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I think I'll end 2004 with a post of one of my favourite Japanese photographers. Ao Gunji's work has an almost documentary look to it and the use of natural light creates a calm and comfortable feeling.

Ao Gunji

Happy New Year to all of you and the best for 2005!

John Stevenson Gallery

Michal Macku
Gellage #75, 1996
Silver gelatin collage from film emulsion transfers

The John Stevenson Gallery in New York City is one of the better galleries devoted to photographic art. Here's a selection of four of their exhibits which feature figurative work.

Ophelia's Garden by Josephine Sacabo

Gellages by Michal Macku

Everything Cool : Images On, In, and Under Water by Various Artists

Photo Collages by Elizabeth Opalenik, Chris Pekoc, Vincent Serbin, Hugh Shurley

[ Nemo Nox ]

Ex-patriate Brazilian Nemo Nox is a multi-talented guy. His skills include writing, television production and of course photography. For his Cave Woman series, he juxtaposes paleolithic (or is it neolithic?) imagery with figure photography.

[ Nemo Nox ]

This link suggested by my friend Mariana of gatochy's blog

Nana Watanabe

Sadly this gallery only has 3 images of this stunning work by Japanese photographer Nana Watanabe. If any finds more, let me know.

Nana Watanabe

This link found at my favourite photoblog, Xupacabras

Toni Catany

Another Spanish photographer, Toni Catany

Toni Catany

Rafael Navarro

Spanish photographer Rafael Navarro

Rafael Navarro

Models Directory

One of the biggest challenges facing figure photographers is finding models. There are lots of online modeling forums and "talent agencies" out there on the web, but here's my pick of the top three.

OneModelPlace.com
is huge and very popular, but frankly I've had nothing but frustration trying to sign up and contact models due to being a Mac user. Still, this is THE site for most people.

Musecube.com
is smaller, but still has 65,909 portfolios online, and is free and easy to join.

FreelanceModels.com is another free, easily searchable and well populated modeling site.

Have fun!

How to Do Anything Photographic ? 2004 Ken Rockwell

Get that cool new camera that you wanted for Christmas? Planning on making a new years resolution to shoot more in 2005? Then you may want to visit this page. Photographer Ken Rockwell has put together an informational page rathering ambitiously entitled "How to do anything photographic". The page includes lots of helpful information on photographic basics, discussions on digital cameras, film types, filters, tripods, etc., etc.

How to Do Anything Photographic

eXTReMe Tracking - Art and Culture - Photography

Hey, I just noticed that yesterday 2437 people visited this humble blog. That's the highest single day visitation in the nearly 2 years I've been doing this. Thanks folks!

emil schildt Photographer

Speaking of old favourites, Danish photographer Emil Schildt is right near the top of my personal list. So I was disappointed to find that the link I had bookmarked for his website now leads to an art school page. (I think it's possibly the school Emil teaches at.) Anyway, using Google, I was able to find this gallery of his work at usefilm.com. It'll do in a pinch, but the images are small and it doesn't have as much content as his old private page.

If anyone can help me out with a link for Emil's new webpage (if he has one) or any information about what happened, please leave me a note in the comments section.

I might not get a chance to post again before the 25th, so happy holidays everyone!

Artists :: Alvin Booth

Time to revisit an old favourite. Alvin Booth presents many of his exquisite images in groupings in handmade metal frames. This is really great stuff, and I've found few other artists whose work grabbed me the way Booth's work does.

Alvin Booth

Jean Jacques Andre Photography

Jean Jacques Andre has been photographing nudes for over fifty years. His work ranges from straight forward figure studies to complex photomontages. It's a wonderful and broad scope and it's fascinating to observe how the models and the artistic style evolve and change over such an extended time.

I know JJ personally, and he is the man that inspired me to take up figure photography. So I'm delighted that he's finally got a website to show off a small sampling of the images he's created over the past five decades so I can feature it here on this blog. Don't miss this one!

