Nice work by Alex Krivtsov. Too bad so much of his website is under construction.

Alex Krivtsov

Strong and confident work by Italian photographer Nicola Ranaldi

Nicola Ranaldi - Photographer

giovanni-nova

Although flash slide shows on a website are a personal pet peeve of mine, I'd still like to direct you to the fine work of Italian photographer Giovanni Nova for some highly polished work.

giovanni-nova

Reader Profile



Reader Raymond Ellstad sent in this link to the 13 galleries of black & white figure studies on his website. Thanks Raymond.

Figure Studies

German photographer Ingo Klemm's website features many galleries of his outdoor nudes.

Photography by Ingo Klemm

Vintage Photographs

One of my many obsessive collection habits is antique photographs. I don't pretend to have any special knowledge, I just buy what I like, usually for under $5.00. Consequently I've got boxes and boxes of old pictures of every description. Therefore, I was excited to come across the Vintage Photographs Live Journal where many people upload thier finds. Although you'll find few or no nudes here, photography enthusiasts (like me) who just like the way photos from various ages look will love this site.

Vintage Photographs

Well, I'm back and recovering from the holiday overindulgences, so let's start off with some really accomplished work by American photographer Alexander Gofayzen.

Alexander Gofayzen Fine Art Photography Galleries

To all the regular readers, occassional browsers, and first time visitors, the Art Nudes blog wishes you all the best for 2006.

Michael

Here's a couple nice galleries of work by Phil Wilde.

Phil Wilde Photography

Most of the images on Gianni Candido's website aren't nearly as disturbing as the one above, but I just had to pick this one.

Images like this always make me wonder about the conversation between the photographer and the model. "See, I've got this idea with an octopus..."

Gianni Candido

High quality, romantic style work by American photographer Marianne McCoy.

Marianne McCoy Photography

A small gallery of stripey nudes by Georgio Stashov

Georgio Stashov

Call for Submissions

Artist working in all mediums whose work deals with the nude who are looking for an exhibit venue may want to check out the Unclad exhibit. They are accepting submissions until January 13, 2006.

UncladArt.com

Here's an excellent interactive flash page showing step by step the retouching secrets used on those magazines you always see in the grocery store. Although this is meant for the worthy purpose of bettering girl's self-image, it will also be of interest to photographers looking for retouching techniques. Completely contradictory purposes maybe, but true nonetheless.

Retouching Demo

Our First Award!

For reasons unknown to me, this blog has always had a large following amongst Portuguese speaking readers from both Portugal and Brazil. Therefore, it's only appropriate that our first award comes from the Portuguese website, "Square of the Republic in Beja" who have honoured this site by awarding it the gold in the International Blog category.

Thank you!

Here's badly mangled Google translation of http://pracadarepublica.weblog.com.pt

Every now and then I rediscover an old favourite whose site I haven't visited in too long. French photographer Ernesto Timor is one of them. This prolific photographer is constantly reinventing and updating his website, so even after a few months odds are that there will be lots of new material.

Ernesto Timor

This link via conceptjunkies

Longtime visitors to this blog will know that I'm a fan of several Japanese photographers. Therefore, I was delighted to receive an email from Takaci Hirano this morning telling me that after hearing about it on this blog, he'd gone to Tokyo to visit Suzuki & Gunji's exibition Duo Tone. He met up with them and had a good talk about photography and this blog. It's very satisfying when I hear stories about real world connections and results happening because of what I post here. Especially when it's on the other side of the world from where I live!

Anyway, Takaci also wanted to let me know that his own exhibition is opening in Osaka next week. Please see below for details, and if you can get to Osaka, go see this show.

Takaci Hirano Photo Exibition
"You're Looking For Life -2005"
Dec.21st 2005-Jan.23rd 2006

"One Plus 1 Gallery"
Nakazaki3-2-1, Kita-ku, Osaka-city, Osaka,
Japan,530-0016

People who want information in English, can contact Takaci Hirano himself by e-mail at "takacihirano@bc.boo.jp".

Visit Takaci's website at:

#6700098 Takaci Hirano Photography :: eng.ver.

Dutch photographer Hans van der Kamp has been producing interesting black and white portraits for thirty years. His topic range from the great 1970s, Rockers series, to members of the contemporary sexual subculture.

Hans van der Kamp - Photographs

Reader Profile

Art Amoureux is joint venture between Amia Novoa and Charles I Letbetter. Charles is a relatively new regular here and has been very active in the comments section. Welcome Charles and thanks for participating.

Art Amoureux

Start Photo is an online photo art community for photography education, photo critiques and information. Although I didn't have time to dig into it, these photo forums are how I got started talking photography on the internet, so I'll always have a soft spot for them.

