Hackel Bury Fine Art - Allan Jenkins

Valeria Leaning, 2003
Hand-coated cyanotype

OK, I can't stop myself. One last link for 2003. Here's UK photographer and master of the cyanotype, Allan Jenkins.

Hackel Bury Fine Art - Allan Jenkins

This link via the excellent Conscientious: Contemporary European Photography Weblog

Hello everyone and Seasons Greetings. Here's wishing all my regular readers and anyone else who happens upon this a happy holidays and a successful and healthy 2004. I'm taking a few days off to eat, drink, and be merry but look for more posts in the new year.

Best,

Michael B

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Leonard Nimoy (yes, THAT Leonard Nemoy) uses classic art and religious themes as his inspiration. His Shekhina series which uses nude models to depict the Hebrew goddess figure, generated considerable controversy for its use of objects sacred to Judaism.

leonardnimoyphotography.com

Voyeur

An online version of the photo book Voyeur brings together a collection of photographs that explore our obsession with sneaking a peak, or outright staring.

"Many of the photographs gathered here examine the play between voyeur and object of desire. Happily, few see it in the same light. There are at least as many shades to the subject as there are photographers in this exhibition. Never has a medium been more perfectly wedded to its subject than the camera is to voyeurism."

Voyeur

Rafael Navarro

Here is the work of brilliant Spanish photographer Rafael Navarro

Rafael Navarro

Photographie

Mystery and ambiguity permeates the strange photos of Laurent Askienazy

Photographie

Corps érodés

Stephane Diremszian superimposes images of models with decaying urban walls to create powerful photographs.

Corps érodés

Images: the photography of Michael Morris

Michael Morris uses only natural light to make simple but wonderful portraits and figure studies.

Images: the photography of Michael Morris

Misha Gordin

Mischa Gordin's nightmare inducing photographs would be stunning if they were produced digitally. However, the fact that all her work is created using a traditional darkroom techniques elevates it into realm of the incredible.

Misha Gordin

This link via: Indigoblog

Photographie Noir et Blanc - Alexandre MALLER

Alexandre Maller's photos have a simple, honest look to them that I find appealing.

Photographie Noir et Blanc - Alexandre MALLER

The indefatigable Antonio brings us this link to Russian photographer Vadim Rigin. Although you have to sort through a good deal of traditional glamour photography, there are some gems hidden in the 12 galleries of "erotic" photographs.

Vadim Rigin

David Plakke Photography

Here's a rarity, David Plakke uses a pinhole camera for figure photography. The necessarily long exposure times create some very interesting effects.

David Plakke Photography

fine art nude photography by Ian Scrivener

OK, that's enough about my personal life and friends. Here's some nice work by Austrailian photographer Ian Scrivener.

fine art nude photography by Ian Scrivener

Hey, speaking of new baby's, let me introduce mine! I took my own advice and went on down to proud Papa Andrew's store and did my part towards his diaper bills. Yep, I've officially moved up to medium format with an old but sweet Pentax 645. Early Christmas for me.

Camera Traders - Used Cameras & Equipment

Congratulations to Sarah & Andrew on the birth of their second son! Born this Monday morning and tentatively named Jasper.

Sarah is one of my favourite models and dearest friends (that's her above). Her husband Andrew, is also a good friend and owner of a great camera store. He's got an excellent online inventory, and now he's got two sons to feed, so go to his website and buy that Leica you've been wanting.

Camera Traders - Used Cameras & Equipment

e c c e n t r i s :::: Haute Future :::: Photography by SACHA DEAN BIYAN

Antonio wrote to tell me that he'd been completely blown away by Eccentris, photographer Sacha Dean Biyan's ultra stylish showcase of his fashion and beauty photography. Although I don't generally feature fashion photographers on this blog, Eccentris is a tour de force of high style and cutting edge flash web design. It has more credits than some movies I've watched! Check it out.

e c c e n t r i s :::: Haute Future :::: Photography by SACHA DEAN BIYAN

Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam

Paul Smith, British photographer and master image manipulator creates some seriously unsettling imagery.

Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam

#6700098 :: photography :: eng.ver

From: "You're Looking For Life"
Takaci Hirano

Takaci Hirano's strangely beautiful photographs are the exact opposite of Nobuyoshi Araki's. Rather than objectifying the feminine, his photos are love poems to his geeky but adorable art student girlfriends. He obsessively documents their every activity from the most mundane to the most intimate, and the results are extraordinary. I don't know what it is about this site but I had to view nearly ever image in each of the fairly large portfolios. Mesmerizing.

#6700098 :: photography :: eng.ver

via: Indie Nudes

P A S C A L B A E T E N S - P h o t o g r a p h y

From the Chess Cafe series
Pascal Baetens

"After a classic, intellectual education, Pascal Baetens chose to develop his artistic creativity and became a photographer. He has been realising portrait, glamour, fashion and travel assignments for editorial, commercial and private clients. His collection of subtle black & white nudes lead to the books 'The fragile touch' and 'Allegro sensibile' and numerous publications and exhibitions throughout Europe. "

P A S C A L   B A E T E N S   -   P h o t o g r a p h y

This is yet another fine link brought to us via regular contributor Antonio Thanks as always Antonio! Hey, I think you've more that earned a spot in the permanent links section, don't you? Check it out. MB

The Massive Dev Chart: B/W Film Development Times, Processing Data

The Massive Development Chart is an invaluable resource for black & white users who do their own processing. This online tool allows you to cross reference any film against any developer to determine the correct processing time. Let's say you've got a roll of Ilford SP816T police surveillance film and a fresh batch of Amaloco AM74 developer. This would be the place to find out that it would take 8 minutes to process your film at the standard 20 degrees. True darkroom geek heaven.

Plus there's tons of extra information about push processing, discontinued films, you name it. Bookmark this one.

The Massive Dev Chart: B/W Film Development Times, Processing Data

SexyCrazyHollywood | Travelling Photography Exhibit

Here's a group exhibit entitled, CRAZY SEXY HOLLYWOOD.

"The show brings together six of Los Angeles' finest contemporary photographers in a collection curated by Carlos (Batts) himself. Patrick Hoelck, Estevan Oriol, Rick Castro, Dave Naz, Steve Diet Goedde and Batts present a total of fifty works that pay tribute to the looks, attitudes, glamour and grittiness that make Hollywood what it is. Hardly a photojournalistic journey, CRAZY SEXY HOLLYWOOD looks beyond the landmarks and celebrities, to the patchwork of souls, personas and styles that make this unique city what it is."

CrazySexyHollywood | Travelling Photography Exhibit:

Images and Ideas - The Ryerson Kodak Lecture Series

Time for a little deep thought here at Art Nudes. A friend sent me this link to the Ryerson Kodak Lecture Series and I thought I'd share.

"Materials from more than 100 presentations from the archive of the Kodak
Lecture Series held in the collections of the Mira Godard Study Centre
were digitized to create a multimedia Web site with images, text and
audio clips. The Web site includes biographical information, images of
the artists and their work, interviews and excerpts from the
presentations. A database allows the user to search the presentations
according to speaker, practice, keyword, and year of the lecture."

Images and Ideas - The Ryerson Kodak Lecture Series

"I want to create my own history for my photographs and then be a part
of that history."

Images and Ideas - John Gossage

Bellydancers and Harem Girls

In keeping with the vintage theme today, here's two galleries interpreting the mystique of the Orient from late 19th and early 20th century points of view. The first gallery is strictly fantasy, consisting of European models dressed in costumes. The second gallery features what were put forth as "travel" or "documentary" images in their day and feature actual ethnic models. However, these are in many ways equally fanciful and contrived and clearly served to tittilate the Victorian viewer.

