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

James Christopher

Los Angeles photographer James Christopher.

James Christopher - Photographer

Jan Hronsky

Edgy, dark, oddball, humourous, with a touch of glamour, erotica and fashion. It's pretty hard to hang a definition on the work of Czech photographer Jan Hronsky.

Jan Hronsky - Fotogalerie

Art Nudes Forum • New Asana Sculpture images...

Miss Annthrope 1007, art model and regular contributor to the comments section, has posted some recent images of herself over at the Art Nudes forum.

You can check the photos out here: Art Nudes Forum • New Asana Sculpture images...

You may also want to visit Miss Annthrope's webpage/portfolio at: figuremodels.org

Last but not least, the photos she just posted were taken by photographer Matthew Newbold

Nude Modeling Controversy in Utah

Adam, an art student and Art Nudes reader from Utah sent in this article demonstrating that power of nude modeling and art to generate controversy even today. It's often easy to forget that there's some mighty conservative points of view out there that clearly equate nudity in any form with sin and sex.

As Adam points out, the article is interesting, but the real "comedy gold" kicks in, in the 190 reader comments in response to the article.

Deseret News | Utah Valley State College drafts nude-modeling rules

Vadim Stein

Absolutely sensational work by Russian photographer Vadim Stein.

Vadim Stein

If you have trouble with that link (I did the first time) try this alternate portfolio of Stein's work at Photomediaworld.com Portfolio : stein

Thanks to Eric Kellerman for sending in this link.

Model Profile: Brooke Lynne

Self-portrait by Brooke Lynne

I decided a while ago that I wanted to start featuring more models on this site for a couple reasons. First, it's good to get the perspective from the other side of the lens sometimes. Secondly, it's always great to look at their portfolio and see the myriad ways one model can be interpreted by multiple photographers.

So, without further ado, here's the website and blog of figure model Brooke Lynne.

http://artmodelbrookelynne.com/

Brooke Lynne

Rudolph Rossi

Photography collector Jim Linderman has assembled a remarkable collection of work by 1950s photographer Rudolph Rossi and has created a blog to share the images. Frankly, the photographs are not stunning. However, it's the assembly of a body of work from a heretofore unknown artist toiling away at a labour of love in a time before this style of work was widely accepted that makes this interesting.

Camera Club Girls: The work of Rudolph Rossi

David Hilton

Fine art, glamour and erotica by American photographer David Hilton.

davidhiltonphoto

Stephan Brauchli

Here's a fairly diverse portfolio of work by photographer Stephan Brauchli.

Photos by Stephan Brauchli - photo.net

Photographer - Alexander Bergstrom

Here's a large and diverse portfolio of work by Swedish photographer Alexander Bergstrom.

Photographer - Alexander Bergstrom

Andrew Kaiser

Terrific work by American photographer Andrew Kaiser. It's not often these days that you see a photographer working so confidently across so many mediums, but he seems equally comfortable in b/w, colour, film, digital, polaroid and pinhole.

Absolute Reality Studios

Jaime Ibarra

Hallucinatory, dream-like work by photographer Jaime Ibarra.

(Update: Jaime Ibarra is actually a Spanish/Australian photographer currently residing in the U.S.) Thanks to the artist and Rita in the comments section for the correction.

IbarraPhoto - The Photography of Jaime Ibarra

K Leo

Chicago photographer K Leo has completely revamped his site since I last visited it.

K Leo

Brendan Gara

Brendan Gara recently posted some new work over at the Art Nudes Forum that's work checking out. If you want to see more, visit his website at the link below.

brendan gara photography:

Remember folks, if you want to get some free exposure for your work and get some feedback from fellow readers, or if you just want to see some more images, the Art Nudes Forum is there. Jump in, register and a join the conversation. Who knows, you might even end up like Brendan and get featured here on the main page.

Why I buy garage sale photos...

OK, this is off topic, but as a chronic purchaser of old photos and negs at garage sales and second hand shops, I love this story.

