MikeCassidy
Leica M3
Assumptions
Assumptions
Julia Camerono, Imogen Cunningham, Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange are women so I guess not creepy?!?
Men shooting Women: Ed Weston, Bill Brandt
How men shooting men: Robert Maplethorpe?
Assumptions
Julia Camerono, Imogen Cunningham, Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange are women so I guess not creepy?!?
Men shooting Women: Ed Weston, Bill Brandt
How men shooting men: Robert Maplethorpe?
btgc
Veteran
Why not take nude pics of your beloved ones, like wife or kids ? Sure you have to control album when guests come.
If we exclude "tits and bits" factor, nude body not covered by clothes is statement of truth. Too bad nude is overused by "artists" or simple fetishists. Also modern culture is wrong about nude - on one hand, there's taboo and on another - everything is about taboo, driving instincts.
If nails or hair would be taboo, I'm sure there would be pictures showing nails and hair in many ways. Go find them now in quantities like nudes are.
If we exclude "tits and bits" factor, nude body not covered by clothes is statement of truth. Too bad nude is overused by "artists" or simple fetishists. Also modern culture is wrong about nude - on one hand, there's taboo and on another - everything is about taboo, driving instincts.
If nails or hair would be taboo, I'm sure there would be pictures showing nails and hair in many ways. Go find them now in quantities like nudes are.
DrLeoB
Shoot a IIIc "K" !!!
Shot n'kd ...
Shot n'kd ...
Shot while n'ked, shot of n'ked, was shot n'ked, was shot by n'ked ....
Heck of a conjugation .....
Shot n'kd ...
Shot while n'ked, shot of n'ked, was shot n'ked, was shot by n'ked ....
Heck of a conjugation .....
shimo-kitasnap
everything is temporary..
you people from the 60s are awsome! I wish there were more open and willing females today......
williams473
Well-known
To anyone bemoaning the fact that there aren't enough willing female models, why not try shooting male models? If I ever shoot nudes (which will probably be never because I find nudes a lot like landscape - pretty boring) I would start with male nudes. I'm not sure I could photograph females without it being primarily sexual in nature, which would make the images more like porn than art for me. Then again, some of the greatest nudes in Art were done by an artist lusting after his model - Michalengelo's David, Rodin and Camille Claudel, Weston and his models... how sexually charged should nude photography be before it become porn?
Toby
On the alert
Surely you'd keep your socks on so you could keep spare rolls of film somewhere??
kennethcooke
Established
I have to confess that sometimes when I go off to my secluded little darkroom/studio in the trees to develop a couple of films I will divest myself of all apparel.
Does this classify me as a nude photographer ... or maybe just an eccentric menace to decency!
Thanks for sharing that with the group Keith
Carlitos
Member
I have. I can't show you all the 'naked' ones buy I can show you a couple of 'nudes'.
chut
Luceat Lux Vestra
When I was in college I took a photography course and we had a model sit for us nude. I didn't think much of it as I had taken drawing courses with a nude sitter before. I remember trying to take close-up shots to abstract the body and produce pseudo-landscape images. I still have those somewhere.
Have you ever heard of Carlo Mollino? He was an Italian architect who in the 1960s shot over 2000 nude Polaroids of working girls at his apartment in Torino, Italy. They're quite interesting and a book was published on the body of work. Now THAT'S dedication to one's craft!
Here's a few more of his photos.
Have you ever heard of Carlo Mollino? He was an Italian architect who in the 1960s shot over 2000 nude Polaroids of working girls at his apartment in Torino, Italy. They're quite interesting and a book was published on the body of work. Now THAT'S dedication to one's craft!
Here's a few more of his photos.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
It's taken me a long time to respond, because I couldn't believe how long this schoolboyish thread has endured.
OF COURSE I have. I'm a child of the 60s (or of the universe -- much the same thing). No nude pix for several years now, though.
I'd have thought it was pretty weird for any photographer under about 60 (or since the invention of Polaroid, so make it 80) NOT to have done so. As Hugivza says, the weird thing is the implicit prudery in this thread.
And yes, that applies either way: photographer naked, model naked. Why the * in 'naked' and what's wrong with 'nude'? Part of the same prudery, I suppose...
Cheers,
R.
OF COURSE I have. I'm a child of the 60s (or of the universe -- much the same thing). No nude pix for several years now, though.
I'd have thought it was pretty weird for any photographer under about 60 (or since the invention of Polaroid, so make it 80) NOT to have done so. As Hugivza says, the weird thing is the implicit prudery in this thread.
And yes, that applies either way: photographer naked, model naked. Why the * in 'naked' and what's wrong with 'nude'? Part of the same prudery, I suppose...
Cheers,
R.
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literiter
Well-known
I was born in 1945.
In the '60s I was a child man trying to grow up with "free love" unprescribed medications, long hair, some of the most extraordinarily marvelous music (ever) and lovely young women (who were likely as confused as I was). Roger may be a child of the '60s but in truth I must admit to being a child in my 60s.
I wasn't at Woodstock, don't even know where Haight Ashbury is, but I lived in the time and for that I'm really grateful.
