In conjunction with his seminal film Kids that portrayed an honest and open perspective of New York City teenagers and that bordered on obscene, he opened the door to a whole new genre of biographical photography, as well as a massive amount of controversy and calls for censorship. Larry ClarkĪmerican photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark (1943-) stepped into the spotlight in 1971 with Tulsa, his book of grainy and visceral documentary photographs depicting teens utilising drugs, engaging in sex, and physically fighting. Remembered as one of the first female photographers to produce a nude photograph of a man, her work was not without conflict, though the sensuous photographs themselves produce feelings of calm and radiate serenity.Ĭunningham was also a founding member of Group f.64 (sometimes Group f/64) in San Francisco, a small group of photographers, including Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, that was dedicated to renewing photography on the West Coast through the use of a shared style characterised by carefully framed and sharply focused images. Characterised by a visual precision that emphasised texture, form, and light Cunningham created a staggering body of work over the course of seventy-five years. Known for her use of light to create bold images of botanical subjects and nudes, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) is considered one of the greatest American photographers. Of course they were not acknowledged as being a nice ladylike job, I was condemned, by the newspaper, a well-known publishing company in Seattle, and they called me an immoral woman.” – Imogen Cunningham In that one that I personally called The Fawn, he actually was sitting on a cake of ice, on that little lake. I was made fun of at that time, when I photographed in 1915, my husband nude on Mount Rainier. “I don’t know who tells me this, but somebody said, that I’m the first woman that ever photographed a nude man. See our list below of examples of nude photography, and how various societal standards harshly judged the artists, often ignoring the main ethos and intent behind the work. Most controversial of all are the use of children as subjects in nude photography. The male nude has traditionally been less common than the female, probably due to the dominance of male artists in art history, and more rarely exhibited or published.
The nude is still a controversial subject in all media, but especially with photography due to its inherent realism. Erotic interest, although often present, is secondary, which distinguishes fine art nude photography from both erotic or glamour photography, which focuses on showing the subject of the photograph in the most attractive way and pornographic photography, which is of a sexually explicit nature and has the primary purpose of sexual gratification for the viewer and which ordinarily claims no aesthetic value in and of itself.įine art photographs are also not taken to serve any journalistic, scientific, or other practical purposes. Nude photography should be distinguished from erotic photography, although there has been some genre overlap over the years. Nude photography has played an important role in establishing photography as an accepted medium of fine art practice. Nude photography has been a genre of fine art photography since the inception of the medium in the middle of the nineteenth century depicting the nude human body with a particular emphasis on form, composition, and the emotional qualities evoked by such.
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