Belly Dancer's and Harem Girls-Erotica Gallery

Bellydancers and Harem Girls - The Real Thing Gallery

This fine link was found via The Indigo Blog

Tallulahs Nude Poses Menu

This one's a repeat, but it's a worthwhile one. As a photographer it's often difficult to find great poses for your models. If you have that problem, it always pays to try out some of the classics. Here's a great collection of vintage poses that are just begging for a contemporary treatment.

Tallulahs Nude Poses

PHOTOLOGY - Nobuyoshi Araki

"Tokyo Nostalgia", 1997
Cibachrome Print, cm 60x40

Love him or hate him, and believe me there's plenty of people in both camps, Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan's best known photographers. His nudes have a desperation and perversity that is genuinely unpleasant. This isn't to say that they aren't good. Eroticism or glamour isn't the intent of these images, rather they seem to be reports from hell issued by a damned soul.

Critic Monty DiPietro has written a beautiful essay of the complicated and conflicting emotions he experienced while reviewing Araki's work. I definitely recommend reading this one if you want some kind of an understanding of Araki's overall body of work.

Nobuyoshi Araki at the Hara Museum

Tokyo Nostalgia

PHOTOLOGY - Nobuyoshi Araki

Lately though Araki's work has taken a very different turn. His subject matter is now flowers and cats instead of prostitutes. Do they symbolize redemption or something different? Again, to understand Araki, I recommend visiting his offical website and finding out where he's at now.

Nobuyoshi Araki official homepage

Photographie Jacques BARIS

Hey Antonio! I finally found the link to Jacques BARIS, and it was worth it.

Artists :: Alvin Booth

Here are six series by the incredible Alvin Booth. Each gallery contains multiple images and sometimes multiple pages. While you shouldn't miss any of them, the Corpus series is my favourite. Booth is takes his photography that one step further, presenting it in non traditional formats such as stereo viewing boxes, small hand made frames hung in grids of multiple images or in glass vitrines like Victorian entomological specimens.

Artists like this are few and far between. This is one for the permalinks section.

Artists :: Alvin Booth

Moritz Gallery ... Donald Moritz

"Standing Nude, 1992"

Donald B. Moritz is both a photographer of considerable talent, and also the curator/owner of the Moritz Gallery which specializes in fine art photography.

Donald Moritz

Lucien Clergue

"Caco at Montparnasse I, 1975"
Lucien Clergue

"Lucien Clergue was born in Arles, France in 1934. He began studying photography when he was 15 years old and in 1953, he began his career as the first to photograph Picasso in the Roman arena at Arles. His friendship with the master continued until Picasso’s death in 1973. During these years, Picasso guided him, and introduced him to significant artists such as Jean Cocteau. Clergue collaborated with Cocteau for many years and had influential relationships with such renowned individuals as Edward Weston, Manitas de Plata and the Matador, El Cordobes."

There are seven pages to this gallery of Clergue's work, but the links are easy to miss at the very bottom of the pages.

Lucien Clergue

NELSON GARRIDO

Well, I'm back from the land of big trucks, big men and big meals. So I'll start blogging again with the work of photographer Nelson Garrido. This photographer constructs elaborate tableaus using religious and art historical themes. I've always had a soft spot for symbolist and allegorical photos, but rarely do you see them done with such a sense of humour.

NELSON GARRIDO

FOTOMUSEUM.DE - Forum für Fotografie im Internet

I'm off to South Texas for a week, so this will be the last post until next Saturday. Therefore, I thought I'd better leave you with something exceptional to keep you busy until I return. So here's a gallery with over 70 fantastic photographers.

FOTOMUSEUM.DE

Thanks to regular contributor Antonio for this one. Antonio's personal favourite pick from this list is Marlo Broekmans (That's her work above.)

See you in a week.

Melani Gillis - Fine Art

Completing a trifecta of talented woman artists, here is Canadian photographer Melani Gillis.

