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Heat
By Roger Camp
ISBN-10: 8881586789
ISBN-13: 978-8881586783
What can I say? Looking through the pages of Roger Camp’s Heat reminded me of being a teenager and sitting on the floor in front of the couch at my father’s house trying to watch the cable television porn through static.
The photos are interesting in that they catch what to me looks like came from a 1970’s horror B-Movie. The people look real and unreal at the same time – like in a pornographic house of wax. In certain frame the subjects’ faces which are contorted in ecstasy are further contorted by the television screen to appear to be in utter pain. In an odd twist, which Roger Camp may have called serendipity, many of the women in the photos appear to be blow up dolls that are slightly deflated.
The focus of the book in an odd way is not necessarily the subject of sex per se but rather “catching the moment” in photo. I would suppose that Roger Camp succeeded, but if this were truly the case, then I have to ask why choose a pornographic channel to get the shots and not just any pay television channel?
I have to work hard to see the natural eroticism in the photos, but in my own serendipitous way Heat gives me lots to reminisce about.
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