September 6, 2005.

The perfect photoshoot and a perfect future

Since its inception, the primary goal of Body in Mind has been to find or create images of women more beautiful than anything anyone has ever seen before, in the history of mankind.

Easier said than done. Beautiful women are everywhere. Our culture is chocked full of television, movies, magazines, and websites, each dedicated to their own individual ideas of female beauty - some of them quite stunning.

To achieve our goal, we had to examine female beauty more closely than anyone ever dreamed could be done - philosophically. In this light, we reverse-engineered some of the most beautiful photographs of women in the world, classic images as well as our own personal favourites, and used our discoveries about what actually causes female beauty, to define and create images of what we call 'superbeauty'.

Today, many say female beauty is created only when we remove everything but a woman from a photo. We have found the opposite to be true. In fact, superbeauty requires putting everything back in. Those who admire photos of 'just the girl' or so-called natural nudes are not honest. Without man-made elements in a photo such as the model's grooming and posing, and the photographer's choice of background and composition, a photo of a woman would be boring as hell, no matter how physically impressive the model was. But then, natural nudes are not concerned with maximizing the beauty-causing potential of anything else in the image and they offer no guidance on how this can be done, while superbeauty requires excruciating care to make sure absolutely everything has been done to make the women as beautful as possible.

Beauty is not simple. Unfortunately, it's much easier to talk about it than create it. And images of superbeauty are especially rare. Such examples as do exist, exist only by accident. Or else they are made only to sell some product which is less exciting than the beauty of the woman. We think this is a real shame.

Because superbeautiful images are so rare, we've long wanted to be able to provide artists and photographers with the knowledge they need to create them, but without a perfect visual example, it's been hard to show someone what superbeauty really looks like.

We now have it. We have created the perfect photoshoot to demonstrate pure superbeauty. This series of Mіchеllе Mаrsh by Mіchаеl Whіtе does just that.

Superbeauty is about putting objective values into an image of a woman - the two most important being sexuality and morality. There is no image of a woman in existence that can be considered beautiful that does not contain BOTH of these human values. Think of one of your own favourite images if you need proof. For example, even the most innocent and wholesome example of female beauty - the angel - is still sexually female, while the most sexual example of female beauty - the porn star - always manages to exude her feeling that what she's doing is good.

But the greatest example of beauty of all, however, exudes both sexuality and morality, equally - the woman who is naked, but a respectable part of human civilization.

This woman is Mіchеllе Mаrsh. She is the girl next door. But she welcomes you into her house half naked and without shame. Perhaps she gives us a glimpse of what our civilization will look like in 50 years when the female body is no longer something to be ashamed of. In this sense, superbeauty is a time machine - it takes us to a perfect future, a future full of maximized values, beauty, and happiness. After all, why banish beautiful women to dark forests or barren wastelands? As wonderful as these images can be, nude women have been excluded from the realm of acceptability - and civilization - for far too long, centuries in fact. It's time to bring them back in from the cold, in from their long exile from humanity. Let's welcome them into our daily lives, into our cities, our buildings, our workplaces, our homes, our hearts, our hopes, our art, and our futures.

Superbeauty does that.

But what does it look like?

Michael's pictures of Michelle show us. Superbeauty is like something from the Spоrts Illυstrаtеd swimsuit issue, except that the girls are nude. It also looks like something from Playboy, except with a non-sexual morality. Actually, superbeauty is more like Playboy and Spоrts Illυstrаtеd combined - big, bold, vivacious women, posing happily and confidently nude, pictured in perfectly stunning surroundings with exceptional skill in an adoring, artful style. This has been the goal of Body in Mind since it began - the infusion of objective human values into images of nude women.

Several years ago I wrote in an attempt to help bring superbeauty into existence:

"It's weird, but in a world with Vіctоrіа's Sеcrеt catalogs and television commercials, bare breasts on Prіmе Tіmе television and in public, where Playboy bunnies become models and supermodels pose nude, where porn stars become actresses and actresses make pornographic videos - indeed, in a culture so absolutely saturated with images of beautiful women - pictures which blend the female body with the most wholesome morality, creating the epitome of female beauty, are the only ones that don't exist."

Until now.

We hope to have much more superbeauty on Body in Mind in the future. And we hope to have a future world full of more women like Michelle and more photos like Michael's, proof that the greatest beauty does not exist naturally, but like the future, must be created by us.

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