Forums > General Industry > Would you share your favorite "Lolita" image?

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TroisCouleurs

Posts: 1021

Dublin, California, US

Here is mine:

https://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f326/Elwitch/IMG_8321v2.jpg

Nov 20 06 12:03 am Link

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pegasusmaiden

Posts: 190

West Sacramento, California, US

https://www.californiacosplaytimes.com/copper/albums/userpics/10004/normal_DSCF4844.jpg

Dec 31 06 05:06 am Link

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mjkhfryimhg

Posts: 2974

Tucson, Arizona, US

whats a lolita image?

Dec 31 06 05:07 am Link

Photographer

Davis Images

Posts: 93

Tampa, Florida, US

Underage or young looking girls.

Dec 31 06 08:26 am Link

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vinny photography

Posts: 422

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

a girl who look very sexually innocent and young

i would say in the movie Lolita by Stanley Kubrick - Sue Lyon

Dec 31 06 08:27 am Link

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Searcher

Posts: 775

New York, New York, US

Daniel Woolfolk wrote:
whats a lolita image?

Ever see The Professional?

Dec 31 06 08:45 am Link

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Vector 38

Posts: 8296

Austin, Texas, US

Daniel Woolfolk wrote:
whats a lolita image?

Searcher wrote:
Ever see The Professional?

FYI: for those of us not from [America], that might not have shown in our country? or might have had a different name; internat'l crowd present ... but yeah, the "Lolita" image kind of rings through. hmm.

~ F

Dec 31 06 08:52 am Link

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giovanni gruttola

Posts: 1279

Middle Island, New York, US

Searcher wrote:
Ever see The Professional?

https://nuclear.ucdavis.edu/~calderon/Images/MoviePosters/professional_intl.jpg
I love that movie smile

Dec 31 06 08:52 am Link

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MR EMILIANO

Posts: 27

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

https://www.uploadhut.com/upload/281270.jpg??

Dec 31 06 08:55 am Link

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MR EMILIANO

Posts: 27

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dec 31 06 08:55 am Link

Model

MR EMILIANO

Posts: 27

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

https://www.uploadhut.com/upload/281261.jpg

Dec 31 06 08:56 am Link

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MR EMILIANO

Posts: 27

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Like this???

Dec 31 06 08:56 am Link

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Justin

Posts: 22389

Fort Collins, Colorado, US

I did a shoot once with a nice young lady, had good ID for being 18, and after I looked at the pictures, felt like a pervy creep. And they weren't nude. She was just so young-looking. I didn't enjoy it. I think I'll pass.

Dec 31 06 09:07 am Link

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Searcher

Posts: 775

New York, New York, US

Emiliano83 wrote:
Like this???

No. Wow. No.

Dec 31 06 09:08 am Link

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dgold

Posts: 10302

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, US

Jayme....

https://img4.modelmayhem.com/060901/21/ … d545c0.jpg
                                         18+

Dec 31 06 09:14 am Link

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MR EMILIANO

Posts: 27

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Why not??? More lolitas than these???

Dec 31 06 09:14 am Link

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Art Film Cameras

Posts: 701

Poland, Maine, US

Here's mine:
https://modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pid=1980473

Same girl as my avatar with a tad bit more Lolita-esque qualities, I guess.

Dec 31 06 09:29 am Link

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Jim Ball

Posts: 17632

Frontenac, Kansas, US

Lolita is a tricky image to pull off.  Lolita is a young girl barely pubescent, but with a sensuality/sexual precociousness beyond her years.  Nabokov's Lolita was 12 years old. If you use an actual underage model for such an image, it is easy to run afoul of the authorities.  If you use a model over 18, it is harder to capture the element of innocence needed along with the sensuality & sexual precociousness.

Dec 31 06 10:07 am Link

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JT Hodges

Posts: 2191

Austin, Texas, US

Jim Ball wrote:
Lolita is a tricky image to pull off.  Lolita is a young girl barely pubescent, but with a sensuality/sexual precociousness beyond her years.  Nabokov's Lolita was 12 years old. If you use an actual underage model for such an image, it is easy to run afoul of the authorities.  If you use a model over 18, it is harder to capture the element of innocence needed along with the sensuality & sexual precociousness.

Somebody who knows these things better then myself can probably clarify, or verify.

The "authorities" made a push to make "lolita" images, done with a model who is of age, illegal.

