Nude Art Photography

As an art form, n**e photography is a stylized depiction of the n**e body with the line and form of the human figure as the primary objective. Photographers sometimes use extremes of light and shadow, oiled skin, and shadows falling across the body to show texture and structure of the body. N**e photography should be distinguished from glamour photography, which places more emphasis on the model a

nd her/his sexuality, and treats the model as the primary subject. Many photographers consider an art n**e photograph to be a one that studies the human body, rather than the person. A photograph of a person that is meant to be recognized is called a portrait, and n**e photographs often do not show a face at all. N**e photography is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. Early photographers often depicted the nudity of women like the one we see here by Félix-Jacques Moulin. Many, like Edward Weston, Ruth Bernhard and Jerry Avenaim, preferred to depict the lines of a body as a piece of art. They imported from the terminology of painting the terms art n**e and figuren**e to avoid suggestions that their works were erotica or po*******hy. Robert Mapplethorpe helped pioneer the later works that deliberately blurred the boundaries between erotic and artistic n**e photography.