In the
article “Body painting” published in PSA
Journal, author Ayman Lotfy describes how body painting has become a part
of photography in today’s age. Having tattoos,
or some kind of body paint on you usually expresses your life. Each different type of body paintings can
represent ones living style, and their behavior. Body painting used to be a creative art, but
now it is used in photography. It’s good
for photographers because the paint is already beautiful. With the correct lighting and darkening of a
studio, body art can truly become outstanding to an eye. One country who often uses body art with photography
is Egypt. In Cairo, they use these pictures
of these painted women or men to attract tourist. They hang up pictures all around the airport
for everyone to see. Now days photography
can be considered a fine art, just because of how well of body painting looks
on a photo.
After I read
this I was amazed how body paintings affected the photography industry. I also had no Idea Egypt still uses photos of
body paintings for tourism. I wonder if there
are still cultures that use body painting as a ritual of some sort, instead of
photography. I would for sure try this
out sometime. I may just have to go to
Egypt and check it out. When I look at
different photos of body art I wonder if any of the coolers represent anything or
have a meaning. I also asked myself has
anyone ever actually had their entire body painted and then walked in public. I think the answer would be yes. Body painting is a really cool thing to look
at because you can really see their life story in the painting.
what i didnt know was that egypt used cameras maybe thats stereotyping. I thought your artical was good. The only question i have for you is they take pictures and put them in airports so people can see. Why wouldnt you put it online, that would be the first place i would look at. Other then all of that good job.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that people paint there bodies a lot. I thought they just did it for fun, not to actually symbolize yourself. Body painting is a pretty good idea because you won't have a tattoo that stays on you forever unless you want to go through more pain to get it off. You also can just take off the paint easily by washing it out. This relates to my friends because I had a senior party for high school and they were getting body paint on them and I thought it was really cool. One question I have is where else can you get these body paintings other than Egypt?
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