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Apparition de St. Lazare
Ilfochrome print, 12 x 17 3/4" on a 16 x 20" sheet

The Cathedral of Lucien Clergue
"...Unlike many who use the computer to make a layered image, Clergue makes his double exposures in-camera, with masterful skill. Exposing the same roll of film twice puts two sandwiched images on each negative. One image is contemporary, of a nude or the bullfight. The other is a photograph made in a museum of a detail from a pre-nineteenth century painting. "

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Tamara Amhoff-Windeler - Fotodesignerin- Frankfurt am Main

German photographer Tamara Amhoff-Windeler creates simple, uncluttered classic images with a delicate and feminine sensibility.

Tamara Amhoff-Windeler - Fotodesignerin- Frankfurt am Main

Corps Partagés | Pascal Tarraire

Pascal Tarraire is a French photographer. He works in black and white he has a book entitled "Corps Partagés" which according to Google translation means "Divided Bodies" Beyond that, because of my woefully poor French I'm afraid I can't tell you much. The photos speak for themselves though.

*UPDATE* Marek, whose French is obviously better than mine AND Google's wrote to tell me that "Corps Partagés" is actually better translated as "Shared Bodies". Thanks Marek!

This is his official home page. I had some trouble with this in Explorer on my Mac. It is very flash heavy, but if you can get it to work it's worth your time.

Corps Partagés | Pascal Tarraire

For those who aren't successful with his homepage, or just want more, here are two alternate galleries of his work:

Pascal Tarraire (Alt.1)

Pascal Tarraire (Alt.2)

This link was suggested by Art Nudes reader and professional photographer Antonio Bogaert. Thanks Antonio! Visit his site here Bogart Photo

Google Search: nudes

Well, this is interesting. This humble blog ranks as #14 out of 6,870,000 hits when you search for nudes on Google. Yikes! So much responsibility... I think I'll take the day off ; )

Have a great weekend all of you. More posts tomorrow.

Lucas Samaras (Getty Museum)

Lucas Samaras
American, July 6, 1975
Polaroid SX-70 print
3 x 3 in.

Using himself as his own model, the work of Lucas Samaras is intense and full of symbolism and hidden meaning. Although there seems to be very little about him online, he's covered in most photographic art history publications and I'd recommend you seek out his work.

Lucas Samaras (Getty Museum)

Lucas Samaras (artseensoho.com)

Both because of the conservative attitudes of the country and the political system which would have considered this kind of work decadent, fine art nude photography doesn't have a long tradition in China. However, in recent years a few brave photographers are starting to explore new directions including figure photography. This web page showcases a few of them.

Site is in Chinese, scroll to bottom for photos.

ChinaPhotoCenter.com

Black & White World: Photographer's Toolkit

Here's a good page for black & white photographers to have in their bookmarks. The Black & White World Photographer's Toolkit covers topics from the basic How to Make a Black and White Print to the advanced Potassium Ferricyanide: Fantastic or Frustrating?

Plenty of good information to be had.

Black & White World: Photographer's Toolkit

Dianne Whelan Photography

Diane Whelan could teach most fine art photographers a thing or two about marketing their work.

Dianne Whelan

Hello all: I just joined the blog linking site "Blogarama". If you like what I do here and you want to help me promote this blog, please click on the link below to give me a good review.

Thanks in advance.

Michael B

Review Art Nudes

www.chrisdonovan.com

Christopher Lee Donovan is a young New York photographer & digital artist. Through extensive Photoshop manipulation he creates images that are sometimes dreamlike and sometimes macabre but alway of a very high calibre.

www.chrisdonovan.com

Konstantin Korneshov's handcoloured black and white photos have a vintage, strongly "Russian" feel that to my mind evokes imaginings of the secret decandence of the Czars. Great stuff.

Konstantin Korneshov

Exposed: The Victorian Nude - Haus der Kunst - Absolutearts.com

Here's an interesting essay on the changing attitudes regarding art depicting the figure during the Victoria period.

"Every naturalistic representation of the naked body was considered during the Victorian era (1837–1901) as morally dangerous. "

Exposed: The Victorian Nude - Haus der Kunst

Ernesto Timor (Trompe-la-mort : photos & fantasies)

"I've been living quite a long time in a kind of photo booth. There was no room for modesty in there! What did we expect from those quick poses? Maybe that my pretty visitors would lay bare rather than plainly nude. Rediscovering those badly fixed prints today, I smell in them acid ingenuousness which nearly makes me fall in love again!"

From "Small Studio Days"

Photographer Ernesto Timor's web site Trompe-la-mort (which roughly translated I believe means "Trick Death" or "Fool Death") is full of beautiful photographs with some very interesting writing accompanying each series. Be sure to click "Site Map" to see the list of all the galleries. I counted 38 of them and they all contain photos that are worth your time to look at.

Ernesto Timor (Trompe-la-mort : photos & fantasies)

Mark Wilson

Photographer Mark Wilson from Hawaii uses his exotic locale as the setting for some beautiful figure photography.

Mark Wilson

Itzhak Ben Arieh - Artist Portfolio at absolutearts.com

Mascarade 07
Itzhak Ben Arieh, 1993

While I've never been a big fan of photomontage, Israel photographer Itzhak Ben Arieh is a master of the technique. His work is well worth a look.

Itzhak Ben Arieh

Body illuminated

It's time for another Art Nudes reader profile. This time from Dutch amateur photographer Rene Knip. Rene sent me this link to his new web page featuring his photography. I love his bio, mainly because it could describe me. (except for the bits about Holland, children and dogs...)

"Rene Knip, Made in Holland in 1967, Male, Never lost his childhood,

Married with a wonderful woman, Father of a great son (1992), Has 2 dogs

Likes Whiskey, Music, Female beauty, Simplicity, (black & white) Photography"

Body illuminated

Mallikuva

Some nice simple and subtle work by Finnish photographer Mallikuva.

Mallikuva.com / nude photography / fine art

Ken Lichtenwalter's work is more overtly erotic than I normally post here, but he's a damn good photographer. Here is his "In the Dark" portfolio.

lichtenwalter

Here is a very cool downloadable interactive fine art nude calendar. For each month you can switch back and forth between the photographs of Harri Peccinotti and the drawings of artist Mode 2 (Yes, that's his name) The calendar even allows you to add appointments.

Here it is! the Calendar (Site requires flash)

A big hats off to regular contributor Leann from Indigoblog for this great link.

Here's a great big list of photography & modeling forums. Most are frankly no good and pander mainly to the glamour and porn industries, but if you dig deep enough occassionally you come across something worthwhile. For me, the forums have provided some good leads for models in my region and also provided some good solid technical advice.

Forums! Forums! Forums!