THOMAS RUFF, NUDES
PHOTOGRAPHY, PORNOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY, PORNOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

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…

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BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR, 1972
FILM, PORNOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen FILM, PORNOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR, 1972

Behind the Green Door is a 1972 American feature-length pornographic film, widely considered one of the genre's "classic" pictures and one of the films that ushered in The Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984). Featuring Marilyn Chambers, who became a mainstream celebrity, it was one of the first hardcore films widely released in the United States and the first feature-length film directed by the Mitchell brothers…

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