Joern Stubbe Fine Art Nude Portrait Landscape Sensual Photography Leipzig Germany

German photographer Joern Stubbe

Joern Stubbe

via: Fresh Nudes

Peter van Stralen

Peter van Stralen has long been a favourite of mine for the incredible poses he manages to photograph his models in; so it was a pleasure to find this gallery of his work that I hadn't seen before.

Peter van Stralen

Kim Taylor Pit Bull Exhibition

Reader Exhibit



Art Nudes reader and editor of 180 Magazine Kim Taylor is about to have his first solo show. So if you happen to be in Hamilton, Ontario between Aug. 13 to 20th, stop in and see it!

Kim Taylor Exhibition

You can also see more of his figure work here.

Yulia's Modeling Portfolio

Both images © Michael Barnes, 2006

Sorry if posts have been a bit thin this week. I've been playing with my new Nikon D70s and processing the photographs from my shoot this past Monday with the lovely and extremely talented model Yulia.

Visit her webpage at Yulia.info

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Anastasii Mikhailov is another of the many extremely talented photographers whose work can be found at photosight.ru

OK, that's enough posting for today. I'm going to the lake!

Anastasii Mikhailov at photosight.ru

Wessel O'Connor Fine Art

Exhibit



"Wrestling Series # 4" circa 1950s
8 x 10" toned vintage gelatin silver print

Western Photography Guild
June 14 - July 28, 2006

If you are in Brooklyn before the end of the month and want to see an exhibit of vintage beefcake photography, you'll want to stop by the Wessel & O'Connor Gallery for this exhibit. Of course, if you can't make it to Brooklyn, there are 65 images in this online gallery.


Wessel + O'Connor is very pleased to announce the first ever solo gallery exhibit of the renowned 1950's era Physique photo studio Western Photography Guild. Founded by Don Whitman (1917-1998) in Denver, Colorado during the post WWII physical fitness boom, it thrived for over 40 years.

As one of the top proponents of the golden age of Physique photography, he captured in his work the All-American macho virility that represented every man's fantasy of the Wild West. Even during an atmosphere of extreme sexual repression in 1950's America, his studio flourished, due in large part due to the unique skill and taste he employed in creating his work's "look".

Wessel & O'Connor Fine Art

photography by terry palka

photography by terry palka

Women of a Certain Age

For almost twenty years I have photographed the traces of human occupation in the landscape, history written visibly on the land.

In this work I am photographing the history of a life written in the folds and wrinkles of the body. --Joan Myers

Women of a Certain Age

Reader Updates

Reader Profile(s)



Photo by Dave Levingston

I hope you all are managing to stay cool through the dog days of summer. As for me, I slept on an inflatable mattress in my basement darkroom for the second night in a row. Whew, it's hot here in Victoria!

Anyway, today I have a triple header post for you. Three Art Nudes readers have sent me notes recently letting me know about updates to their site, so I thought I'd share them with you.

Dave Levingston has added a new gallery that can be found under Fine Art Figure-->Figure in Nature-->Desert Southwest 2005

Graham Wallis has done a general rework of his site with lots of new images and a new design.

Last but not least, Curtis Joe Walker has a new series called Motion Blur Nude

If any others out there have site updates, or a website that's never been featured here before, please feel free to let me know.

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Here's another translation job for any of you who can read Russian. What it the name of the photographer responsible for these extraordinary images?

**UPDATE** Thanks to Reader Wolf for letting me know that the photographer's name is Sergej Belov

Sergej Belov at photosight.ru

Wolfgang Pietrzok Gallery

Here's an interesting series by Wolfgang Pietrzok. I'm not quite sure how these are done, although I'm assuming some kind of paint on a tempered glass plate with the photographer underneath. If anyone can translate the German or French description and the process is explained, let me know in the comments.

Wolfgang Pietrzok Gallery

If you look down to the posts from July 9th, you'll see that I wasn't able to identify the photographer responsible for MLH Photos. Thanks to sharp-witted reader Denis from Sensuous Arts we now know that his name is Michael Helms. Thanks Denis!

Helms also has another website featuring more artistic work at Michaelhelms.com

Welcome on Thierry le Goues site

I've posted this incredible series by Thierry Legoues before, but it seems to keep popping up everywhere I look lately. After seeing it in a magazine today I decided it was time to introduce it to anyone who hadn't see it before.

Thierry le Goues

Carlos Carpier

Reader Profile



Here's yet another talented artist who reads this blog. This time, it's Argentinian photographer Carlos Carpier.

Carlos Carpier

Accueil

Reader Profile


Art Nudes reader Gorgui is another French photographer who uses a single name pseudonym. His introduction page explains that he does this to avoid interference with his professional life.

The beautiful locations in Arles that he uses for his shoots are a real benefit of European life. We simply don't have architecture that grand or ancient here in North America.

Gorgui Photo

Gladys :: Photographe

Quietly surreal imagery by a French photographer going simply by the name "Gladys".

Gladys :: Photographe

Jason Lightphere v.2 - a photoset on Flickr

Photo Geek/D.I.Y.

"The Gary Fong Lightsphere is a flash diffuser that is gaining popularity with wedding and portrait photographers world wide. His product is selling at a pace that the manufacturer can't keep up with. This Flickr photoset demonstrates the use of a to-go container to make your own."

Jason Lightphere v.2 - a photoset on Flickr

marko mueller - photographie

My only complaint about these beautifully executed images by German photographer Marko Mueller is that there are far too few of them on his website.

marko mueller - photographie

Les photos de Maite Soler

Male & female nudes in photographs and paintings by Chilean photographer Maite Soler

Les photos de Maite Soler

Gallery :: Maleonn

While figure photography isn't the primary subject of Chinese photographer Maleonn's work, his images are just too good not to post here. The image above is from the Mephisto series, my personal favourite set.

PhotoSeen Gallery :: Maleonn


Here is his official website but I had difficulty with the flash navigation.

ALTphotos Photography Community :: For Creative Photographers

There are hundreds of images in the ALTphotos portfolio of Bulgarian photographer Katia Chausheva

Katia Chausheva at ALTphotos

MLH Photo Erotica

There's no doubt that lots of the work by the unidentified photographer behind MLH Photo crosses the line into erotica/glamour and sometimes even pornography. Nonetheless, there is masses of content on this site and much of it is just good photography, therefore I felt it was worth posting here. (Besides, I've been going a bit heavy on the art history lately.) This is also a great example of a photographer at the top of his game in a specific genre. His portfolio features just about every big name gothic/fetish model in the industry.

**Warning: Some explict content**

MLH Photo

Spider Awards

Image by Sergey Kharlamov

The winners & nominees galleries for the 2006 Black and White Spider Awards feature some of the best of the monochrome photography world.

Nudes Category Winners: Professional

Nudes Category Professional Nominees

Nudes Category Winners: Amateur

Nudes Category Amateur Nominees

1000 Nudes Menu

Here's another art historical overview of nude photography. Lots of photos, but little didactic content beyond classifying the images into categories.

Uwe Scheid's 1000 Nudes

This link suggested by Jose of Letra Corrida

The Angkor Wat Gallery

PSA/Charity



American photographer and perennial favourite of this blog, John Casado wrote to tell me about a new charity project of his. 50% of the proceeds of the sale of John's digital fine art prints of Angkor Wat will benefit the children of Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Please visit the site and consider buying one of these prints. If you are a blogger, please also consider posting a link to this site.

The Angkor Wat Gallery

Luminous-Lint: Theme: Nude

Anon.
Female Nude at Mirror
1850-1852
Daguerreotype, Hand-colored
2 1/2 x 2 1/4 in

Here's a brief illustrated overview of the history of figure photography broken into thematic groups. The site also contains chapter on other genres and offer the opportunity for direct visitor feedback on each topic.

Luminous-Lint: Theme: Nude

ModelMayhem.com

Photographers/Models FYI

As every figure photographer knows, one of the biggest challenges we face is finding talented and willing models. One of my models recently introduced me to Model Mayhem, it's a friendster/myspace style community that provides free portfolio services for both models and photographers. It has a heavy fashion slant, but there are plenty of models interested in figure work too, so I'd say check it out.

ModelMayhem.com

#6700098 Takaci Hirano Photography

Takaci Hirano wrote to tell me that he's updated his site with three more of his strangely engaging photo series. I've been struggling to describe this photographer's work for a few years now. Fortunately he's now added an English bio page that describes his works' theme pretty well as "Yori hito rashiku, yori sonomama ni", this is, "Be as human is, more as you are".

#6700098 Takaci Hirano Photography

Barbara Cole - Photography

Since we're on an underwater theme today, I'd like to introduce the work of Canadian photographer Barbara Cole. Don't miss her other work as well, the Painted Ladies series is wonderful.

Barbara Cole - Photography

This link suggested by reader and fellow blogger Andre from Placebo Katz check out his terrific art and photography blog.

Howard Schatz

Water babes to be found here too, and more besides.

Howard Schatz

Photodesign Corinna Holthusen

Virtuoso photomanipulation by German photographer and digital artist Corinna Holtthusen

Photodesign Corinna Holthusen

Sous la Mer - a photoset on Flickr

Dictynna Sheds Her Skin

Alberich Mathews produces some of the better underwater nudes I've seen recently. (Warning to Eric, winged women await on this link.)

Sous la Mer - a photoset on Flickr

In The Chair

I apologize for the lack of posts this week, the beautiful summer weather we've been having has kept me in the backyard with a cold drink rather than inside posting to the blog. Luckily, Colin from Bog Brush hasn't been so lazy. He was kind enough to ask me for an interview which he has now posted on his site. So if you are interested in learning a little bit more about the background of this site and about me, check out the interview at the link below:

In The Chair: Bog Brush interview with Michael Barnes