Happy Holidays from Art Nudes

Hi all, 

I'm taking a little time off from blogging to eat too much and visit with friends and family for the holidays.  I'll resume posting just after the new year.

In the meantime, here's a special seasonal post for you all.  Since this is the "season of giving", you may be interested in this list of secular charities.  These organizations do great work without any proselytizing.  I encourage you to support them.

UNICEF

Oxfam International

Doctors Without Borders

Kiva - Loans that change lives

The Nature Conservancy - Protecting Nature, Preserving Life

Amnesty International | Working to Protect Human Rights

Tomek Jankowski

Exceptional work ranging from gorgeous fashion and beauty work to the visceral and surreal "Tissue" series, by Polish photographer Tomek Jankowski.

Tomek Jankowski Photography

Alberto Bevacqua

Here's an unusual combination of artistic disciplines that end up working well together. California based furniture and steel fabricator/photographer Alberto Bevacqua utilizes his skill with metal to create strange body ornaments for his models. Interesting stuff.

Alberto Bevacqua

Mitsuo Suzuki

Japanese photographer Mitsuo Suzuki wrote in to let us know that he's just updated his website with a new series entitled "Corset". Go pay him a visit and check it out!

MITSUO SUZUKI

THE RAW FILES: The Making of a Photograph (Mac)

Mclain Swift just posted an interesting "making of" tutorial for the image above over at the RAW FILES blog. While it's a simple lighting set up, this is a good introduction to the setup process, lighting basics, and post-production.

THE RAW FILES: The Making of a Photograph (Mac)

In other news, I'd also like to thank Mclain for taking on the role of moderator over at the Art Nudes Forum. He'll be taking care of cleaning out the spam posts when I'm too busy or just not paying attention. Thanks Mac!

i.m. ruzz

Calgary based photographer, writer, film-maker and all round interesting guy i.m. ruzz.

The writing that accompanies his photographs brings a whole new dimension that I found really engaging.

ruzz.org

Lars Deneyer

Quietly introspective work by Belgian photographer Lars Deneyer.

lars deneyer - less serious

Remi Rebillard

French born, New York based, fashion and editorial photographer Remi Rebillard wrote in to share his work with us.

A warning for the faint of heart, or early morning risers like me, if you choose to watch the flash intro to his website, you may want to turn down your volume!

Remi Rebillard

Marc Dubord

Heavily textured, distressed and worked over images by photographer Marc Dubord. Not everyone's cup of tea perhaps, but this photographer is consistent in his approach and his images are bizarrely creative.

photoxyde

Jim Linderman

Vintage photo collector and writer Jim Linderman has just published a couple of books that might make nice gifts for someone on your list this year.

The first is his illustrated essay on vernacular erotic photography from his blog of the same name:

Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden

The second is a reprinting of a marvelous old scrapbook of "racy" clippings found in the trash over 50 years ago.

Gals Gams Garters

Eric Kellerman - Jannis Brevet

Art Nudes' own resident curmudgeon Eric Kellerman has gone from photographing the nude to photographing the food!

Eric's latest project is the photography for a new cookbook from one of the Netherlands' top restaurants. Although this is slightly off topic from our standard fare around here, I wanted to share our old friend's latest accomplishment. It looks beautiful, great job Eric!

See a preview of the book here:

Inter Scaldes Jannis Brevet Cuisine and Art

Order it from Amazon here:

Amazon.com: Inter Scaldes : Jannis Brevet: Books

Ted Preuss

I was delighted when photographer and superb platinum/paladium printer Ted Preuss dropped me a line to share three "secret" galleries of his work that are not accessible through his main website. Everyone loves special privileges. Thanks Ted!

Gallery #1 29 Palms

Gallery #2 Model: Y

Gallery #3 Joshua Tree

LUZ GALLERY-LOW FIDELITY

For those of you who are going to be in Victoria BC during December, I've got one of my Holga nudes in the Low Fidelity juried exhibit at the Luz Gallery at 977A Fort St Victoria, BC Canada. Come by and check it out!

LUZ GALLERY

Michael Ezra Art Studio

Beautiful clean and uncomplicated figure studies by American photographer Michael Ezra. In addition to the fine photography, this site features some truly innovative posing by his models.

Michael Ezra Art Studio

You may also want to visit his Photosite.ru profile

Art Nude Reader Feature

Photo by David Sunshine

A primary goal of this blog is to be a resource for inspiration and reference for photographers. Therefore, it's always a pleasure to hear from readers who want to share their work. Following are three of the readers who've written in the past week or so.

Gritty, grainy, defocused and low-fidelity images by David Sunshine.

Figure and nude work in a variety of styles by James Pattel

Steampunk inspired images by Tsirkus Fotografika

If you have a website or an online gallery you want to share, please feel free to write in and let me know the link!

Johannes Schwab

Powerful and deceptively simple nude portraits and other work by German photographer Johannes Schwab.

Johannes Schwab

Mikel Forma

Light and atmospheric nudes and portraits by American photographer Mikel Forma.

Mikel Forma | Work

A. J. Kahn

A.J. Kahn has updated his portfolio with some strong new work in his "Recent Projects" gallery.

A. J. Kahn

Stephanie Anne Landers

Photo by Ted Preuss

This week's model profile is professional art model (and Art Nudes reader) Stephanie Anne Landers. Stephanie's striking looks remind me of Faye Dunaway from the Bonnie and Clyde era. Sadly, last time she was on Vancouver Island, Dave Aharonian hogged her all to himself, (damn you Dave!) but hopefully she'll make it back this way again. In the meantime, she is based in New Mexico, but continues to travel around North America and shoot with other fortunate photographers.

Stephanie Anne Landers - Actress, Model

Dave Aharonian Photography

My friend and fellow Vancouver Islander, Dave Aharonian has just completely redesigned and updated his site with lots of his gorgeous outdoor nudes.

Dave Aharonian Photography