Dec 31 06 10:33 am Link

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Jim Ball

Posts: 17632

Frontenac, Kansas, US

JT Hodges wrote:

Somebody who knows these things better then myself can probably clarify, or verify.

The "authorities" made a push to make "lolita" images, done with a model who is of age, illegal.

I am aware of this.  It's directed primarily at porn and makes it illegal to portray a person in a sexually explicit manner (paraphrasing the actual law) as underage in any media, even if they are not.  "Lolita" images of adult women in school girl outfits does not meet the criteria as no one is fooled into believing that it is a pubescent girl in the image.  I think the key to that law is that the image must pursuade the viewer that they are viewing a pubescent or underage girl or child.  Photorealistic computer generated images fall under that law, iirc.

Dec 31 06 10:51 am Link

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S W I N S K E Y

Posts: 24376

Saint Petersburg, Florida, US

inspired from the movie poster:

https://www.swinskey-photographic-art.com/isobel.jpg

Dec 31 06 10:58 am Link

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giovanni gruttola

Posts: 1279

Middle Island, New York, US

https://www.msu.edu/user/svoboda1/taxi_driver/pictures/poster04.jpg

Dec 31 06 10:59 am Link

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Ixlagor

Posts: 68

London, England, United Kingdom

Im'age NY (INY) wrote:

https://nuclear.ucdavis.edu/~calderon/Images/MoviePosters/professional_intl.jpg
I love that movie smile

Great film, and kind of fits the thread when you think how old Natalie Portman was etc...

Dec 31 06 11:01 am Link

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GWC

Posts: 1407

Baltimore, Maryland, US

Emiliano83 wrote:
https://www.uploadhut.com/upload/281261.jpg

Dude. Thats awesome! Its like an image shot by David Hamblengton when he was just a beginner. That frightening composishun lends a "dynamic tension" to the framing of the shot. The slightly flat exposure adds "pathos" - whatever that is - and the fact that she's waaaaay too fat to be a "lolita" creates a cognitive dissonance in the viewer that raises this image to the level of performance art.

Dude. You rawk!

GWC!

Dec 31 06 11:04 am Link

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S W I N S K E Y

Posts: 24376

Saint Petersburg, Florida, US

GWC wrote:
Dude. You rawk! GWC!

ouch....

yet a brilliant observation...

Dec 31 06 11:10 am Link

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Webspinner Studios

Posts: 6964

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

https://img4.modelmayhem.com/060605/03/4483ebc89fa11.jpg

This is as close as I have ever come to a lolita image....

Dec 31 06 11:12 am Link

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Webspinner Studios

Posts: 6964

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

Doug Swinskey wrote:

ouch....

yet a brilliant observation...

well, we all know GWC is the rawkinist dude around. And he also has some really good observations. I would TFP with him anytime.....oh, I mean Lapis.

Dec 31 06 11:13 am Link

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Fotographia Fantastique

Posts: 17339

White River Junction, Vermont, US

I'm told this is "Lolita-ish". I don't know, but it does get the most views in my portfolio for some reason.

https://img2.modelmayhem.com/050718/16/42dc18949e9c0.jpg

Dec 31 06 11:14 am Link

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Henri3

Posts: 7392

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Love to see more of this...unfortunately...don't have time to locate my contributions.....
   but I just LOVED the last Lolita movie with Jeremy Irons....all the sexuality aside... it was very much a profound tale of impossible love... and not simple lust... that destroyed Humbert.
  I was deeply moved by the story, how societal norms can crush those who don't fit in.
Romantic love recognizes no such things as race,age,social position...and many a tragedy, Opera has explored such themes.
  Sultry, sexy playfulness is always delightful to explore as well.

Dec 31 06 11:33 am Link

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STUDIOMONA PHOTOGRAPHY

Posts: 33697

Avon, Minnesota, US

is this lolita-esque? smile
https://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c139/bojuinc/_DSC7710copymm.jpg?t=1167583149
model: xshatteredstarx

Dec 31 06 11:39 am Link

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Jim Ball

Posts: 17632

Frontenac, Kansas, US

StudioMona wrote:
is this lolita-esque? smile
https://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c139/bojuinc/_DSC7710copymm.jpg?t=1167583149
model: xshatteredstarx

A very pretty lady in a nice image, but it doesn't really hit me as what Nabokov was describing.  The key word is lady.  This is obviously a woman and not a woman-child.