The above photo is from Norbert Guthier's feature gallery, Type 55.

Start Photo

This link, and the link below thanks to Heiko of sinnenflut.de

www.ClausRose.de: Konzeptionelle Aktfotografie, Beauty, Erotik, Mode, Portrait, Werbung

Sorry things have been slow around here. It's busy days in the real world thanks to the Christmas season. Here's German photographer Claus Rose.

www.ClausRose.de: Konzeptionelle Aktfotografie, Beauty, Erotik, Mode, Portrait, Werbung

Nice, clean and minimalist work by Vietnamese born, American photographer Long Nguyen. The simple side scrolling website suits his work, but I wish the images were larger.

Long Nguyen photography

DISCUSSION POINT

I'm going to try introducing "Discussion Point" as a new, irregular feature on this blog. It's great when a post causes a flood of comments and opinions, so periodically I'll post an opinion or question and throw it out to all of you for your two cents. I know there is a least one of you (yes, I'm talking about you Eric) that thrive on this stuff, so we'll see how it goes.

Our first Discussion Point is a doozy. I recently received an email informing me I'd overlooked posting the work of David Hamilton. In fact, I hadn't overlooked it, I've just deliberatly choosen not to post it. However, that got me thinking about the issues around Hamilton, Jock Sturges and Sally Mann and why I don't post them here. (WARNING: A Google image search for any of these photographers will return photos with underage models).

Sally Mann, Jock Sturges and David Hamilton all use young models and have been soundly criticized and vilified for it. Personally, I think Mann's and Sturges' work has artistic merit, whereas Hamilton is all about titillation. I also just plain don't like the look of Hamilton's photos. They've got a very dated 1970's Penthouse feel that just adds to their overall lack of appeal.

If you are not familiar with him, here's a brief (and unillustrated) biography

What do you think about these photographers and Hamilton in particular?

Here's a nice blog-style portfolio in both Russian and English, complete with photoshop tutorials by photographer Roge.

Roge Photo Home

My friend and photo mentor, Jean Jacques Andre has updated his website with the results of a summer spent in the South of France with some very lithe looking French models. Nice way to spend your retirement JJ!

Look for new work in the 2005 gallery and the Myths & Legends.

Jean Jacques Andre Photography

I was really pleased today to hear from one of my favourite photographers, John Casado. John wrote to let me know that his long awaited book has finally come out. It looks beautiful, and is limited to 1000 casebound, signed copies and the $48.00 US price seems extremely reasonable. Seems like a good Christmas present to me. You can buy a copy through his website using Paypal.

I encourage you all to go check it out and support one of our most talented readers.

John Casado - Fine Art Photography

Tomas Trman Rucker produces some very fine work, including some interesting edge lit images like the example above.

TRMAN

This link, like so many others over the past couple of years is thanks to a certain very prolific Portuguese blogger named Mariana. Every month this amazing lady has sent me dozens of links to choose from. I don't use all of them, but even so, I've still got lots of them bookmarked for future posting. I try to thank her regularly, but if I did with everyone of the links I use it would get pretty repetitious. Therefore, I've decided to thank her for all her hard work and continued dedication to this blog by naming her Honourary Editor. Thanks for everything Mariana!

Time to feature another of our talented readers. This time, it's American photographer Charles Bandes

Charles Bandes

There are a lot of talented photographers out there, but very few of them produce work that truly enters into the realm of the sublime. Arno Rafael Minkkinen is one of those few. In my opinion, there isn't a photographer alive that produces images of the nude in the environment as good as Minkkinen's. Don't miss the work of this master.

Arno Rafael Minkkinen

French photographer Joseph Auquier wrote and directed me to his website. Frankly, I'm not crazy about the wild colour manipulation on several of his galleries, but much of his other work is well worth checking out.

chapelle exposition Auquier Fine Art Photography

Here's another of the talented readers of the blog. German photographer Matthias Peter.

Matthias Peter Photography

Here's the high style photography of Janez Vlachy. Don't forget to click "next photo" to see all the images in each series.

Janez Vlachy

Considering what a populous country India is, I see very few photographers there doing nudes. However, when I do find one, I usually really enjoy it. David De Souza is a good example. He is a professional photographer based in Mumbai, India, and he produces beautiful images.

David De Souza Photography

If anyone knows any other photographers from India I should check out, let me know in the comments.

Barend Houtsmuller

Bamvizzion Fine Art Photography

Thanks to Mariana for this link (and many others)

Humour and visual puns abound in the work of Portuguese photographer, Sal.

gal by sal.

