{"id":1248,"date":"2012-02-13T21:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2012-02-14T04:23:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:23:08","slug":"roger-weiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Roger Weiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aw1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1251\" title=\"aw1\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aw1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aw1.jpg 625w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aw1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><center><\/p>\n<pre>(photo above: Suspension,series)<\/pre>\n<div><em>&#8230;&#8221;I disguise myself completely behind the \u201cmachine\u201d\u2014the camera. This is where I derive my strength. In a sense, I am in each of my pictures, literally there in the picture hiding. It\u2019s a way of surpassing my limits, my reality, in an instant without mediation.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0My point of view as an artist? I think that society creates and destroys models in the interest of a few. It\u2019s our responsibility, as artists, to find or create alternatives&#8230;.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><em><span>&#8211; Roger Weiss<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span>Roger Weiss captivates me with his photography. My favorite is his series titled <\/span><em><span>I AM FLESH (which you can find on his website)<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0that showcases the female body, and demands the <\/span><span>viewer to make some sort of relation to the female being photographed. The rawness of space within his photographs are vast and beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Explore and find more here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rogerweiss.ch\/\">Roger Weiss Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Posted by: Jennyb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo above: Suspension,series) &#8230;&#8221;I disguise myself completely behind the \u201cmachine\u201d\u2014the camera. This is where I derive my strength. In a sense, I am in each of my pictures, literally there in the picture hiding. It\u2019s a way of surpassing my limits, my reality, in an instant without mediation. \u00a0My point of view as an artist? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}