Melani Gillis - Fine Art

Elizabeth Opalenik - photographic artist

Elizabeth Opalenik
Elizabeth Opalenik - photographic artist

Karin Rosenthal

Although the "nude on the rocks/in the water" is one of the most overused cliches of figure photography, Karin Rosenthal still manages to create work that is almost sublime in its perfection. Beautiful stuff.

Karin Rosenthal thumbnails

Jerry Avenaim Photography :: Fine Art Galleries

Between shooting Hollywood celebrities for major publications and hanging around in internet photo forums giving friendly advice to less experienced (or talented) photographers, Jerry Avenaim somehow finds time to produce some really fun nudes.

Jerry Avenaim Photography :: Fine Art Galleries

PhotoForum.ru

Here is a Russian based photo forum similar to Photosig. Like all public forums, the work isn't all stellar, but if you dig deep you can find some gems.

PhotoForum.ru

Classic Camera Links Page

Today I was shooting some film through an old No. 1 Pocket Kodak, Series II camera that belonged to my girlfriend's grandparents. It actually takes 120 film, so it will be interesting to see the results. Anyway, it got me thinking about vintage photography, so here is a link for you. The VintEdge gallery contains no less than 470 vintage nudes.

Art Create:Fine art nudes: Tamaki Obuchi

Japanese photographer Tamaki Obuchi brings a distinctly feminine touch to her figure photography. Here are two different galleries of this artist's work.

sensuous line: Tamaki Obuchi

artcreate.com: Tamaki Obuchi

Wilhelm Von Gloeden

Another classic, this time one of the earliest pioneers of gay photography, German baron, Wilhelm Von Gloeden (1856 - 1931).

Wilhelm Von Gloeden

Photography-Peter Fetterman Gallery : Ruth Bernhard

Spanish Dancer, 1971
Gelatin Silver Print

It's time for a return to the classics with a great gallery of work by one of the 20th century's master photographers, Ruth Bernhard.

Peter Fetterman Gallery : Ruth Bernhard

Dominic Rouse

Photographer Dominic Rouse pays homage to Rene Magritte in these clearly surrealist inspired works.

Dominic Rouse

Tony Ward Photography

Whether he is producing his own fine art work, shooting fashion for various avante garde magazines, or producing erotica/porn for Penthouse magazine as he has since 1996, Tony Ward always maintains his signature edgy style.

Tony Ward Photography

petatrix - sinnliche photographie - sensuous photography

It's always really gratifying for me to hear from visitors to this site, and especially so when they are fellow photographers. Here's the site of ArtNudes reader Peter Stenzel, from Vienna, Austria. Working under the name Petatrix, he produces some excellent work using projections on his models.

petatrix - sinnliche photographie - sensuous photography

Insolations : photographies à demi-mots de Gardabelle

Some very moody, very French, work by Gardabelle. Enjoy!

Insolations : photographies à demi-mots de Gardabelle

ALTphotos.com

Here's a new online photo community that looks as though it might have potential.

"Why another photo community? Are you an amateur or professional photographer? Do people tell you that your work is amazing? What are you doing with your work?

This is not another camera club site for pretty sunset pictures or cheesy photoshop work. We are a community of photographers, professional and amateur, who look for more than the average in photography.

If you are working in 35mm, medium format, large format, instant film or digital and are looking for a home for your body of work then you are at the right place. If you are a collector of photographs, photographic books or cameras you will find people who share your interests."

ALTphotos.com:

Ruth Litoff - Artist's Galleries

Silent Scream
collaged film strips
Ruth Litoff

Ruth Litoff is not limited to one single approach to her work. As an artist she is really versatile in her technique and themes, She uses black and white or colour, and she produces diptychs, collages, assemblage work, contact prints, etc, etc. all of it elegant and beautiful.

