Pascal Baetens. Nude Photography. The Art and The Craft. 2007

photography finds its direction 19 ...

20 THE HIsTORy OF NuDE PHOTOGRAPHy Nudes & classicism The beauty of the statues of ancient Greece and Rome has inspired pain ...

the rest of her career. Removed from their political context, however, Riefenstahl’s images are admired today for their techniqu ...

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giants, dwarfs, transexuals, and mentally disturbed people were part of her gallery of portraits of an America of exclusion. In ...

with prominent bellies and mounded hips. The voluptuous forms owe more to the ancient fertility idols found the world over, the ...

Ritts (1952–2002) continued the search for beauty and sensuality in the male body. femiNist Nudes With the birth of magazines su ...

waves or rocks, and made full use of the strong light of southern Europe. For Gibson, the erotic power of the nude originated fr ...

the commercial Nude In the 1970s and 1980s, fashion photographers began to present a new, confrontational image of the female bo ...

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to the beautiful nudes created by top commercial photographers such as the German Peter Lindbergh (1944–), the Frenchman Patrick ...

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defining styles & approaches 33 introduction this section shows you the best ways of getting started as a fine art nude phot ...

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opportunities & choices opportunities & choices 35 Making successful images requires both insp ...

36 defining styles & approaches different themes there are so many different themes and styles in nude photography it would ...

opportunities & choices 37 Cinematic styles When images create a story line they work like a film still—a small part of a bi ...

38 defining styles & approaches pursuing a concept a series of photographs based on a single concept and realized in a parti ...