  Have you seen either of the "Lolita" movies?  Either the 1962 one with a 16 yr old Sue Lyon or the 1997 one with 14 yr old Dominick Swain?  Remember, Nabokov's Lolita was 12 years old.

Edit:  The first image in this thread is closer to "Lolita" than any others posted so far, imho.  The young lady in the photo is innocent, yet sensual but of an indeterminate age.  She could be 14.  She could be 21.

Dec 31 06 11:51 am Link

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STUDIOMONA PHOTOGRAPHY

Posts: 33697

Avon, Minnesota, US

Jim Ball wrote:
A very pretty lady in a nice image, but it doesn't really hit me as what Nabokov was describing.  The key word is lady.  This is obviously a woman and not a woman-child.

  Have you seen either of the "Lolita" movies?  Either the 1962 one with a 16 yr old Sue Lyon or the 1997 one with 14 yr old Dominick Swain?  Remember, Nabokov's Lolita was 12 years old.

nope..but I will smile thank you for your post smile model in my pic is 17 yrs old fwiw smile

Dec 31 06 11:54 am Link

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Jim Ball

Posts: 17632

Frontenac, Kansas, US

Jim Ball wrote:
A very pretty lady in a nice image, but it doesn't really hit me as what Nabokov was describing.  The key word is lady.  This is obviously a woman and not a woman-child.

  Have you seen either of the "Lolita" movies?  Either the 1962 one with a 16 yr old Sue Lyon or the 1997 one with 14 yr old Dominick Swain?  Remember, Nabokov's Lolita was 12 years old.

StudioMona wrote:
nope..but I will smile thank you for your post smile model in my pic is 17 yrs old fwiw smile

I like the 1997 version with Dominick Swain & Jeremy Irons better.  It comes closer to the pathos of Nabokov's novel than the 1962 version.

FWIW: Your 17 yr old model is a grown woman in every respect except legal stature.  She's not going to look physically much different at 18 or 19 than she does now. smile

Dec 31 06 12:02 pm Link

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Jim Ball

Posts: 17632

Frontenac, Kansas, US

pegasusmaiden wrote:
https://www.californiacosplaytimes.com/copper/albums/userpics/10004/normal_DSCF4844.jpg

This is a cute image. (Is it you?)

The girl certainly looks young enough for Lolita, but, to my eye, the image is missing the necessary feeling of sensuality or newly awakened sexuality necessary for a Lolita image.

Dec 31 06 12:06 pm Link

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STUDIOMONA PHOTOGRAPHY

Posts: 33697

Avon, Minnesota, US

TroisCouleurs wrote:
Here is mine:

https://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f326/Elwitch/IMG_8321v2.jpg

smile lovely work!

Dec 31 06 12:07 pm Link

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Alli Michelle

Posts: 1611

Miami, Florida, US

dgold wrote:
Jayme....

https://img4.modelmayhem.com/060901/21/ … d545c0.jpg
                                         18+

that picture does not look lolita-ish to me at all.

Dec 31 06 12:13 pm Link

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Alli Michelle

Posts: 1611

Miami, Florida, US

https://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/pixiebandana/IMG_9644.jpg

not exactlty the kind of lolita you were describibing.

Dec 31 06 12:16 pm Link

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Vanessa Dawn- Jhaesayte

Posts: 2567

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This was one I did last summer. My friend toook the photos
http://www.fragilemuse.org

http://myspace-787.vo.llnwd.net/00464/7 … 0787_l.jpg

Dec 31 06 12:17 pm Link

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Jim Ball

Posts: 17632

Frontenac, Kansas, US

TroisCouleurs wrote:
Here is mine:

https://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f326/Elwitch/IMG_8321v2.jpg

Question for TroisCouleurs:  Is this an image of you?  If not, who is the model & photographer.  I can't access the Photobucket album as I am not a member.

Dec 31 06 12:17 pm Link

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Searcher

Posts: 775

New York, New York, US

Only the first shot in the thread and the two movie posters have anything remotely lolita-ish going on. It was a man-girl relationship.

Wikipedia wrote:
the book's narrator and main character Humbert Humbert becomes sexually obsessed with a pubescent girl, who is 12 years old

Dec 31 06 12:17 pm Link