it's not like I took the pictures or anything, I just wanted to share them with the group! However I also realize I didn't give my own impressions...I forgot. ), a couple are ok but the rest, not too good. 
BTW, Galaxina was a part the murdered Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratton, ie "Star 80," played in the movie of the same name. I would have said Barbarella, but Jane Fonda never wore silver lamé, plus I didn't know if people would remember it. Now Dorothy Stratton at 18, fresh from working at a Dairy Queen in Canada, could turn on every sexual come-hither look and pose in the book for the camera. On her it looked honest and natural. For example the six-inch black heels, bend-over photo would've suited Dorothy Stratton to her sexual self T. IMO, on Sasha it did not look sexy. As I said before, to me it looked contrived. JMO. Although I see elements of a skater's story as in the things you mentioned, such as warming up, going to ballet class, skating (of course we noticed she was wearing skates in a couple of the photos--jeez, Registered
). But I've known a lot of athletes and having been a dancer, I don't know anybody whose athletic day included warming up in six-inch black pumps in a pose I can't describe the way I'd really like to, at least not on the forum. Maybe if the first photo had been at the end, as in "personal time for the athlete on a day off" I'd buy the "story of the athlete" thing--which is not to say you and others might not be right. I just don't see it that way at all. No breasts or genitalia show and Kinski's expression seems almost bored. But to me it had truth. I didn't see truth in the sexual photos of Sasha here and that's what I didn't like. Just kidding--no doubt the top of her head woud be cut off in every shot.Rgirl said:Registered--On some things, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Though I think if you read my post again, I think we agree on several things. You make excellent points that there is no "child beauty pageant" look or overdone hair and make up. And as I said before I like well-done "hot babe" photos if they're right for the person being photographed. My point was that some of the photos seemed to be trying to force a kind of contrived sexuality on Sasha that is not natural to her, at least not yet. Sasha just turned 19 and has been focusing very hard on skating. Maybe in a year or so, with more maturity (it can come fast and furious in a young woman's early 20s) and especially if she is on the podium at Worlds, photos such as the six-inch black heels, bent over shot may indeed reveal a part of Sasha's true sexuality.
As for the "Lolita-chic" reference, I agree that there is nothing wrong with someone looking younger than their years expressing feelings commensurate with her true age. What I was trying to say is that I felt the photographer saw Sasha's face and size, which could pass for 14 or 15, and used it to imply an adolescent expressing sexuality beyond her years in SOME, not all of the photos. The thing I didn't like is that it didn't seem to me to convey an honest sexuality.
Finally, if you read my post again, I think you'll see that I have absolutely nothing against Sasha modeling. I never even brought it up. I'm having fun writing this post, but all that matters to those reading it is what I say and how well I say it. The problem I had was with some of the photos. As you'll see, I liked most of them and loved two of them. I just think the photographer failed in getting a sense of Sasha's true sexuality in the couple of photos where it was clear that's what he was going for. I think he fell back on clichés like the "hurt me, baby, hurt me" shoes and poses. I think of Richard Avedon's photo of Nastassia Kinski with the boa snake draped around her nude reclined body and how he got the shot just as the boa darted its tongue out as if to kiss her neck as being a great example of an exotic yet honest expression of the subject's sexuality--meaning Kinski, though perhaps the snake too
Granted, these distinctions are completely subjective and may seem subtle, but here we're discussing art, not sport. If Sorrenti had captured something that made me go, "Wow! Sasha, we never knew!" I'd be impressed.
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Rgirl said:I think of Richard Avedon's photo of Nastassia Kinski with the boa snake draped around her nude reclined body and how he got the shot just as the boa darted its tongue out as if to kiss her neck as being a great example of an exotic yet honest expression of the subject's sexuality--meaning Kinski, though perhaps the snake too
IDLERACER said:
If I didn't know who Sasha was, I'd guess she was 12 at the *most*. Also, it looks like her hair is falling out from being pulled back so severely so much.
). There's a lot of Sasha in them, with a little bit of the photographer's image of her. To me it looks like she's saying in those photos: I'm a woman; a skater; an athlete; my own person; inventive; original; bold; etc. And her sexuality, even if present, is not overwhelming or exploited. I don't see anything Lolita-like about it -- because to me it seems like she is in charge. Actually this is the first time I can see a woman in her. Not a 16-year-oldish cute girl, which is what most of the photographers went for in the old photos I've seen of her. Not to mention the pics for "Seventeen", which were just a disaster, IMO.As a person with a light complexion I've always been amazed by this.serenity said:
Why do people think that we all need to look tanned? You know, some of us don't even tan; we burn. You feel like your skin is on fire; it's hot, and it hurts for days. I think I even took a painkiller this summer after I accidentally got a "tan." Personally I like the shade of my skin, and I don't understand why some people have a problem with it. Is Nicole Kidman in need of a tan? I think she looks great. 
