PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Nudes

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

In the “Image-World” section of her 1970s work On Photography, American theorist Susan Sontag addresses the Western debate over the authenticity of images. Taking Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary film China and the controversies it provoked as a starting point, she examines the differences between Western and Chinese conceptions of image-reality. Sontag notes that during this period, images within China exh…

Reference · Wikidata

art genre for works that have as their primary subject the unclothed human body

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The nude, as a form of visual art that focuses on the unclothed human figure, is an enduring tradition in Western art. It was a preoccupation of Ancient Greek art, and after a semi-dormant period in the Middle Ages returned to a central position with the Renaissance. Unclothed figures often also play a part in other types of art, such as history painting, including allegorical and religious art, portraiture, or the …

Full text · Open Library

"In the present volume, Charis draws upon her experiences as both model and partner to offer a uniquely informed remembrance not only of Weston's nudes-which comprise the largest single category of his output-but also of the man himself. Of her first encounter with Weston's photographs of the nude, Charis writes: "Nothing could have been farther from 'Art Poses' than Edward's nudes, and I was fascinated by their str…

Image · DPLA

Art World, Vol. 1, No. 6 published in March 1932 in St. Louis Missouri.