Jean Jacques Andre Photography

the HOMELAND SECURITY Collection

Funny, witty and provocative work by activist artist/photographer/filmmaker/animator John Douglas

"Isolationism, vulnerability, cold steel, human flesh, and latent violence seethe in “Homeland Security” .... the latest provocative series of photographs from the veteran Charlotte multi-media creator. Sporting an M16 and nothing else, Douglas appears in this series of images as a literal “one-man army” -- duplicated photographically and armed to the teeth in a procession of tableaus that confront the power and impotence of firepower."

the HOMELAND SECURITY Collection

Corps Partag?s | Pascal Tarraire

Here's an online book in Flash format of French photographer Pascal Tarraine's work. He does nice black and white work with a subtle but distinctively European feel.

Corps Partages | Pascal Tarraire

Dan Nelken

Just a quick look at Dan Nelken's Bathtub Series. Only a few nudes here, but as a whole it's a nice collection.
No image here because he has the images on his site sliced so they can't be easily downloaded.

Dan Nelken

Fine Art Nudes Kyoto - Home Page

I'm off to Las Vegas again, this time for a whole week. Therefore, I'm going to leave you all with the motherload of photography sites. Fine Art Nudes Kyoto has galleries of over 200 photographers, including myself and Art Nudes contributing editor Eric Kellerman. (We're both in Gallery #3) Hopefully this link will keep you busy till I can get back to blogging.

Fine Art Nudes Kyoto - Home Page

Robert Nofikow

Be sure and check out the work of Polish photographer Robert Nofikow.
(Site requires Flash)

Robert Nofikow

Yaromir.com - Jaromir Mlynski - Photography - Graphics

The mysterious Jaromir Mlynski doesn't reveal much about himself on his webpage, not even where he's located. However, if you visit his site you will be rewarded with some interesting photography. Don't forget to check out his drawings too.

Jaromir Mlynski - Photography - Graphics

Juul de Vries

Juul de Vries does the impossible by producing hand-coloured nudes that avoid all the cliches, and that I actually like!

Juul de Vries

This link via naen

www.ENdesign.ro - Elena Netea Webdesign, Photography, 3D graphic

Time for another profile of one of the talented readers of this blog. This time, it's Romanian photographer, webdesigner and digital artist Elena Netea.

Thanks for writing Elena!

www.ENdesign.ro - Elena Netea

2004 Weblog Awards: Best Photo Blog

Hey everyone, Art Nudes contributing editor, Brooks Ayola has his Blog entered in the running for the 2004 Weblog Awards: Best Photo Blog competition. I encourage you all to go follow the link below and vote for Brooks!

2004 Weblog Awards: Best Photo Blog

Yuri Dojc Photographer

I received a nice note this morning from well known Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc so I thought it was time to feature him again. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Yuri has been in Canada for over 30 years and has made a name for himself as a successful commercial and fine art photographer.

When visiting his website, be sure and check out the "In Print" section to see a selection of work from his books.

Yuri Dojc Photographer

You may also want to check out Yuri's Blog for a glimpse into his personal life.

MITSUO SUZUKI

The work of Japanese photographer Mitsuo Suzuki is both beautiful and subtle. Highly recommended.

MITSUO SUZUKI

Sandrine HERMAND-GRISEL - Photographe - Index

Simple but interesting black and white work by French photographer Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

fa projects

Maria Magdalena #2 (Judean Desert)
2003, C-Print
Israeli photographer Noel Jabbour.

"In this series of photographs, Jabbour takes as her source the legend of Saint Mary Magdalene. Over the last two years, the artist has photographed herself in key places that feature within the legend of the saint; the lake at Galilee where Mary anointed Christ’s feet, the River Jordan and Saint-Baume, near Marseille, where she lived in isolation after fleeing with the Christian community after the Crucifixion. Depicting herself as the saint at seven key stages of Mary Magdalene’s life, she uses the self-portraits as an exploration of her Christian heritage and as a comment on wider issues."

