GEORGE PLATT LYNES, SELECT NUDES
George Platt Lynes was a renowned American fashion and commercial photographer who enjoyed the prime of his career during the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was very sought after by major fashion publications for his beautiful images and stunning compositions, his real passion was the male nude, which he photographed extensively in the privacy of his studio…
GARY SCHNEIDER, NUDES, 2001-2005
One of today’s most thought-provoking and original artists, South African-born photographer Gary Schneider is best known for Genetic Self-Portrait, which extends the self-portrait beyond the figure into the depths of the elemental nature of the individual...
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM, NUDES
Imogen Cunningham decided to become a photographer after seeing the photographs of Gertrude Käsebier. Cunningham grew up in the Pacific Northwest, worked for two years in Edward Curtis's studio, and later operated a successful photography studio in Seattle, Washington. In 1915 she married the painter Roi Partridge and moved to San Francisco…
TINA BARNEY, NUDES
A lesser known part of Barney's back catalougue however, is the series of nude portraits she created in the early 1990s. Exhibited just once and since left to gather dust in a closet in her Rhode Island home, in these rarely seen photographs Barney reacted against what she says had become for her the somewhat stilted poses of her friends and family…
THOMAS RUFF, NUDES
The nudes series was created by Ruff downloading photographs from online pornographic thumbnail galleries and enlarging and distorting them to varying degrees. Literally and figuratively blurring the boundaries between pornography, formalist nude photography, and the art historical genre of the nude…