Nude in Photography

The nude in photography portrays nudes in all kinds of attitudes and settings as they have evolved since the 1850s, when the photographer Durieu posed some of the earliest nudes in history under the direction of the artist Delacroix in Paris. More than 70 notable photographers are represented in color or black and white, including Peter Basch, Bill Brandt, Elliott Erwitt, Milton H.Greene, Philippe Halsman, Les Krims, Man Ray, Duane Michals, Eadweard Muybridge, Don Ornitz, John Rawlings, J.
Frederick Smith, and Edward Weston. Arthur Goldsmith's text is a lively and illuminating account of the continuing changes in nude photography brought about by the subtly changing attitudes of that interlocked threesome - the photographer, the model, and the viewer.