The link to images is at the very bottom of the page

Noel Jabbour at fa projects

This link via: Indie Nudes

Tallulahs Vintage Nude Pose Files- Classical Nudes

I've always had a soft spot for vintage nudes and Tallulahs.com has an impressive archive of images. I regularly draw inspiration for poses from some of these classics.

Tallulahs Vintage Nude Pose Files- Classical Nudes

Michael BARNES

I'm pleased to report that a gallery of my work has been added to the Fine Art Nudes Kyoto website. This popular and well designed website is run by Japanese photographer Tsutomu Otsuka.

Michael BARNES

Micha?l David Andr?

More SX70 work, only this time considerably more disturbing and dark.
Michael David Andre uses optical and magnifying lens in front of the camera lens to create nightmarishly distorted images.

Michael David Andre

This link via: Conscientious

Czech and Slovak Staged Photographs

Autumn Psychotherapy and Other Experiences #36, 1988
Artist: Kamil Varga

Here's an interesting exhibition of 12 different Czech & Slovac photographers who all work in the "Staged Photography" style. As this is something I'm become more interested in for my own work, I thought this would be the perfect time to post this link.

From the introduction:

"Staged photography is one of the most creative uses of the medium. Everything comes from the mind of the artist and has to be constructed to be photographed-especially for those working in the studio who begin with a blank slate (there are no references to time or place). Because of the way the artists work, this kind of photography has ties to theatre and dance, sculpture, "happenings," and literature. Photography is particularly well suited to producing narrative fictions because on some level we believe in them, and because they are always out of context-the viewer is invited to weave the "before" and "after" sections of the story themselves."

Czech and Slovak Staged Photographs

Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev

There is some really very good work here from this Russian artist. Look under Sensuality for a sequence of nude 'retro' poses of style and elegance.
Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev

Marco Barsanti Photography

Nice, tasteful work by Italian photographer Marco Barsanti. I only wish there were more images on his site.

Marco Barsanti Photography

Santo Barbieri

From time to time I like to feature the work of the photographers that visit this blog, and have a little "Reader Profile" this is one of those times. Santo Barbieri is a fellow Canadian who works in a broad range of subjects. For what he calls his Sensual images, he makes the interesting choice of using Polaroid SX70 film. This give the images an unusual and pleasing quality.

Santo Barbieri

The Halsted Gallery - Available Images from Edward Weston

A classic for Sunday. Imogen Cunningham.

The Halsted Gallery - Available Images from Imogen Cunningham

Wicked Swank- Main

I went to Robyn Swank's first ever solo show last night and I had an absolute blast. This work is not for all tastes, but it was so refreshing to go to a show with so little pretension and attitude. I chatted briefly with the artist and she won me over by describing her work like this: "Basically me and my friends just get really drunk, dress up like zombies and run around taking pictures." Of course, in reality it's more complicated than that. This woman really knows how to take photos and has a fine tuned aesthetic sense, but the lack of artistic B.S. was a real treat.

One of my friends bought one of her cabinets of curiousity and we all had many drinks and lots of laughs. Ms. Swank is still in her early 20s, so no doubt her work will change and mature, but right now it's got that perfect mix of experimental zeal and plain creepy fun that only young artists can pull off.

The show runs until Nov. 28th at the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, 2516 Douglas St., Victoria BC

Wicked Swank- Main

Brigitte Carnochan Photography

Some beautiful handpainted work to be found here. And more.

Brigitte Carnochan

Fotostudio in Heidelberg Fotograf Mannheim Frankfurt Aktfotografie Hochzeit Portraitfoto

German photographer Konrad Gös

heidelfoto.de

Piotr Kowalik Photography

Some exceptionally fine work by expatriate Polish photographer Piotr Kowalik, who now lives and works in London, England.

