The History of the Nude in Photography

The female nude — magical, erotic, aesthetic — has been modeled and painted since prehistory. It was inevitable that she should become a favorite subject of photography. This book visits the work of Delacroix and Durieu, Muybridge and Eakins, Charles Shenk, the Photosessionists, Arnold Genthe, Edward Weston, Harry Callahan, Emmanual Sougez, Ferenc Berko, Lucien Clergue, Ruth Bernhard, René Groebli, Jeanloup Sieff, Charles Swedlund, Marvin Newman, Bill Brandt, Frank Horvat, J. Frederick Smith, and Robert Wilson.