The result of photographer Lisa Byrne's long exposure of a couple having sex, is haunting ethereal images mapping out the intense moments of closeness and distance during sexual acts. It's actually quite amazing, (considering this is something I wouldn't ever do), to see the push and pull between the bodies and the energy in the air between them that you can't see.
The images don't attempt to describe the workings of the human body, rather, to share a thought for the inner body, the psychological body or sprit. In her own words, Byrne hints that the reasoning behind her method is to pursue "recognition of an internal state, through a persistence of exposure."
The bodies, ghostlike, light, delicate and translucent, seemingly emptied of their entrails, fluid and floating, are set against a dense blackness. vvv
This was something that I had seen for the first time ever. I had never even thought of and idea like this so therefore wouldn't have even though of what it would look like. But although my first judgements was that it was strange and slightly porno, I then realised that the movements of the body throughout sex do actually create an interestingly different movement to anything else in life, like walking/dancing. It was just out of the ordinary. I do think that this series looks very good as to what Lisa Byrne is trying to convey. I do think they have a sense of beautiful about them as sex can be a complete lovely, natural and pleasant thing whilst in love. The lighting is kept quite dramatic but this could also be to circumstances considering the pinhole cameras, which also makes me think of how using pinhole cameras with this subject is interesting. It would probably help the couple to be more relaxed as it wouldn't be a big camera pointing at them.
Either way, they are still relevant to what I am looking for, just not within dance. The body movements are interesting, just shown in a different way to the other posts and research I have looked at.
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This was actually the first image I saw of a long exposure of a couple having sex, I couldn't find the photographer name but it was found on Flickr under 'aqui-ali' with the image named 'Apres'. I found it quite strange when listening to the words, but the image is very different. You'd think you would see something un-neccessary but you don't, the long exposure causes everything to be a blur for however long the exposure time is for. Which actually means that you see the presence of two people without seeing all of them.
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