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Joe DiMaggio Bares All
Courtesy of gallery Modernism
A full-frontal nude of baseball great Joe DiMaggio, showering after a game, is currently on view in the exhibition Hunted and Gathered at the gallery Modernism in San Francisco. The photograph, which was taken around 1940, reveals the naked Yankee slugger soaking wet and grinning happily. It is part of a collection of quirky, anonymous photographs assembled by Robert Flynn Johnson, curator emeritus of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. When asked where he got the photo, Johnson joked, "I have friends in low places."
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SPWeiser
I thought this was a site which presented newsworthy items. This display of a demeaning photo which abuses the privacy of Mr DiMaggio is disgusting. It truely goes beyond the pale! Is this site run by adolescent lasivious individuals without a shred of integrity?
wbishop12
Why do people fear the penis so much in this country?
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baptox
And the DB should also make sure they censor all images of Michelangelo's "David" on their site, too! Nudity! Mon dieu! What is the world coming to?
ftn4706
Sounds like you're the one that is not old enough to handle human sexuality. This is another example of why people that preach abstinence are insane; and why kids that are taught the absurd idea are actually 4 times more likely to have teenage pregnancies.
g-proof
ITS NOT ABOUT BEING SCARED OF THE PENIS DO YOU PEOPLE NOT REALIZE WHAT THIS ALSO SIGNIFIES... IT SIGNIFIES THAT MEN DONT DESERVE PRIVACY IN THE SHOWER ... REGUARDLESS OF HOW OLD THE PHOTO WAS OR WHAT KIND OF MAN JOE WAS. ITS A INVASION OF HIS PRIVACY , SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT THIS SPORTS MEDIA NEEDS TO GET OUT OF THE LOCKER ROOM AND ALLOW MEN A CHANCE TO GET DRESSED THIS JUST PROVES HOW MUCH AMERICA DOES NOT CARE ABOUT MENS PRIVACY. IF JOE WANTED TO SHOW EVERYONE A NUDE PICTURE OF HIMSELF HE WOULD HAVE WENT TO A PHOTOGRAPHER AND PAID FOR THEM TO TAKE THE PICTURE , AND WOULD OF ALLOWED IT . HE DID NONE OF THIS THIS PICTURE SHOULD NOT BE PUBLISHED OR MADE PUBLIC . THAT IS THE PRIVATE SANCTITY OF A MANS LOCKER ROOM SOMETHING THAT THOSE MEN SHOULD BE ABLE TO KEEP FOR THEMSELVES. SOOO O YEA ITS BASICALLY A LEGAL PEEPING TOM PICTURE. GREAT
NDM1973
I too wonder why people in America are so scared of the penis (or the vagina, or breasts...); cognitive dissonance anyone?
Wetpixels
Meh. I think you meant to click CNN.com. Who cares really? I don't find this story very entertaining either, but I do like the fact the Daily Beast isn't so politically correct, and sometimes even a little gritty. It's also a lot more light-hearted and less doom and gloom than other news sites.
neo0071
This is not appropriate for young children! How can you publish a penis even from 1940?
Jacobovs
Grow up
citivas
Who ever said this website is appropriate for young children? It never has been -- they have published nudity often, though usually female. I asusme that's no more appropriate for kids than this. I don't think TDB promotes itself as being appropriate for kids.
Wetpixels
Yep. Art Beast almost always has some sort of artistic nudity. Doesn't seem Joe minded the pic being taken either. Big deal.
celiamedeiros61
I'm sure kids these days can see more nudity than this picture if they really wanted.
I work in the medical field and i can't tell you how many people i see that get colon cancer and breast cancer cervical cancer because they are ashamed to show their private parts to their Docs, that is because in America we make the naked body such taboo. We are not ashamed about any other part of our bodies why only the parts that are used to produce precious life, are we ashamed. so people get over it already.
venusekt
I agree with celiamedeiros61. We as Americans do attach way too much shame to nudity and sexuality. And as a teacher I can tell you that people should be far more ashamed about what comes out of their mouths than they are about their bodies. Or what comes out of their keyboards for that matter.
wbishop12
And why is this not appropriate? He's taking a shower for God's sake. It's a human body. The only reason children are ashamed of nudity, is because their parents teach them to be.
ftn4706
I agree Grow up..
the4leafclover
neo, any "young children" that may be browsing the DB looking for this--gasp!--penis shouldn't be shocked to find if they're old and/or clever enough to get this far.
If they're not, then I nominate you the bad parent watch dog. Go forth and scold.
DanKenton
Yikes, that's one rough looking bat!
sophia5
Maybe Paul Simon's song "Mrs. Robinson" said it best.
"Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio"
Can't see why Marylin Monroe divorced him ?
edisonfigg
It was cold! There was shrinkage!
ljblueyes
Hahahaha!!!! Finally...some humor! :o)
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n--Y--charles116aldebaran
first of all his penis is not bad at all. this man just got out of a shower with a bunch of other men and you expect him for him to be sporting wood or something? I'm sure the man is a grower.
keemia
Gay!!!
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planetgroucho
Egad. Yikes. He's not circumsized. Eck.
RRinFLA
He was un-mutilated and intact the way nature intended. He looks great. I can't believe how stupid Americans are; no different from the tribes that mutilate their young girls' genitals.
darseg01
yea, because americans invented circumcision. it's not like it's been around since biblical times
MO-JM2
I have no problem with publishing / exhibiting these kinds of photos if common courtesies were observed. For example, did DiMaggio ever give permission for the photo to be taken / published? Were family members asked about it, just out of courtesy? If "yes" on all these questions, then no problem and very nice photo.
wbishop12
Amen!
tcnnyc
He obviously didn't care that the photo was being taken. In fact he seems to be smiling. Great photo. Softens his gruff image quite a bit.
g-proof
THAT DOESNT MEAN HE DIDNT CARE , HE WAS IN THE SHOWERS TALKING TO HIS TEAMMATES AND PROBLY HAPPY ABOUT A WIN AND SOME CAMERA GUY WALKED IN AND TOOK THE PICTURE... CANT YOU SEE THE SOAP IN HIS HANDS HE WASNT POSING OR ANYTHING ... HOW RETARDED CAN YOU BE... IF THIS WAS A PICTURE FROM THE 40S OF A WOMAN IN A LOCKER ROOM IN BLACK AND WHITE THE PERSON WHO TOOK THAT PICTURE WOULD BE IN JAIL
oliverckerr
We need a rerun of that fabulous video about mowing the lawn
Descartes
Easy everybody. Photography as Art. It shows a different side of a Baseball Legend. Try to have a sense of humor. Don't like it, then move on.
pchapeau
As several have already pointed out ...
The absurd and illogical idea that the human body in its nature state is somehow obscene ... is way more disturbing.
I find the fact that we must hide the human body and label it obscene ... is the ultimate obscenity
How sad.
boupierre
I will defer to Paul Simon for my comment:
" "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Joltin' Joe has left and gone away."
Thank you.
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