Ruth Litoff - Artist's Galleries

The Sensuous Line Mark Hamilton Photography

Today, regular contributor Antonio offers up this link to photographer Mark Hamilton. I really like the effect he gets from multiple exposures, it gives his photos a dreamy, ghostlike quality yet manages to avoid gimmicky cliches.

The Sensuous Line Mark Hamilton Photography

Jason Salavon - Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades

Jason SalavonEvery Playboy Centerfold, The 1970s (normalized) 2002
Digital C-print
60" x 29.5". Ed. 5 + 2 APs.

"The photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning Jan. 1960 through Dec. 1999. This tracks, en masse, the evolution of this form of portraiture."

Jason Salavon - Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades

Don't forget to check out the other work of this interesting digital artist Jason Salavon

David Piercey Photography and Design

David Piercey is a Victoria BC photographer and a friend of mine. His work has a delicate sensibility and a subtlety that's often lacking in figure photography.

David Piercey Photography and Design

Silvereye, Guido Argentini

Here is some fine work by professional photographer Guido Argentini. I find the work in his "erotic" gallery strongly reminscent of Helmut Newton.

Silvereye

Thanks Antonio!

Czech and Slovak Staged Photographs

Vasil Stanko
The Meeting of the Poor People in Paris, 1989

I'm off to Las Vegas again today, so no new posts till Thursday at least. In the meantime, here's a link to a fantastic group exhibit of Czech & Slovak photographers.

Czech and Slovak Staged Photographs

33images

Jay Gumm really works his images using both digital and traditional manipulation to give his images a beautifully distressed look. He's also one of the relatively rare figure photographers that work exclusively with male models. Great stuff.

33images

dNET ||| Patrick Demarchelier ||| Photographs

World reknowned fashion & beauty photographer Patrick Demarchelier, is also a truly great fine art figure photographer. Of course, having an army of assistants, a practically unlimited budget and the world's greatest supermodels to work with can't hurt! This link goes to his official website.

Patrick Demarchelier Photographs

As always, thanks for the link suggestion Antonio!

Album Ana Casas Broda

Ana Casas Broda
Diet Journals

The work of Ana Casas Broda is intensely personal and broad reaching without ever becoming self-indulgent or moralistic. Her photos and text explore self image, family relationships, memory and nationality in equal measure. Amazing stuff.

"Since we left for Mexico I often return to Vienna to see Omama, my grandmother. I immerse myself in the albums as if they hide a secret, the key to some mystery.

I can’t tell the difference between the photographs and my memories. I don’t know anymore if I constructed them from the images."

Album Ana Casas Broda

Indie Nudes

Good news, your blog host now has real life gallery representation. Last night was the grand opening of the Fine Forum gallery and I'm proud to say that three of my pieces are on display. If you happen to be in Victoria BC, the gallery is located in Fan Tan Alley in Chinatown, drop in and have a look.

Also, I've just found out that this blog has been linked to by Indie Nudes This has given me a nice spike in my traffic. So, if you're coming here via Indie Nudes, welcome! Don't forget to explore the archives for lots more posts.

Radikale Ästhetisierung!

ET IN ARCADIA EGO
Oleg Maslov and Viktor Kuznetsov

Radikale Ästhetisierung!

le premier festival international d'oeuvres érotiques de Montréal

Call for Submissions-Montreal Festival of Erotic Art

I received an invitation to submit work to this show and thought I'd post it here for anyone who might be interested. Please note, I don't know anything about the organizer and my posting it here should not be construed as an endorsement.

le premier festival international d'oeuvres érotiques de Montréal

the melancholy rhino

Paul Roylance of Melancholyrhino.com is not only a photographer of considerable skill, but he also has website that makes me very jealous AND maintains a fine blog. By all means visit his site and do some exploring.

the melancholy rhino

Margi Geerlinks

In Margi Geerlinks' series "Crafting Humanity" the body becomes a malleable putty that can be shaped and modified at will. The results are both unsettling and engaging.

Margi Geerlinks