There are people I know now, and am very fond of, who I'd like to visit that time but I cannot take them there. I'd just be some old fart ranting about his youth.
But what a time!
In the '60s I was a child man trying to grow up with "free love" unprescribed medications, long hair, some of the most extraordinarily marvelous music (ever) and lovely young women (who were likely as confused as I was). Roger may be a child of the '60s but in truth I must admit to being a child in my 60s.
I wasn't at Woodstock, don't even know where Haight Ashbury is, but I lived in the time and for that I'm really grateful.
There are people I know now, and am very fond of, who I'd like to visit that time but I cannot take them there. I'd just be some old fart ranting about his youth.
But what a time!
JohnTF
Veteran
Roger, the phrasing of the OP was a bit of an invitation to "school-boyish" and I gather tongue in cheek replies.
My last two serious models were both from Prague, and neither were particularly prudes, both have since taken up photography, one rather seriously.
I have not found it to be a particularly easy subject, perhaps with more time and effort it might become so, and I posted one in the Gallery that I thought reflected some of what I see when I am around Petra, who is an interesting and only coincidentally very attractive young person.
All portraits, in the ideal, perhaps should either tell you something of the person, or at least make you feel as if you know something of them. From limited experience, I have to work with someone a few times to be comfortable.
The abstract treatment is another subset, with the form and light the essence.
I do not work with nudes much in the US, way too much cultural baggage, and while there are many things to admire about the US, there may be too much pop in the culture, at least by volume. I think the weird thing is the explicit prudery expressed, but I kind of expect it with the at large.
Regards, John
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OurManInTangier
An Undesirable
I've experimented with both the arty nude photos and the more lurid 'home porn' when I was younger. I failed pretty miserably at both ( though had some fun and learned new things along the way) but then as others have mentioned, it just doesn't do it for me.
I find some forms of photographic subject less interesting than others and therefore spend less time viewing and searching for new imagery in that realm. However when its done well, and preferably well and differently, it can be incredible. I find most landscape images really dull but some photographers consistently blow me away with their vision of the world's landscapes.
I did photograph a professional dancer whilst she composed herself into various 'stills' from a routine whilst she was nude. Before I did it I was nervous, curious and yes, excited. By the time we'd finished I noticed she was naked as much as she noticed I was clothed. Some non photographer (male) friends often rib me and ask why I don't do Porn photos....I can't think of anything worse, imagine being surrounded by good looking naked women and no longer caring or being interested.
I find some forms of photographic subject less interesting than others and therefore spend less time viewing and searching for new imagery in that realm. However when its done well, and preferably well and differently, it can be incredible. I find most landscape images really dull but some photographers consistently blow me away with their vision of the world's landscapes.
I did photograph a professional dancer whilst she composed herself into various 'stills' from a routine whilst she was nude. Before I did it I was nervous, curious and yes, excited. By the time we'd finished I noticed she was naked as much as she noticed I was clothed. Some non photographer (male) friends often rib me and ask why I don't do Porn photos....I can't think of anything worse, imagine being surrounded by good looking naked women and no longer caring or being interested.
raid
Dad Photographer
Shooting kids naked [in the USA] can get you in prison.
flessas
Member
modell naked : yes
me naked : no
Long time ago, at a Mediterranean beach.
me naked : no
Long time ago, at a Mediterranean beach.
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Al Kaplan
Veteran
Yes, but with one exception it was the subject who wanted to be photographed in the nude. The exeption? My son was born "natural childbirth", my wife was wide awake throughout the delivery, and I was there as her "coach". I took photos of the entire birth, from the "crowning" when the top of the head first appears, right on through the doctor holding my nude 10 lb. 2 oz. son aloft. I shot the circumcision too. I used Tri-X with Leica M4 and M2-R bodies equipped with 35 and 50mm Summicrons.
italy74
Well-known
Yes, three times, three different models for my personal book
After having attended a professional fashion course, I took the opportunity to follow some glamour workshops near Milan.
It was something really natural, especially the first time for the ability of the Czech model. The other two workshop, especially the second, were full of vulgar girls, no real models, who thought to be on a hot line. I saved just a couple of shots of a full day.
After having attended a professional fashion course, I took the opportunity to follow some glamour workshops near Milan.
It was something really natural, especially the first time for the ability of the Czech model. The other two workshop, especially the second, were full of vulgar girls, no real models, who thought to be on a hot line. I saved just a couple of shots of a full day.
raid
Dad Photographer
We need to see examples, please ...Dino.
[just joking]
[just joking]
JohnTF
Veteran
Only attended two Briss', second one I had a camera, and honest, the Moil actually quipped, no flash during the cutting. Most people were cringing, and I had no intention of firing a flash at the "decisive moment". Obviously I have no idea how to spell these terms, but aside from the chopped liver, I am not looking forward to any such future events. ;-)
Cutter was fast.
Regards, John
Al Kaplan
Veteran
My wife was Protestant so the doc who delivered him did the circumcision right after the birth. After graduating a Presbytarian seminary he discovered his Jewish roots and converted to Judaism (lucky he was already circumcised!). Now he's a rabbi. Go figure?