Belgian Photographer Claude Fauville

Claude Fauville photographe / fotografen

It's time for an Art Nudes reader profile.

Jeff Ramsdale is a Seattle photographer, and the one responsible for finding so many of the pregnancy photography links. He considers himself an enthusiast amateur.

He's got a small sampling of his work on Photo.net. Check it out here.
Photos of Jeff Ramsdale

Do you have a web page or on-line gallery? Let me know about it. I'd like to start regularly featuring the work of the photographers that visit this blog.

"Since the end of 1989, Michal Macku has used his own creative technique which he has named "Gellage" (the ligature of collage and gelatin).

The technique consists of layering exposed and fixed photographic gelatin on paper. This transparent and plastic substance makes it possible to reshape and reform the original images, changing their relationships and endowing them with new meanings. The finished work gives a compact image with a fine surface structure. Printed on photographic quality paper, each Gellage is a highly durable print eminently suited for collecting and exhibiting."


Czech photographer Michal Macku

Photo by Robin Rosenzweig

Today we have a great big theme post on pregnancy photography. Reader Jeff R. wrote to tell me he was going to be doing some photos for a friend and asked if I could recommend any good sites to serve as inspiration. I sent him a few that I knew of, and then he wrote back with a bunch more that he had found. Together we came up with a pretty good list of sites dealing with this particular form of figure photography.

So, without further ado here are the links:

robin Rosenzweig

albrightcreativeimagery.com

jennifer loomis

photos by kathryn

campbell salgado studio

maternityphoto.com

teddi yaeger

focuspocusphoto.com

erainimages.com

sandra coan

If Joel Peter Witkin started doing erotica, it would probably look something like the work of Marzena Kawalerowicz and Zbigniew Reszka.

Site requires flash and has a tricky interface.

spirala.net //online portfolio

Dutch photographer Freek Peters and his wife Anya, collaborate to create some interesting works of art which are equally photographs and paintings.

Freek Peters

Who is the mysterious blogger/photographer behind deFocused.net?
I don't know, but both the blog and the photos are well worth checking out.

deFocused

"Life is a negotiation of the self and the mythological concepts of love, fear, sex, death, security and courage. These narrations of the spirit transcend time & space and are the threads of which the tapestry of life is woven.

The resulting self portraits are archetypal in their exploration of the human condition. They are unashamedly declarations of beauty and faith in life."

New York photographer & teacher Cig Harvey's work exudes feminine lightness and delicacy yet still maintains an enigmatic quality that transends any cliches.

Cig Harvey

For all of you who look at Maxim or Playboy and wonder where they find such perfect specimens of womanhood, I refer you to this incredible example of just how much of a difference Digital retouching can make to a photo.

Another striking example can be found here

Fanciful, tragi-comic and surreal are the words that spring to mind when I try to describe the work of Beligian Photographer Alan Tex.

Here is an all too small gallery of his work in french or although badly mangled, here is the Google Translated Version

The work of photography John Casado is lyrical, fluid, mysterious and exquisitely executed. He is without a doubt a modern master.

"Our culture has given us a media world filled with naked people. There is no need to imagine anything anymore. Nothing about the body is private. What is left is the mystery of how people interpret the figure for themselves and what symbols they attach in their most primitive soul searching. For both the artist and the viewer it comes down to a private affair... a quiet meeting in the dark." John Casado-Statement (exerpt)

Casado Fine Art

This is cool. This guy's turned an old panel truck into an enormous camera. Which for some reason he calls "Peanut"

Peanut: The Giant Camera

This link via The Presurfer

If you are looking for some sensational posing look no further than the work of New York photographer Michael Ezra

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.