Kevin Gruyé

Kevin Gruyé used extensive digital manipulation to create these images that for me at least, bring to mind the paintings of Breugel or Bosch. They are from his 1999-2001 series "Clank, Boom, Bang"

Kevin Gruyé-clank, boom, steam

I recommend you also check out his "Heroes of a People" series.

Heroes of a people

Jaro Sy´kora - photographer

The work of Slovakian photographer Jaro Sykora is strong and disturbing. Using models ranging from the elderly to alcoholics, his photographs are not about the beauty of the human form. Rather they seem to me to be symbolist meditations on human fraility and vunerability.

Judge for yourself here.

Jaro Sykora - photographer

Flor Garduno - Inner Light

Flor Garduno
Edén,
Switzerland, 2001

I just don't have enough superlatives in my vocabulary to explain how amazingly great the photographs of Mexican photographer Flor Garduno are. It's finds like this that really make my day. Visit this excellent gallery of her work from her exhibit entitled "Inner Light"

Flor Garduno - Inner Light

and if you're hungry for information about the artist don't miss the Exhibition Press Release

Fine Art Photography by Christian Waeber

Christian Waeber has an excellent eye for close cropped abstract compositions using the body.

Fine Art Photography by Christian Waeber

This link suggested by Antonio Thanks!

iconic image: james mckenna, photographer

Furies,
James McKenna

"people ask, what are the your pictures about? well, life is hard, and strange; my pictures are about that. beauty turns up in unlikely places. my pictures are about that, too. hope is fragile, but hope is all we have. mostly my pictures are about that. ultimately, the pictures are what they are to you. their meaning lies within yourself. i meant something when i made them, but that's over now"

iconic image: james mckenna, photographer

This link via defocused.net

In Canada where this blog calls home, today is Thanksgiving Day. So I'm off to eat turkey and pumpkin pie at the Mother-in-laws house. So Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian visitors, and to the rest of you too!

http://www.petervanstralen.nl/

I'm pretty sure I've featured this photographer before, but this definitely bears re-posting. If, like me, you've ever found it difficult to find interesting poses for your models, you've got to visit Peter Vanstralen's website. Not only does he make fine images, he gets his models into some of the most amazing poses I've ever seen. Brilliant stuff. I'm adding this one to the perma-links section.

peter vanstralen/

CHRISTIAN COIGNY PHOTOGRAPHS

As well as being a very successful commercial photographer, Christian Coigny produces almost painfully exquisite male & female portraiture and nudes. His studio is located in Lutry, Switzerland.

CHRISTIAN COIGNY PHOTOGRAPHS

Thanks to Antonio for this link suggestion.

Procédés anciens

Nikolaï Bachelet is a master of alternative process photography. He produces everything from Polaroid transfers to Gum Bichromate and Cyanotype prints.

Nikolaï Bachelet Procédés anciens

naked

Well I'm back from my trip so it's time to catch up on some posting. Here is an interesting little piece of interactive flash web art that explores our concept of body image and nudity.

naked

I'm off on a business trip to Las Vegas & Portland so no new posts until next week.

In the meantime, may I recommend you check out some work by your humble blog host?

Gallery

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. "

Gallery

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

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