When does nude (particularly of women) Fine Art photography cross the line into pornography?
There are many different visual features between nude Fine Art photography and pornography. But sometimes the features get across to each other and to define the status of the photo is a rather subjective matter. The purpose of pornography is to provoke sexual impulse, so it tends to be more explicit, and also the women chosen for pornography are well made-up so to be more sexy. While nude fine art photography is only one small genre or form in fine art. As all the other forms of art, artists in nude photography celebrate their skills in composition and lighting, aesthetic judgments and visual creativity etc. The model may be old, young, male or female. You have to say human body is one kind of the most beautiful objects in the natural world (to mankind’s eye and mind of course). But the concept about what is art is fast changing and broadening. And so there may not be fixed features and ideas to separate the two in the future; even now it is often a hard thing to figure out since many
