The nude in the window, especially the nude in the window of an old house is an old theme now in photography. Probably it started with this photo made by Edward Weston.
But almost everyone has experimented with the theme or done slight variations. Here are a couple of examples.
And another from the genre:
Mostly, they look [...]
Happy Thanksgiving. In case you’re interested, there is an auction on eBay for a Contax G2 that includes this description:
Pristine Mint Spotless Contax G2 Camera Body. Looks unsued.
I like my cameras unsued, don’t you? I worry that the one I bought earlier in the week might have been sued at some point in its career [...]
I would really like to take a break from the day job. That will require, however, that I sell some photographs, a daunting prospect. So commonplace that it has become cliché, to sell a piece of art for a significant sum of money the artist must do two things: First, he must create art and [...]
Recently we took a trip to Monument Valley in Arizona and I made what I thought then were some pretty good photos.
But, when I got home I saw this photo of Monument Valley taken by Ansel Adams.
Adams didn’t do much color work because he thought, correctly, that the technical tools did not yet exist for [...]
Recent research indicates that people behave differently when they know they are being watched. That is true of Ravens as well. If they know or even think they are being watched when caching food, they either only pretend to cache it or cache it and come back and move it when they are certain they [...]
You seldom see males modeling nude. Perhaps this is because historically much nude photography has been by heterosexual males who prefer the female form. (With notable exceptions) Or perhaps it is because the lines of the male body aren’t as aesthetically appealing. Or maybe most males look much like the real model for Michelangelo’s David [...]
In the Navajo creation story, First Man and First Woman have an argument that leads to a four-year separation between all the men and all the women. During that time, the women use various aids, including cactus, to satisfy themselves. Mischief resulted. Fortunately for the women that did not happen in this, the fifth world, [...]
The artist in this cartoon just violated one of the fundamental rules of artists working with nude models. I doubt he’ll forget it. Thanks to William Steig and the New Yorker.
During my recent winter of photographic discontent, I roamed around the internet looking at pictures of naked women. Which is pretty much all I saw, pictures. There wasn’t much art being committed. Which led me to the question of what exactly do I mean when I say “art” and how does it apply [...]
