How to Shoot Naked Ordinary Women
The 1990's was truly a different era.
I’m still in denial, but I must admit the 90’s was truly a different era. The internet was new. You had to access it by dial up. Digital photography was replacing film photography and people like George Metivier, a popular photographer in Long Beach, CA, was caught in the crosshairs of changing technology. It truly was like Boogie Nights, but instead of film going to video it was the encroaching digital and streaming age that began to render certain types of art of their value (if not simply doom it to obsolescence).
I just loaded my movie, How to Shoot Happy Naked Ordinary Women (1999-ish), into the member’s section of Walkertown Mediawerx. Now that Blue Sky is providing a safer place to showcase works of erotic art (and not as sensitive as Facebook or X), I’m giving this movie another chance.
The 90’s might have been the last gasp of the sexual revolution that began in the 1960’s. George Metivier was a photographer who photographed everyone from John F. Kennedy to Heather Locklear. He also photographed Lifestyles Conventions, shot for Girlfriends, On Our Backs, Femme Fatales and a number of other magazines.
If you happened to be in Long Beach, CA during that era, you might have seen his art in coffee shops. He did have run in’s with angry boyfriends and husbands when they found out their significant others posed for him (and sometimes appeared in public galleries), but nothing was more fatal than when digital replaced film. His eyesight failing, it was a struggle to adapt.
He passed away in October 2012. His wife and daughter also passed away two years before him. His wife designed masks and his daughter wrote and published zines (another forgotten art form from the late 1990’s). The entire family is no more.
Here is the last post he made on Facebook:
How to Shoot Naked Ordinary Women is a compilation of shoots I video’d with George and his various models. If you attended Glamourcon or Lifestyles back in that era, you might have seen this video playing at his booth. You may watch the entire movie in the member’s section.
Heather Locklear and George Metivier