The first time I met Peter Basch was in his cavernous upper Westside New York City apartment, facing the Hudson river. I had discovered that, among his many nude torso…
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Renée Jacobs' pictures have a combination of intensity and honesty that I don't often encounter ... She's making the pictures because she wants to keep them fixed in her head…
Lumas (Paris) is paying tribute to feminine sensuality with the exhibition Sex in the City and the work of nine photographers, including Michel Comte, Formento & Formento, Andreas Kock, Jens…
Bruno Bisang (1952) is one of Europe‘s leading photographer. After studying at the School of Applied Arts for Photography in Zurich he has gone on to work with all the…
This month Taschen is publishing a new book by the American photographer Ralph Gibson featuring some of his best nudes. Deftly composed and subtly provocative, these dreamlike and abstract photographs…
These photographs remind us that the Hollywood nightlife in the 20th century was a haven for libertines. The Ivar Theatre, opened in 1951, was a strip club, but it felt…
Nakedness is usually reserved to the private realm. We make sure the curtain is pulled before we undress. On the beach, we wriggle awkwardly behind towels to preserve our modesty…
As a starting point, I take two classical subjects recurrent in the history of art, fraught with memory and allusions: the nude and still lifes. The result is a strange…
My latest work is inspired by paintings of old masters from the 15th to 17th Century (Titian to Rubens). Over a period of three centuries, these masters showed that female and male beauty…
It's been a few years now that I've been living in Paris. It's been months that I've been undressing my friends, their friends and complete strangers I meet in the…