Piotr Kowalik Photography

Voelker Nudes

I've finally finished the new web site for Christopher Voelker's nude work. It's called, well, Voelker Nudes. It was hard to choose a photo to put up here because I've been looking at these pictures for a long time, many of them for years. I still love the mirror series from a few years back though. Chris has a dark style and although you may see some of the clichés that were mentioned in an earlier post, I think Chris does them justice.

Voelker Nudes

You might also want to see Chris' commercial and non-nude work at his main site Voelker Studio.

Well I'm off to Las Vegas again (for work, not pleasure) so no posts til the weekend at least. In the meantime, I encourage you to check out some of the links on the left side of this page. There are some great photographers and lots of other worthwhile links such as my biggest referrer, Indie Nudes or Gatochy's Blog who has been sending me a ton of links lately.

See you next week!

Mary Boone Gallery - Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

May Ling Su (Clothed/Nude) (1/3)
58" by 88" (2)
photograph
2004

A small selection of images from celebrity portraitist and art star Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' series, "Thinking XXX", which features side by side images of 30 adult film stars both clothed and nude. He's turned the project into an exhibit, a book, and even a film complete with a separately marketed sound track.

Mary Boone Gallery-Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Here's the official website of the project.

Thinking XXX

images composees

Some nice black & white work with an emphasis on montage by French photographer Maury Perseval

images composees

SHEDWORKS - uncommon scenes

Photo by Georg Guillemin

No less than 34 different photographers' work can found at the SHEDWORKS webpage. A large proportion of the photos are of the "industrial erotica" school, (this means naked girls in decaying buildings.) Not my favourite style, but there are a few gems here if you explore.

SHEDWORKS - uncommon scenes

This link compliments of my friend Mariana at Gatochy's Blog

Ralph Man Photography

Some fine work by German photographer Ralph Man. Too bad he has such a frustrating website. Flash slide shows that aren't controllable by the viewer are one of my pet peeves.

Ralph Man Photography

Stefan Beyst & Virgil Brill

Stefan Beyst has written an essay on the photos of a 'neo-pictorialist', Virgil Brill. From there, it's easy to find your way to Brill's site.
Stefan is also author of a nearly complete internet book called 'The Erotic Eye and Its Nude'. It's packed with photos, reasonably enough.

Stefan Beyst's essay on Brill

No implicit judgement of any sort is attached to my posting this link.

index

Some highly polished work by fashion photographer Ranjit Grewal.

Ranjit Grewal

This link via: conceptjunkies

"Completely Naked is a London based artistic partnership created by Claire Ward-Thornton and Pau Ros in November 1999.

Specialized in interactive installations, we explore live arts, visual, digital and time-based languages and our ideas are based on a curiosity for human behaviour from individual to collective responses."

Lots of high concept work from this collaborative duo.

Completely Naked

Bare Naked Gallery - Photographs by Joris Van Daele

No less than 25 galleries of straight forward black and white figure work by prolific Canadian photographer Joris Van Daele

Bare Naked Gallery - Photographs by Joris Van Daele

Ellen von Unwerth

Ellen von Unwerth, From Original Sin, 1998-99

OK, this is one of the very rare occassions where I'll put aside my personal preference and post according to popular opinion. I've never cared for Ellen von Unwerth's work. The whole light-weight erotic fantasies of the rich and beautiful thing leaves me cold. However, I've received many emails over the past year suggesting that I post some of her work, so here you go. (It must be that election I hear is going on South of here that's got me feeling all democratic...)

Feel free to tell me how mistaken I am, and how great Ms. von Unwerth's work really is in the comments section.

Ellen von Unwerth

Lorraine Daley Photography

American photographer Lorraine Daley

Lorraine Daley Photography

120in620

For anyone interested in using vintage cameras here's a cool article with easy step by step instructions for converting 120 film reels for use in a 620 format camera.

120in620

This link found at Conscientious

[] colin blakley photography []

My Lies = Wishes

Colin Blakley's imagery is fairly bleak and melancholy yet he avoids the common pitfalls and never comes across as being overwrought.

colin blakley photography

Naughty James aka Craig Cowling

Audacious art school style imagery by young British photographer Craig Cowling.

