Category: nude, Akt, nu, desnudo, nudo

Jungfrau im Baum, 1903

Paul Klee :: Jungfrau im Baum [Virgin in the Tree], 1903. Lithograph after original etching. Titled and dated in the plate, on lower center. | src liveautioneers (double click image for high resolution)

Crouching Figure, 1933

Edward Weston :: Crouching Figure, 1933. Nude female body seated with knees bent and one arm hanging between the two legs. The J. Paul Getty Museum. | From Edward Weston’s Book of Nudes, 1953

Reaching Figure, 1933

Edward Weston :: Reaching Figure, 1933. Nude female seated with her legs twisted and crossed in front of her and her arms reaching upward. The J. Paul Getty Museum. | From Edward Weston’s Book of Nudes, 1953

Figure nº 1, 1951

Figure magazine, issue 1, 1951, back cover, uncredited photographer (Peter Martin, maybe) | source

Around Us Lie These Mysteries

John Dugdale :: Around Us Lie these Mysteries, ca. 1998. Cyanotype. | src John Dugdale Studio

Song of the Open Road (1856)

(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens;
I carry them, men and women ─ I carry them with me wherever I go;
I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them;
I am fill’d with them, and I will fill them in return.)

Walt Whitman