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Description & Provenance: Eye of the beholder, beautiful images of style, drama & desire. An object of beauty is anything that reveals or resonates with personal meaning. From The photographic art genre, a study in ideal form. This is an old gorgeous dusty relic vintage antique bohemian black and white Victorian c1900's nude naked lady, quality art model photo print. The art work has beautifully modeled light and shadow. This photo is clearly aiming for a more idealized posture. The photographer is confronting the camera straight on. You can see that the photographer is making it human and real rather than ethereal and idealized. The photo seem somehow more naked than nude. This image is a high quality beautiful art photograph. This female model is shown in a passive sitting stance. When you are looking at the photo some of us become subsumed by the striking light-dark contrasts and shadows cast by geometric objects or the figures themselves. The nude as a conceptual and artistic category has always involved the notion of an ideal abstracted from the reality we confront in our everyday lives. We are committed to enhancing our customer’s lives by discovering creating, and pointing out only the best art we can find in the world today. We Are Taste-Makers, Art Advisers & Consultants.

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Encyclopedia Name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_photography

Nude photography is a genre of art photography which depicts the nude human body. The fine arts are concerned with aesthetic qualities and creativity; thus any erotic interest, although often present, must be secondary. This distinguishes Nude photography from glamour photography, which focuses on showing the subject of the photograph in the most attractive way; or pornographic photography, which has the primary purpose of arousing the viewer sexually. The line between these distinctions is not always clear, and each photographer tends to make their own case in characterizing their work. There are also many other depictions of nudity that have commercial, scientific, or other non-aesthetic purposes.

Verbal History:

Early photographers often depicted the nudity of women in accordance with the traditions of the nude in other media. Photographs often served artists as substitutes for live models, however, the best of these were also intended as works of art in their own right. Poses, lighting, soft focus, vignetting and hand retouching were used to create artistic images.



After WWI, with the rise of the avant-garde in art, some photographers such as Brassaï, Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, André Kertész and Bill Brandt became more experimental in their portrayal of nudity. The classical tradition also continued into the 20th Century.



Many fine art photographers have a variety of subjects in their work, the nude being one.



Glamour and fashion photographers also aspire to fine art status with some of their work; for example Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Annie Leibowitz, and Jerry Avenaim. The distinction is often one of marketing; fine art is sold through galleries or dealers in limited editions signed by the artist, while glamour photos are distributed through mass media such as magazines. For some, the difference is in the gaze of the model; glamour models look into the camera, art models do not.