Naughty James aka Craig Cowling

Bill Kane - SupremNudes

Maybe it's just because I've always liked propaganda art, but I think Bill Kane's photos combining nudes with Russian Suprematist art motifs are very cool.

Bill Kane - SupremNudes

I'd like to put out a call to the collective brain of the various readers of this blog. My photographic mentor is looking for a publisher for a book of his fine art nude photographs and montages. His collected work spans an incredible 50 years, and is of the highest quality. While he has been featured in magazines and so forth, has never been published in book form. Now he has reached his senior years, he'd like to publish this 50 year retrospective. So, my question is this... does anyone out there know any good publishers who might be worth approaching? Canadian companies would be best, but anything North American would do. Please leave your suggestions in the comments section below. Thanks!

1000 Imagens

Thousandimages.com is a posting forum in the vein of Photosig and Photoblink but with a higher number of European photographers. As with all of this type of forum, the quality of images is inconsistent, but it overall it appears to be well above average.

1000 Imagens

Thanks again to Gatochy who along with this link, just sent me a whole bunch of other ones.

Michael Barnes Photography

Well, after enduring two weeks of ongoing crazyiness from the portrait sitting client from hell including 2:00 AM phone calls, claims that she never received her negs and contact sheets despite delivery notification from the courier company, and too many weird rambling emails to count. I've finally realized that trying to make money on the side by making my "art" into a commercial venture may not be worth the stress. (Brooks, I don't know how you do it!)

Anyway, tonight I'm doing a shoot with dear friend and long time model K8, (that's her above) to remind myself what I actually LIKE about taking people's pictures.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Michael Barnes Photography

Owen O'Meara Photography

Some beautiful, quiet, daylit nudes. Owen professes to having been inspired by Ruth Bernhard and the Westons.

Owen O'Meara

eikoh hosoe

Japanese master photographer, Eikoh Hosoe

Eikoh Hosoe

Additional images

This link via: Xupacabras

KATY GRANNAN

Angie & Betty, Shoeneck Creek, Nazarath, PA (Sugar Camp Road Series), 2003, C-print

Don't miss the "additional images" link below the first gallery.

Katy Grannan

Not many nudes on this site, but lovely work all the same. Dan Burkholder is a master of platinum printing, with prices to match.

Dan Burkholder

Gallery of IVes Noir

Moody & minimalist work by photographer Ives Noir.

Gallery of IVes Noir

Thanks to the lovely and talented webmistress of gatochy's blog for this and several other links I'll be posting over the next little while.

Eric Kellerman

I hope Michael will forgive me for some shameless self-promotion – I've just updated my website.

Eric Kellerman

Barend Houtsmuller

Barend Houtsmuller's nudes are smooth and quiet. That's good in my book. He uses interiors well.

Barend Houtsmuller

Fine arts photography-Christopher John Ball, BA (Hons), M.A.

UK Photographer, Christopher John Ball

Christopher John Ball

Gunter Knop

Unfortunately many of the images in this gallery are a little small for my liking, but you'll definitely get the idea. Günter Knop doesn't shoot what you would call "from the hip." Many of his images involve large set pieces like the photo above and the images are very posed and deliberate. Being an advertising photographer myself, this appeals to me a bit. I can appreciate what must go into making these images. The web site for this gallery, is a bit confusing (and in German) so I'll point you to the menu for Knop and you can click around to see what else is in there if you dare.

Günter Knop

Ernestine Ruben

Finding interesting photographers that haven't been showcased by Michael is tougher than it seems. I searched the archives for five different photographers that I wanted to post about until I found one that seemingly hasn't been posted yet. Whew! OK, Ernestine Ruben is a photographer and sculpter. I'd say more, but I'm tired and it's really about the pictures right?

Ernestine Ruben