Category: nude study, Aktstudie, étude de nu, estudi de nu, studio nudo
Nude study by Josef Vetrovsky
Aktstudie von Josef Vetrovsky
Der Wiener Akt, Serie I · 1906
Der Wiener Akt, Serie I. Fotografische Aufnahmen nach der Natur gestellt von Kunstmaler Eduard Büchler aufgenommen von Johann Riediger (Deckeltitel)
Seltenes Mappenwerk mit 24 Aktphotographien nach Motiven des Wiener Jugendstilmalers Eduard Büchler (1861-1958)
Rare portfolio with 24 nude photographs based on motifs by the Viennese Art Nouveau painter Eduard Büchler (1861-1958).
Morning Notebook · 1939
Alvarez Bravo hired a young female model to pose for him while he was teaching photography at the Academia de San Carlos (Academy of San Carlos) in Mexico City in 1937. Over the course of the next few years he created a series of figure studies that are noteworthy for their simple yet powerful compositions. In this picture Alvarez Bravo positioned the young woman on a fabric covered table against a plain white wall. He achieved a balance between divergent elements–stasis and dynamism, tension and relaxation, and positive and negative space.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo directed this model to pose with her head dramatically turned upward. The young woman’s unnatural posture encouraged the presumably male viewer to gaze freely at her eroticized form; her averted face denied her the opportunity to return and confirm the gaze. This pose belongs to an academic tradition of representing women as objects of desire.
Alvarez Bravo produced a series of nude photographs depicting this model. He called the series Morning Notebook, suggesting that the female body was a construction that could be documented and then read like words on a page. During this period, many Surrealist artists, whose work influenced Alvarez Bravo, used the female form in much the same way–for clearly visible consumption. (text quoted from Getty Museum)
(*) Secondary inscription on verso: “Cuaderno de la Mañana (Dicha Puerta)” and “# 8”
Swedish woman by Goodwin
She strongly resembles Goodwin’s model Carin B.
Brassaï · Nu de dos
Drtikol modernist nudes
Czech Avant-Garde (2023) at Gitterman Gallery (NY)
Gitterman gallery presents a selection of avant-garde Czech photography with a focus on rare vintage works by two seminal figures, František Drtikol and Josef Sudek. Each created exquisite prints that added dimension to their innovative visions.
František Drtikol’s (1883-1961) photographs are distinctly emblematic of the Art Deco period (1920s and 30s) by merging styles of Symbolism, Pictorialism, and Modernism. These two photos are an example of his best known works: Pictorial images of nudes in Modernist (Art decó) stagings.