![]() ![]() Newton created an incomparable body of work, full of subtle seduction and timeless elegance, especially in the nude genre. His series Naked and Dressed, which marks the transition from fashion to nudes in his work, and his Big Nudes made him world-famous in the 1980s and inspired countless photographers and other visual artists to imitate or re-interpret them. Helmut Newton began photographing nudes in the 1970s, both independently and incorporated into his fashion photography, and worked in this genre until the end of his life in 2004. ![]() His photographic nudes, sometimes more observational, sometimes more posed, are as enigmatic as his films. In his abstract images, details often fill the frame only upon closer examination can we associate them with the human body and compare them to our own in our mind’s eye. Many of them are in black and white a few are in color. We encounter a similar visual atmosphere in the nudes of David Lynch, taken almost half a century later mostly in Lodz and Los Angeles. The images are subtle, sensitive, almost shy approaches to the female body and spirit. His female models were friends or lovers, whom the artist portrayed in his New York apartment not all of them are entirely undressed. Saul Leiter, parallel to his fashion photography for Harper’s Bazaar and the colorful abstractions he captured on the streets of New York from the 1950s onwards, also photographed nudes in the studio. ![]()
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