths that are universal among people everywhere. This should not surprise us, we see it in the other arts as well. We hear a song and know instantly that is going to be popular. No one knows exactly why, but we all know it to be true. Why should the same not be true of photography?

Photography is a unique language, the language of the eye, and some speak it better than others. I may not always be able to tell you why, but I can always tell you who is fluent and who is not.

[SNAPaPHOTO]

I am going to also say she is much too young for this pose. I would never want my daughter to pose anything like that. The media in general was picking up on the sexual tones of the picture and at age 15 she is too young.