Lamprou's intimately explicit portrait is a very different kind of photograph than, say, the formally driven Teutonic female nudes of Helmet Newton, the hardcore imagery of Robert Mapplethorpe or the garish art-porn of Araki.
Controversy looks set to be provided by Lars Von Trier's Dogville and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers, a sexually explicit portrait of a menage-a-trois in late 60s Paris.
It's hardly the most pointed or explicit portrait of the gay rights crusade put to film, nor the toughest evocation of working-class heroism; yet, with much credit to a lively, never-condescending ensemble, its human interests meet brightly in the middle.
The Director's prize went to the Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas for his very strange film Post Tenebras Lux, a sexually explicit portrait of a stagnant marriage which contained some characteristic shock-tactic grenades lobbed into the cinema auditorium, and an ending which had delegates clutching their heads with bewilderment, exasperation, amusement, invigoration, you name it.
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In June Mr. Waters was a curator, with Dian Hanson, of an exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery of sexually explicit portraits of ex-cons, hustlers and other men by the vintage pornography photographer David Hurles, whose nom-de-porn is Old Reliable.
(Scott) 'THE DISTRICT' (No rating, 1 28, in Hungarian) This Hungarian animated feature is a sexually explicit, scabrously funny portrait of multiethnic European urban culture, similar to Ralph Bakshi's early-1970s adults-only cartoons "Fritz the Cat" and "Heavy Traffic".
Highly explicit 3D-rendered portraits are going viral on Tumblr, and the youth are obviously responsible.
And then, just to show that I, too, was willing to have some skin in the game, I posted an arty yet explicit nude self-portrait, which, as a ginger, gives new meaning to the term "redwood curtain".
The new medium of oil painting enables van Eyck to suspend a world as if in a glossy mirror — something he makes explicit in his Arnolfini Portrait by depicting a convex mirror at the back of the cool chamber, in which you can see tiny figures, one of whom is van Eyck.
The backlash against Richardson, 48, whose work has been featured in high-profile fashion magazines including Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, has increased in recent months, as women continue to come forward with new accusations against the photographer, who is known for his often sexually explicit work and celebrity portraits.
