Brian Eno On Pornography
From a 1974 profile of Brian Eno, found via Bondage Blog:
His voice trails off as he spies a copy of Search magazine. He leafs through it with obvious pleasure, but the gleam in his eyes softens, and sadly he shakes his head, "It's a burning shame that most people want to keep pornography under cover when it's such a highly developed art form which is one of the reasons that I started collecting pornographic playing cards I've got about 50 packs which feature on all my record covers for the astute observer.
"There's something about pornography which has a similarity to rock music. A pornographic photographer aims his camera absolutely directly, at the centre of sexual attention. He's not interested in the environment of the room.
"I hate the sort of photography in Penthouse and Playboy which is such a compromise between something to give you a hard-on and something which pretends to be artistic. The straight pornographers aim right there where......
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