Adding more.

 So originally I was only going to use women in this project as it is more apparent that they are being dehumanised.

However I have decided to include a male model in the next part of my project but not quite in the same way, the first idea with the women was to ask weather people consider the underwear shoots to be dehumanising women and making them become objects of sex.
This phrase 'objects of sex' is what I am going to expand on.

Bondage - The state of being a slave

Sadism - The tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification from inflicting pain, suffering or humiliation on others

Masochism - The tendency to derive sexual gratification from ones own pain or humiliation

This area of sex is completely based around the dehumanisation or sexual objectification of both men and women.

A great example of this would be gimp masks or suits, so the whole idea of this is to basically depersonalise yourself, it almost removes your person from the act and it just becomes a human shaped rubber or leather object of sex.

This is just a deeper look into the realms of .. Sexual objectification vs Art

Alex Poirier

I decided to use myself as research as well because I don't think anyone that i have found so far really is completely similar to my style.

I have decided to show a few photos of my Barcelona series that show the same style I am applying to this project.

Ricky Adam

Ricky Adam was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland in 1974.

Ricky has been involved in the D.I.Y. punk community for many years & has been Co. Editor/Photographer for 'DIG BMX’ magazine for over 20 years.

He has spent ‘X’ amount of years playing in bands & traveling all over the world taking photographs. 

Ricky is rarely without a camera and over the years has built up a unique series of photographs.  

"The way I work is kinda haphazard and often out of compulsion. I tend to only photograph things that genuinely interest me. I’ve found that’s the way to get the best results." - Ricky Adam

His work has been featured in many worldwide publications/record labels, some of which include: DIG BMX magazine, The Independent, Juxtapoz, Obey, Maximum Rock N’Roll, British Journal of Photography, Upper Playground, Hamburger Eyes, Dischord Records, Burning Heart Records.

His work has also been exhibited in art shows throughout the world. 

In 2012 Ricky published his first book aptly named: ‘Destroying Everything ...Seems Like The Only Option’ which chronicles his time spent rolling around in the punk & BMX scene.

Relation to my work - I chose the work of Ricky because of his photographic style rather than his photographic content. He has a black and white style that is fairly high contrasted just like mine are. 

Herb Ritts

Herbert "Herb" Ritts (August 13, 1952 – December 26, 2002) was an American photographer who concentrated mainly on black and white fashion photography and portraits.

Born in Los Angeles, to a jewish family, Ritts began his career working in the family furniture business. He moved to attend Bard College in New York, where he majored in economics and art history. Later, while living in Los Angeles, he became interested in photography when he and friend Richard gere (then just an aspiring actor) decided to shoot some photographs. The picture gained Ritts some coverage and he began to be more serious about photography.

Herb Ritts had his major photographic career in the late seventies, eighties and nineties.

he gained his reputation in art and commercial photography then going more into fashion in the late eighties and nighties doing work for the likes of vogue, vanity fair, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Ralph Lauren etc.. 

Herb was known for his clean lines and strong forms giving the images a simplicity that allowed the images to be read and felt instantaneously.
He also produced work that often challenged conventional notions of gender or race.

I feel he has a certain relation to my work firstly because of the black and white style and also because of the clean cut image that is easy to read and see what it is. Also the subject matter obviously of women. 

I personally am not gay but I feel that Herb being a gay photographer taking pictures of naked women or women in underwear is an important part of the argument. He was obviously not attracted to women in a sexual way but took these images as art and an appreciation of a woman form.

Alex Majoli

Alex Majoli (born 1971) is an Italian photographer associated with Magnum Photos known for his documentation of war and conflict.

At the age of 15, Alex Majoli joined the F45 Studio in Ravenna, working alongside Daniele Casadio. While studying at the Art Institute in Ravenna, he joined Grazia Neri Agency and traveled to Yugoslavia to document the conflict. He returned many times over the next few years, covering all major events in Kosovo and Albania.

Majoli graduated from art school in 1991. Three years later, he made an intimate portrayal of the closing of an asylum for the insane on the island of Leros, Greece, a project that became the subject of his first book, Leros.

In 1995 Majoli went to South America for several months, photographing a variety of subjects for his ongoing personal project, 'Requiem in Samba'. He started the project 'Hotel Marinum' in 1998, on life in harbour cities around the world, the final goal of which was to perform a theatrical multimedia show. That same year he began making a series of short films and documentaries.

After becoming a full member of Magnum Photos in 2001, Majoli covered the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and two years later the invasion of Iraq. He continues to document various conflicts worldwide for Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, Granta and National Geographic.

Relation to my work - Again I chose Alex because of the photographic style rather than the content.
His photographs are very high contrasted just like mine and how I like to take black and white photographs

Guy Bourdin

Guy Bourdin (2 December 1928, Paris – 29 March 1991, Paris), born Guy Louis Banarès, was a French fashion photographer known for his provocative fashion images. 

"At the heart of Guy Bourdin’s fashion photographs is a confrontation with the very nature of commercial image making. While conventional fashion images make beauty and clothing their central elements, Bourdin’s photographs offer a radical alternative."

Guy Bourdin is very important for this project as he basically has had a lot of stick saying he objectifies women in his photography 

His first fashion shots were published in the February 1955 issue of Vogue Paris. A contemporary of Helmut Newton, they both worked extensively for Vogue and greatly influenced in different ways what would become contemporary photography.

 "Between him and me the magazine became pretty irresistible in many ways and we complemented each other. If he had been alone or I had been alone it wouldn't have worked." He continued to work for the magazine until 1987.

Since his death, Bourdin has been hailed as one of the greatest fashion photographers of all time.

Because Bourdin's models "often appeared dead or injured", some critics have accused him of objectifying women. His photographs were described as "highly controlled" and "famous for a mysterious sense of danger and sex, of the fearsome but desirable, of the taboo and the surreal"

Relation to my work - obviously there is the link with women and wether the images are objectification or not, I feel that the controversy in Guys work is a lot more than in mine at the moment but would like to try and do some images in his kind of style.

David Bailey

David Royston Bailey, CBE (born 2 January 1938) is an English fashion and portrait photographer

In 1959, Bailey became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, and in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Coles studio before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue later that year.

He also undertook a large amount of freelance work.

He spent the 60s shooting celebrities etc.. and basically worked his way up doing that to create his own celebrity status, becoming one of the first real celebrity photographers

At Vogue within months he was shooting covers and, at the height of his productivity, he shot 800 pages of Vogue editorial in one year. Penelope Tree, a former girlfriend, described him as "the king lion on the Savannah: incredibly attractive, with a dangerous vibe. He was the electricity, the brightest, most powerful, most talented, most energetic force at the magazine".

Relation to my work - A lot of david Baileys images are similar to mine in the style, the high contrast and black and white and obviously the fashion area of photography is what I am focusing on for this project.