RetroAtelier - Photographic institution

My favourite find of recent weeks by far is the Ukrainian photo collective RetroAtelier. They create fantastic homages to vintage photography across a range styles with incredible accuracy. Don't miss this one.

RetroAtelier - Photographic institution

Mark Meir Paluksht

I've featured Israeli photographer Mark Meir Paluksht before, but I really enjoy his latest work exploring retro styling and vintage themes.

Марк-Meir Paluksht at Photosight.ru

As We See Them

Photo by Charles West

For any of you that will happen to be in Bloomington, Indiana over the next month or so, here's an interesting exhibit that runs until April 1st.

Organized by guest curators Herbert Ascherman, Jr. and Jeannette Palsa, As We See Them presents the work of eleven artists who are using some of the earliest photographic processes to create contemporary images dealing with sexuality and the human figure. This diverse group of photographers has put aside digital technology to explore the possibilities of these 19th-century processes.

Kinsey Today

Thanks to reader Janice for sending in this link.

Harold Lloyd

It's been a while since I posted a classic photographer, so to rectify that, here's a portfolio of 1950's great Harold Llyod.

Photographers Gallery - Photographs by Harold Lloyd

Dull Tool Dim Bulb: Camera Club Girls

Art Nudes reader Jim Linderman has made the full text and image of his two latest books available for preview and voting at Blurb.   Great stuff for the vintage photography buff.

This is for a limited time only (until August 20) so take a peek, and vote for a fellow reader. 

Camera Club Girls and The Painted Backdrop

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

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

SSSSH! Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden

Victor Minx (the pseudonym of a photo collector behind several other vintage photo blogs) wrote me to tell me about his site, SSSSH! where he posts vintage vernacular erotica from his extensive collection.

Although not strictly within the bounds of what I normally post here, as a vintage photo collector myself, and a photographer of the nude, I really enjoyed the look and tone of a lot of these.

*WARNING* Some explicit content.

SSSSH! Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden Nude Women in vernacular erotic photography

Man Ray

I'll wrap up this week's post with one of the greats, surrealist master Man Ray. This site has a staggering amount of his work, searchable by theme and medium. Although some of the thumbnails don't work properly, this is still an amazing resource.

Man Ray official digital photographic library

Mariana's Flickr Safari

Once again, Art Nudes' associate editor Mariana Pinheiro has braved the forsaken hinterlands of Flickr, to cull through the dross and come up with some gems. Thank you Mariana, you're a braver and more patient person than I, that's why we love you!

For those of you that don't know, Mariana is a long time contributor of links to this site. She has one of the most remarkable eclectic minds I've ever encountered and also runs the wonderful Gatochy's Blog. Check it out!

So, without further ado, here are the results of Mariana's Flickr Safari

*1102's Photostream
Dad's Model Photos
Vintage Nudes
Cut It Out You Guys (mainly 50s and 60's pinup and glamour)
bareflesh shots
desnudos - Pedro Marinello Kairath
CieloT
Nude - agehaxx

50's Pinup Girls & Vintage Nude Photography

As a photographer who likes to think of his work surviving in the world after I'm gone, and a collector of vintage photography, I was really pleased to get an email from John DeFeo asking me to check out his site.

John rescues fading and damaged Anscochrome and Ektachrome colour slides of nude and pinup photography from the 1950s and lovingly restores them. The before and after results are incredible!

50nudes.com

RetroAtelier - Lobby

Wow! I'm blown away by RetroAtelier. The anonymous photographers behind this site have devoted themselves utterly to recreating the various photographic styles of the early 20th century and have even organized them decades. (Update: Mariana writes to tell me that the Director of the site is a man named Alex Galushkoff) Marvelous stuff, and really, really well done. This one earns a place in the permanent links!

RetroAtelier

A big thanks to Mariana for this one.

George Platt Lynes

Male nudes from the 30s and 40s by gay photography pioneer George Platt Lynes

George Platt Lynes

Galerias de Desnudos

Photo by Bruno Braquehais c. 1850 -1874

It's been too long since I posted some of the work by our photographic forefathers. This web page has got some terrific stuff from the dawn of figure photography.

Galerias de Desnudos