Children playing in a pool in Dadaab refugee camp, eastern Kenya, on Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009. Aid agencies fear the onset of the rainy season will flood many of the makeshift dwellings, but the camp is already so crowded it is hard to find places to put them. (AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale)
3 weeks ago - November 03, 2009, 9:40pm
Immediate Family
Mann is perhaps best known for Immediate Family, her third collection, published in 1992. The NY Times said, “Probably no photographer in history has enjoyed such a burst of success in the art world.” The book consists of 65 black and white photographs of her three children, all under the age of 10. Many of the pictures were taken at the family’s remote summer cabin along the river, where the children played and swam in the nude. Many explore typical childhood themes (skinny dipping, reading the funnies, dressing up, vamping, napping, playing board games) but others touch on darker themes such as insecurity, loneliness, injury, sexuality and death. The controversy on its release was intense, including accusations of child pornography (both here and abroad) and of contrived fiction with constructed tableaux. One image of her 4 year old daughter (Virginia at 4) was censored by the Wall Street Journal with black bars over her eyes, nipples and vagina [sic]. Mann herself considered these photographs to be “natural through the eyes of a mother, since she has seen her children in every state: happy, sad, playful, sick, bloodied, angry and even naked.”
2 months ago - September 27, 2009, 10:02am
Look, real everyday bodies.
“What Lies Beneath” by McClain D. Swift
similar project: Naked People
2 months ago - September 22, 2009, 1:05pm
from Bob’s World by Bob Mizer
2 months ago - September 17, 2009, 10:01am
Aliciante » Blog Archive » Mulheres bonitas
3 months ago - August 14, 2009, 10:02am
“Val: Your little house is a dream by day.
Juliet: Ciao, Val. Watch the dog. There are cats everywhere.
Val: Enchanting! Such an intoxicating perfume! Look at the dew. This is dew, isn’t it? Such purity. My heart aches, it’s all so beautiful. I want to roll around naked in it.
Juliet: Why don’t you?
Val: I can’t. We’ve become so complicated, so uncivilized
”
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Giulietta degli spiriti (JULIET OF THE SPIRITS)
4 months ago - July 05, 2009, 4:01pm
(histoiredeloeil)
Let us welcome a clothing-optional world.
6 months ago - May 28, 2009, 6:23pm
“I’ve done nudity when it’s been relevant in the films I’ve been making, you know? I’ve made films about sexuality, and the sex in the films has been very instrumental to explaining or showing where a character’s at … In films like ‘Young Adam,’ the sex scenes are really sort of instructive of this young man’s moral demise. I’m interested in sexuality and sex as much as anybody else and I find it a part of art, as part of filmmaking and acting because it’s a part of life — a big part of life, I suppose. I’ve never had a problem with nudity in that it’s been relevant to the work that I’ve done, but I’ve never gone out of my way to do films with nudity, nor certainly haven’t decided not to, or stepped away from it in any way.”
6 months ago - May 17, 2009, 7:01pm
Aurelie Claude
Pic semi-related:
Did you know that in Barcelona, public nudity is considered a natural right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_nudity#Legal_position
They have brians, unlike most of the world.
6 months ago - May 05, 2009, 5:49pm
lii:
Vogue UK May 2008
”To Russia With Love”
Photographer: Mario Testino/Model: Natalia...
Indie and Daniela, Girls Out West
click for high-rez
Photo by Bruno Dayan
