Schatz/Ornstein Studio

Ray Allen, Basketball from Athlete series

I first became familiar with Howard Schatz because of his well known underwater figure photography, but there are lots of other interesting photos on his website. Be sure and check out the human body and couples galleries too.

Schatz/Ornstein Studio

Arnault JOUBIN - Photographe professionnel ? Paris - France

French Photographer Arnault Joubin.

Arnault JOUBIN

via indie nudes

Gabriele Rigon Fine Art Photography - Index Page

Italian photographer Gabriele Rigon.

Gabriele Rigon Fine Art Photography

The Hollywood Photography of George Hurrell

Judy Garland, 1944

George Hurrell is not a fine art nude photographer. However, he is one of the all time greatest portrait photographers and someone whose work I most admire.

The Hollywood Photography of George Hurrell

Dan McCormack's BODYSCAN Digital Photography

"A fine art digital photographic work by Dan McCormack. Bodyscan is a serial image of a nude, scanned from foot to head across the back and head to foot across the front."

Dan McCormack's BODYSCAN Digital Photography

The Eternal Now - Mario Cravo Neto

"Quite often the duality between objects of inanimate nature and representatives of the animate world is underscored, "The subjects’ identities are nearly always obscure by something – a stone, a turtle, a bird, a nail-studded African idol – held before their heads; the work never suggests faceless alienation, but its opposite: a sublime if unsettling union of a man and nature."

V. Aletti in The Village Voice, New York, 22 September 1992. writing on Mario Cravo Neto

It takes a some digging to get past the writing, but the effort is paid off with some excellent photographs.

The Eternal Now - Mario Cravo Neto

John Casado - Fine Art Photography

Master photographer John Casado

John Casado - Fine Art Photography

Petr Flynt - fotograf

In Petr Flynt's photographs, the models all inhabit the same shallow indistinguishable space in front of a nondescript backdrop, acting out ambiguous allegories that the viewer is left to ponder. A smart and intriguing body of work.

Petr Flynt - fotograf

#6700098 :: photography :: eng.ver

Takaci Hirano wrote to tell me that he's updated his website with a new portfolio of work entitled "For Your Leaving". Go by and check it out.

#6700098 :: photography

Kim Weston Nude Photography

The Weston family dynasty continues through Kim Weston.

"Kim apprenticed for his father Cole in the darkroom with grandfather
Edward Weston's negatives. He also spent fifteen years assisting his
uncle Brett Weston. For nearly twenty years Kim has used an 8 x 10
camera, living in Wild Cat Canyon, Carmel Highlands, the home of his
grandfather. There he designs the visions, builds the sets and photo-
graphs the dreams."

Kim Weston Nude Photography

XUPACABRAS

I'm off to Las Vegas for a week so no posts until I return. In the meantime, I'd suggest you visit the excellent XUPACABRAS blog to get your fix of fine art photography.

See you in a week!

Elizabeth Mary

Here's another one of the Elizabeth Mary pics from this past January.

See some of my much older work at my painfully out of date website here.

Lois Greenfield

Daniel Ezralow & Ashley Roland, 1986

No one captures motion like Lois Greenfield does. She's probably best known for her book 'Breaking Bounds' which featured dancers captured in incredible gravity defying poses.

Lois Greenfield

Thanks to Bill J. for this link.

MidbrowArt Model Vs Photographer

"What happens when a middle-aged man with a beer belly decides to mimic the poses of his models?  Truth is definitely scarier than fiction.  Not to mention a lot funnier."

More silliness today, I need it. Here's Terry Donovan's downright goofy "Model Vs. Photographer" series.

MidbrowArt Model Vs Photographer

Enough academic talk and serious thought about artistic merit, for now. Time for something just for fun. For instance, have you ever wondered what your name would look like spelled in naked people? You need look no further than here to see your name in nudes.

Thanks to Fireflye for the link suggestion.

'The erotic eye and its nude. An inquiry into the vicissitudes of the scopic and the phanic drive'

This link will keep you busy for a while. Stefan Beyst has compiled the work of more than hundred photographers from all over the world to illustrate a series of essays he has written on the topic of the nude in photography, painting and sculpture. This is still a work in progress. So far, five and a half essays have been posted.

1. the erotic eye and the erotic senses
2. the erotic appearance of man
3. the eye's seizure of power: the visualisation of the erotic appearance:
4. revealing and concealing: the nude clad
7. the nude captured in the image (part 1)
8. the transfiguration of the nude in the image

Weighty stuff, but a wealth of images and thought on the topic.

The erotic eye and its nude. An inquiry into the vicissitudes of the scopic and the phanic drive.

Damon wrote to recommend this link to the work of Russian photographer Alexander Shakhabalov. All the text is in Russian, but the pictures speak for themselves. There are a total of nine galleries with dozens of images in each. The work is generally good, although several are strongly remincesent of David Hamilton. In my books, this isn't necessarily a good thing...

**UPDATE** Damon wrote to ask me to elaborate a bit on my statement above. My problems with Hamilton aren't so much with the age of his models, as with his cheesy soft focus, Penthouse style eroticism. I quite like Jock Sturges and Sally Mann, both of whom have been criticised for use of young models, the difference with them is that they aren't overtly sexualizing their subjects. David Hamilton may be a good photographer, but his style is severely dated and the philosophy behind his work is suspect at best. It's actually unfair of me to compare Alexander Shakhabalov to Hamilton, I like Shakhabalov's work much better.

Alexander Shakhabalov

Thanks for the link Damon!

BearModeling.com - Portfolio of Elizabeth Mary

I was pleased to see that Elizabeth Mary, a model I've worked with three times now, selected the above photo from our most recent shoot together for her online portfolio. Thanks Liz, glad you liked the results.

Check out her site here.

BearModeling.com - Portfolio of Elizabeth Mary

Thorn Hug

Margot Knight’s surrealistic digitally manipulated photographs are alternately humourous, tragic and more than occasionally nightmarish.

margot knight

This link via Wiley Wiggin's blog News of the dead

Portfolio - Frantisek Drtikol

Dance group Dalcroz, 1928

It's been far too long since I featured the work of Czech photographer & early 20th century master, Frantisek Drtikol. So here's two galleries to make up for it.

Frantisek Drtikol-Gallery 1

Frantisek Drtikol-Gallery 2