Category: commentary

Miley Cyrus, Annie Liebowitz, Vanity Fair

You’ve heard the flap, you’ve probably seen this celebrity “issue” grow from a molehill into a mountain. If you haven’t heard about Miley Cyrus’ (a.k.a. Disney’s “Hannah Montana“)photoshoot with famed photographer Annie Liebowitz for the magazine Vanity Fair, then we’re…

Some People Just Don’t Get It

The wonderful (not) rinkori has posted on LiveJournal some very unflattering remarks on some of the BeautifulYouth Project photos I’ve posted on DeviantArt. At 18 (and just back from the prom), she feels it is her civic duty to warn…

New Year, New Direction

Happy New Year to all, and I hope that 2007 will bring everyone more prosperity, happiness, and beauty in their lives. As you may have recently noticed, we have stopped selling Collectors’ Edition Photosets and Flashback Galleries on the BeautifulYouth…

But it bears repeating…

I know I blogged about it about a year ago, but this photographer’s blog continues to stun me with his raw talent and eye for key æsthetics. I love this guy’s work. I love that he is a struggling artist,…

Late Nights and Answers

As some of you may know, my wife and I (actually most of the work was done by my wife) just gave birth to a baby! Proud parents that we are, one thing I have learned quickly is that babies…

Rich Model, Poor Model

One of the interesting things about the BeautifulYouth models… is the wide variety of backgrounds from which the models come to us. I got to thinking about this during this week, as I put up a page for our patrons…

The Winter of our Disconnect

As you may have heard, recently, my family and I moved. Not across oceans, not across the country- not even across the state. Just a mere 5 miles, within the same lovely hamlet-kinda-by-the-sea. And, in moving our humble abode, I…

A Sigh of Relief

I had previously posted here that two of the BeautifulYouth models had signed up as models for one of those “barely legal” sites, where they posed in sexually suggestive ways with as little clothing as is legally possible. Good news!-…