See more of this artist's work at Our Eyes

| Wojciech Gepner | photography |

If you can navigate the unusual interface on his site, you'll find that Wojciech Gepner makes some interesting photographs

| Wojciech Gepner | photography |

letra corrida

Here's an interesting blog that I've bookmarked recently. Letra Corrida is in Portuguese, but the pictures do the talking. The webmaster, Jose features an interesting mix of photography and classical paintings. Since I've been looking at alegorical paintings for years trying to figure how interpret some of those themes into my work, I was glad to hear about this site. Sooner or later I'm definitely doing my own version of The Judgement of Paris!

letra corrida

Kenneth Eckert

I see my fellow Canadian, Yuri Dojc has discovered Flickr.

Women - a photoset on Flickr

I'm getting lots of traffic today from FHM Magazine Lithuania. If you are arriving here from there, welcome!

If anyone can translate what the link says about this blog, please let me know in the comments.

Thank you to all of you who wrote nice comments or emailed me about the recent passing of our beloved cat Suze. Your thoughts are appreciated. However, I've removed the post so I can look at this blog again without getting misty-eyed. Look for more great photography soon.

Thanks,
Michael

There is lots of variety to be found in the work of Latvian photographer Natasha Gudermane.

(Warning: People without a high speed modem may want to pass on this one, as there are over a hundred images on a single page.)

Thanks to Elena for this link.

Photos of Natasha Gudermane

"The Rape of the Sabine Women"

Ever since I visited the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, I've been thinking about how to incorporate classical themes and allegory into my work. Therefore, I was delighted to discover the work of Dutch photographer, Luc ten Klooster.

Luc ten Klooster

I've updated my website.

Eric Kellerman

Here's the delightfully disturbing work of Robert Gregory Griffeth. Happy Halloween!

. . Robert Gregory Griffeth . .

Luxembourg photographer Raymond Erbs

Raymond ERBS - Art Photographer

If you are fortunate enough to be in Tokyo during November this year, I encourage you to check out the exhibit by two of my favourite Japanese photographers, Mitsuo Suzuki and Ao Gunji.

Mitsuo Suzuki and Ao Gunji Photo Exhibition
"Duo tone"
Nov. 1 (Tue) - 30 (Wed), 2005

"The Pink Cow"
resturant & art bar
1-3-18 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
www.thepinkcow.com

Duo tone - Ao Gunji, Mitsuo Suzuki

A small gallery of diverse work by American fashion photographer, Clayton James Cubitt AKA Siege.

**Update**

I neglected to mention the very important fact that this gallery is part of a fundraising effort by the photographer to aid his family who were left homeless as a result of hurricane Katrina. Therefore I've removed the direct link to the nudes.
Please go to the front page of his fundraising site to learn how to purchase a print.

Operation Eden

Please also visit this photographer's post Katrina Operation Eden Blog

Australian photographer and long time friend of this blog, Lawrence Winder wrote to tell me that he's updated his site with some work that goes outside his previous work by including some male nudes and some political commentary.

Check it out here or go in through the front door and explore his whole site.

Russian photographer Maxim Kalmykov

Maxim Kalmykov - Kalmykoff.com

Some wonderfully unsettling work by American Bobby Neel Adams. My two favourite galleries are Couples & Age Maps.

Bobby Neel Adams

Here's Greek photographer Stelios Baklavas

Photographer Stelios Baklavas webpage

Here's the website of extremely talented American photographer and Art Nudes reader John Casacarano. Beautiful work!

CASCARANO.com Fine Art Nudes

Here's another old favourite. Everytime I do a shoot, I try for at least a few back shots, but as far as I'm concerned, no one does them as well as Russian photographer Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev. (See the Sensuality gallery.)

Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev

Thanks to the hardest working blogger I know, Mariana, for this link.

There's lots of new work on Nicole Tran Ba Vang's site since I last visited. If you haven't seen this artist before, or haven't checked her out for a while, don't miss this.

Nicole Tran Ba Vang

While self-portrait nudes are fairly common for female photographers, not many men normally engage in this. Simon Pais is the exception.

Self Portrait - a photoset on Flickr

Since both his bio and intro sections are still under development, I can't tell you much about David Gleason besides that he does both black & white and colour nudes. While he does some interesting stuff with dayglo paint in the colour section, I prefer the black and whites.

David Gleason Photography

Thanks to Antonio for this link and the Coupon link below.

Truly exceptional work by noted American photographer William Coupon. The single light set up that he uses is so simple, but in the hands of a master like this, the results are beautiful.

William Coupon

Here's some very fine work by Polish photographer Gosia Barta.

Gosia Barta

This link thanks to Mariana