PL:
"Przesycone bolem pieszczoty sa tematem przewodnim serii "Gary i wynn" nowojorskiej fotografki Barbary Nitke. Nitke upublicznia tak intymna rzecz jak sesja pana i niewolnika, przekraczajac nawet bariere anonimowosci, podajac imiona swoich bohaterow. Wasaty Gary z nagim torsem, Pan, trzyma pejcz, wpatrujac sie intensywnie w plecy "wynna" (pisane mala litera by podkreslic submisywnosc). Jego przyciete przez kadr cialo nie jest calkiem nagie, widzimy kolczyk w sutku i nosie, lancuch zamkniety klodka dookola szyi oraz wytatuowany drut kolczasty wokol klatki piersiowej i przedramienia. O ile na przedramieniu tatuaz nie pozostawia zludzen co do tego ze przedstawia drut kolczasty, o tyle wzor na piersiach przywodzi na mysl kolczaste pnacze."
Zdjecia: Barbara Nitke, fotografka i dokumentalistka swiatka bdsm barbaranitke.com
Tekst: Alan Krell z ksiązki "Diabelski sznur. Drut kolczasty w kulturze i historii"
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ENG:
"Painful pleasures, are the very stuff of the New Yorkbased photographer Barbara Nitke’s Gary and wynn. We are witness to the playing out of a master/slave relationship, a most private of acts now made public, even down to the participants’ first names. The moustached Gary, the ‘master’, naked from the waist up and holding a whip, looks intently at the back of ‘wynn’ (printed in lower case in the title to signify his subservient role). Cropped by the margins of the photograph, wynn’s body and face are sites of adornment: the pierced nipple and nostril, the chain and lock around his neck, and the barbed wire tattoos on his chest and raised upper arm. In this remarkably intimate image, barbed wire is represented through representation – a tattoo: the one that spreads across wynn’s chest resembles a stylized, thorny stalk, while the other on the bulging muscle of his arm suggests a four-pronged single strand of ‘actual’ wire."
Pictures by Barbara Nithe, a photographer and documentalist of bdsm life barbaranitke.com
Text by Alan Krell from his book "The Devil's Rope. A cultural history of barbed wire"
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