New York Photographer John Santerineross combines his considerable talents as a sculptor/assemblage artist with his self professed "dark & erotic" photographic vision. The results are wonderful. Strange allegorical tales are told through his elaborately constructed sets featuring disguised or tormented figures.

Don't miss his virtual studio tour! What an incredible space he has to work in. I'm green with envy.

John Santerineross

The Country Girls are a Glasgow based photographers group comprising of 5 female photographers whose aim is to promote female photography to a larger audience.

The Country Girls

Sorry that posts have been so slow lately. As predicted, the new house is demanding lots of my time. All week I work all day at my day job and then come home to about 4 more hours of home improvement. Weekends are consumed with hunting garage sales for bargain tools and hardware and then more work. Today I'm putting up the walls of my future darkroom.

But hey, if your bemoaning the lack of new content here, I've got a new favourite photoblog. Phillip Cartland of www.eye-imagine.co.uk and AfricanAperature.com wrote to tell me that he has now himself a blog. He's found all kinds of links to great photography.

Check it out here

The work of the mysterious Madame Zuzu is sometimes disturbing, sometimes beautiful and occasionally shocking.

Here's an interesting experiment/technique Dan Macormack has done a serveral series of nudes using a 4 lensed Nimslo 3-D camera. However instead of using them to produce the intended stero image, he contact prints them in groups.

You can see his work here Dan Macormack

Photographer Aicha Hockx reveals nothing about herself by way of biographical information on her website, but that's OK. The photos speak for themselves.

The high style work of pierre et gilles is well worth a look.

Come check out the strange and beautiful work of Reno Larson

Self-Portrait
D.Ducruet, 2000

The photographs of Diane Ducruet are challenging and thought provoking.

Whew! Day 11 of the new house. I'm finally back on line, but I'm wiped out. All week it has been a parade of tradesmen and movers. My girlfriend and I have been painting, sanding, fixing stuff, and making multiple daily runs to the hardware store, all while living on a diet of take out junk food. However, the house is starting to show it's potential slowly but surely. It'll be years before we're "done" but damn, it's great to have such a big old place to ourselves (5 bedrooms!) I can't wait to get my studio and darkroom set up and running.

I got a nice note today from D Brian Nelson pointing me to fine art photography publishers Adnax Publications. Their web site contains sample images from their books and features such photographers as D. Brian himself as well as Victor Ivanovski, Jim Riegel, Dekan, Ben Marcato, and Alf Naxos. Terrific stuff.

Here's something you wouldn't see in North America. Volkswagon and Helmut Newton join forces to use fine art nude photography to sell cars...I'll refrain from further comment.

Helmut Newton-Autoerotic

Kate with Peacock Feather
Unique Silver Gelatin Print
Michael Barnes, 2001

Stephan Schlage, the webmaster at the German Fine Art photography site Erozunagalerie.de contacted me months ago about wanting to set up a gallery of my work on his page. I sent him some images but after checking back several times and not seeing anything I eventually gave up and forgot about it. However, I was pleasantly surprised today to find that the promised gallery has finally been created. Thanks Stephan! Please check out my mini-portfolio, it contains several recent images not on my webpage. You can find it here:

Michael Barnes

When you're done looking at my stuff, go explore Stephan's excellent collection of dozens and dozens of fine art nude photographer's portfolios.

www.Erozunagalerie.de

Servitude II
Lynn Bianchi, 1998

"Lynn Bianchi's work is a constant inquiry into the perception and interpretation of the classical ideal of the female nude. The New York photographer interprets with a dreamlike choreography the culinary culture of the 20th century. Her works show, not without irony, a female world: Naked women eat spaghetti, drink tea, telephone, and laugh. "We celebrate and ritualize, our sensuality and humanity around a meal at the table. Yet, we seem unable to accept those bodies which show the excessive effects of such pleasure." The gold toned silver gelatin photographs have an appearance similar to charcoal drawings or fresson photographs, so that the very surface of each image serves to extend to them our persception of physical beauty.

Her images are part of major museum collections, including The Brooklyn Museum of Art. The Chrusler Museum, Musee de L'Elysee. and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "

lynn bianchi

Kattaryna Breaux photographs extremely exotic gothic models. Not only are her photographs striking (particularly her one of a kind work) but they also serve as a interesting study of a the tastes and styles of the gothic sub-culture from an insider's perspective. She lives in lives and works in Florida.

Kattaryna Breaux

Duane MICHALS (born in 1932)
From Children of Adam
Gelatin silver print
1995
8.7 X 12.7 cm

"Life is too short to be distracted by the pesky, mundane questions that plague most photographers: "How can I get this model to smile without showing her teeth?" or, "Does this house look better with or without the little red wagon in front?" So think hard, think deep and ask new questions. As a photographer, how can you present the nature of existence and the drama of the human condition? How will you define beauty and ugliness in visual terms? What is death and why is mankind fixated on rational explanations of the afterlife? In short, send the models home and start asking the BIG questions.

Duane Michals has been examining these issues over the span of his legendary and influential career, blurring the boundaries between photography and philosophy to create a body of work that is unique in the field. Unlike many of his contemporaries who fixate on manufactured ideas of what is true and real in the world, Michals delves deep into the unconscious mind to find lasting meaning in his life and his art."

Duane Michals

Another Duane Michals page

and yet another

There's lots more out there on this outstanding artist, I encourage you to dig around google a bit to find more. Thanks so much to Leann at indigoblog for reintroducing me to one of the greats.

Here is a very cool google tool to use in your search for fine art nude photography!

Google Viewer!

Untitled, Tamotsu Fujii

"The Photography Room is a gallery of fine art that specializes in the sale of photographic art from local, national and international photographers."

If I lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan I'd be a regular visitor...

the Photography Room :: a Gallery of Fine Art

If you haven't visited Michelle7: Fine Art Nude Photography lately. Perhaps it's time you did.

There, I told you I'd still update periodically!

Thanks to Pixie for the encouragment and the links.

Philippe Pache, photographe