$45 Negatives Could be Lost Ansel Adams Photos

Joseph DiSipio Photography

Joseph DiSipio, a long time friend of this blog, recently completely revamped his website. He specializes in traditional film and darkroom work, with an emphasis on lith printing. Go pay him a visit!

Joseph DiSipio Photography

Philippe Pache

Elegant and romantic work by Swiss photographer Philippe Pache.

Philippe Pache, photographe

Rasmus Mogensen

Quality fashion and beauty work by Rasmus Mogensen

Rasmus Mogensen

via: Fine Nudes

Arto Pazat

Black and white nudes, portraits, and documentary photography by Arto Pazat

ARTO PAZAT - Photographe

Jean Francois LeFranc

Painterly compositions and lighting with Rubenesque models by French photographer Jean Francois LeFranc

lefranc

Pascal Renoux

It's been too long since I last checked out French photographer Pascal Renoux's site.

Pascal RENOUX - photography

Constantine Gedal

A small but worthwhile portfolio of photographs by multidisciplinary artist Constantine Gedal.

Constantine Gedal

Stefan Beutler

German photographer Stefan Beutler's website features an absolutely outstanding portfolio of beauty photography.

Willkommen auf der Fotoseite von Stefan Beutler

Merkley

Amazing and elaborately composed candy coloured imagery by Merkley. Click on the old man's camera on the intro screen to get to the photos.

threequestionmarks

Jody Schiesser

Indoor and outdoor natural light nudes by American photographer Jody Schiesser.

Silverbeauty ~ Artistic Nude Photographs by Jody Schiesser

Philippe Durand Gerzaguet

Terrific work across a broad spectrum of styles by French photographer Philippe Durand Gerzaguet. His natural light nudes are rich, warm and sensuous. Really great stuff!

Phillipe is also the man behind the excellent French language photography site photofloue.net and has kindly sent in a number of the links that have been posted recently. Thanks Philippe!

philippe durand gerzaguet photographies

Stone Nudes

Dean Fidelman combines his passion for photography and rock climbing, and with the help of some extraordinarily fearless models, has created Stone Nudes. Not for those with a fear of heights!

Stone Nudes

Edoardo Pasero

Gritty and evocative film work by Italian photographer Edoardo Pasero.

Edoardo Pasero | Photographs

Alex Wilson

Canadian photographer Alex Wilson recently posted in interesting tutorial on his technique for shooting silhouettes, over at the Art Nudes Forum.

Art Nudes Forum • Tutorial - shooting silhouettes

FSC Challenges 2257 and 2257A in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia

Here's a big shout out of congratulations to the Free Speech Coalition for tackling a HUGE issue that has become a bitter fact of life for our American photographic compatriots. Specifically, the dreaded 2557 and 2557a legislation.

If you aren't familiar with the 2557 saga, photographer Dave Levingston who sent in this link and who describes himself as one of the "et al" named in the suit, describes it thusly:

In short this clearly unconstitutional law violates the guarantee of free speech contained in the Bill of Rights by making it a felony to fail to follow obscure, complicated and unclear procedures for record keeping for many types of completely legal photographs…and other forms of artistic expression such as painting and drawing. That’s right, it’s not just about photography. The idea behind this law appears to be to make it so impossible to follow the law that people will stop producing perfectly legal art work and at the same time make it possible for the government to pretty much charge anyone whose work they don’t like with a felony. Conviction can result in a 5-year prison sentence and designation as a sex offender.

The law requires that you keep detailed, cross-referenced records of all the models you work with for those images. You also must publish a statement of where those records are maintained with each publication (including on the web) of any of those images. And those records must be available for unannounced inspection by federal agents at least 20 hours a week, every week. That’s right, if you maintain the records yourself you not only must publish your address, but you also can never go on vacation because you have to be there 20 hours every week in case an inspector wants to visit unannounced. Oh…and during that inspection they are permitted to look around for anything that they might consider a violation of any law, not just 2257A. So you have effectively given up your constitutional protection against warrantless searches.

Read more about the lawsuit here:
FSC Challenges 2257 and 2257A in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia