Phil Wilde’s nudes are all about composition, light and form. He tends towards a calm serenity in his images and whilst not always the perfect pose or composition, the relaxed nature of the models he uses means the end result invariably is perfect. It feels like he never has to try too hard to achieve these stunning photo’s.
I hope you enjoy them.
Hudson Manilla is an internationally acclaimed photographer who specialises in shooting the female art form. He is UK based, but regularly shoots in the United States and Japan. From traditional cover style glamour photography to raw edged fashion, to fine art erotica, his imagery always has a unique signature.
Appealing equally to both men and women, Hudson Manilla excels at capturing emotional as well as physical beauty, but he also knows how to improve upon it. In his imagery, a pretty girl is always transformed into a sensual and spectacular woman. Whilst his work has a strong aesthetic appeal, it also contains an underlying psychological connection and an intriguing narrative. Spontaneous moments of emotional intensity are perfectly captured, the models eyes intensely luring the viewer into her sensual world with such an aphrodisia of intimacy and seduction that the viewer can’t help but wonder if the image captured a real or imagined passionate moment of rapture.
Skin is often linked to notions of wholeness and completeness. It is not found only in one area of the body, it appears everywhere, not simply forming the surface of the body but responding to the body’s internal structure to create the terrain we recognise as the human form; following the extremities of cavities by turning inwards to form the familiar hollow of the mouth, the labyrinth of the ear and the knot of the anus. And yet, skin is not an impermeable container of the body, keeping in and keeping out; it breathes. Its very fibres are in constant flux by virtue of discrete and multiple interactions between the inner body and the outside world. It absorbs and emits, becoming a part of our immediate surroundings by sharing the breath of intimate conversations, the humidity of the atmosphere and the temperature of cool air. In fact, on closer inspection, it is difficult to define skin as an entity in its own right before describing its characteristics according to either internal or external forces. These impressions upon the flesh offer a rich network of interactions and associations long explored through the body in art, particularly, in discussions on the threat to identity that can arise from a border so constantly breached. Skin is both literally and metaphorically understood as concealing or exposing what is familiar, desired and accepted of our body image. It is understandable therefore, indeed necessary, that such concerns lead to notions of fragmentation, mutilation or fetishisation of skin. Skins two- folded-ness, however, its absorption of the external world and emission of internal properties can also be examined and represented as a more integral part of the body. The figurative work exhibited as part of the Fragmented Figure exhibition, arises from an enquiry into the ways in which the emphasis of flesh and skin in figurative ceramic artworks can be understood, discussed and demonstrated in terms of aesthetic properties. In particular, how the interaction between expression, representation, surface and form can create or prompt certain perceptual relationships suggestive of sensations or emotional states associated with flesh and skin. Included are examples of initial test pieces devised to establish common traits between clay and skin and the application of these findings to achieve more particular emphasis in larger scale figurative artworks.
Katy T – Jumping
I’d love to know what you think of my photo’s so please leave me a comment.
This image was take a couple of years ago and I had the pleasure of working with the fabulous model Katy T. As you can see she is very fit and very toned which is probably what you should expect from an ex dancer, but after making Katy jump into the air time after time after time, I’m not sure she’ll ever work with me again. The poor girl was exhausted at the end of the session – and I’m not surprised.
I managed to get loads of great shots from our session and I got to try out some new ideas – some of which worked and some which didn’t. I can only comment here on Katy’s professionalism throughout as she never called me anything to my face.
Now, of course, Katy has left the British Isles for a career in the USA and by all accounts is doing very well over there – so good luck to you.
Finally – as you can see Katy is a hardy lass and given all the snow we’ve been having over here in the UK I thought this an appropriate image from Austrian Photographer Simone Attisani… more from him later.
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Katy T in the Snow
John Tisbury specialises in erotic, fetish and artistic nude photography. His fine art nude photographs are memorable and thought provoking whilst his erotic photographs and fetish photographs are well known and sought after pieces of art.
He has the ablility to shows us the erotic, fetish, nude and fine art nude side of the human form.
The image below links to his site containing a collection of photographs from his portfolio covering fetish, erotic, nude, artistic nude images together with a series of landscapes. Over 230 images to look at and all available for sale.
John Tisbury is a member of his local photography club, Rushden & District Photography Society. He’s won awards for much of his work which he enters into national and international competitions. He’s also a member of the Royal Photographic Society, achieving his ARPS distinction in 2004, and he’s a member of the Guild of Erotic Artists and the Association of Erotic Artists.
His main area of photographic work evolves around photographing the female form. Tisbury loves working both in a studio and on location work, for both offer him tremendous artistic flexibility and inspire an incredible range of ideas and imagery. In his own words, “The studio is a blank canvas where you create and control everything, whereas the landscape we can only ever interact with it and never exercise complete control.
“I like to create images that stir the imagination, that are erotic, even raunchy but not explicit. The mind is so much more powerful, so its good to leave some things up to the viewers imagination.”
Well said John!
One of the few female photographers out there, but one who definately flies the flag for the female of the species.
Madeleine’s web site hosts ove 120 images of male, female, colour and black and white images taken both in the studio and on location. It doesn’t seem to matter whether she is shooting a moodily lit, sensual shot or a totally funky pop-art style – all of her imagery is inspiring, innovative and very beautiful. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Madeleine has been a successful, professional photographer in Santa Barbara, California, for twenty years where she operates a full service studio. Her background is in fashion, commercial and fine art photography.
Madeleine’s work has been featured in the New York Center of Fine Arts, and the Chelsea Art Museum, New York and her photographs have been published internationally in numerous magazines and books, postcards, and posters.
Recently a collection of her black and white photographs were featured in Asahi a fine art photographic magazine published in Tokyo.
My work attends acutely to the subject, whether it is carefully evoking someone’s personality or capturing that element in everything we see.
In her own words “Photography is the tool that I use to communicate my visual language.”
And now for something completely different… Sometimes, just sometimes you come across a site that is so completely different that you just have to keep going back for more. I’m not sure if this is just through morbid curiosity or even a desire to understand the artist. Maybe it’s just because I like the humour and the irony. No…. I don’t know why either – but I do.
Hans van der Kamp was born in Haarlem Netherlands. At age 7 he claimed that he wanted to become a photographer. The origin of his motivation was that he contributed magic powers to the photographer who — in his child’s mind — was magically scraping off thin layers of every person he photographed to reproduce them on paper. The only way to avoid all that voodoo was to stand behind the camera instead of in front of it.
After his 7th he would switch career options very often but at age seventeen he started to experiment with an Agfa Click and a dark room. Soon he was hooked to the medium. When he left home, he started working a day time job in a photo lab and in the evenings he visited an art academy.
Van der Kamp’s main goal is to make portraits and many of the nudes on his site that have often been described as provocative are portraits in his perception. Rarely one will find a photograph made by Van der Kamp where the face of the model is veiled, hidden or simply extracted from the composition.
Firstly hello and thankyou for reading this blog.
I started this blog for a few reasons -
Number 1.) To enable me to take time out from my busy life to apprciate the beauty of the human body. I know this is going to sound like a cliché but I really do believe that each and every one of us is a beautiful being.
We are all born into this world naked and without clothes and at the end of our lives will who we are be summed up by what we wear or by the laughter lines on our faces, by the stretch marks on stomachs that show the creation of a new life. Will it be our shoes or our scars that define us?
I love this gift of life and I embrace it with enthusiam. To share my thoughts with you all is my pleasure and my honour. I hope you will enjoy this journey with me too.
Number 2.) This year I’m looking forward and actually quite excited about meeting and photographing new people, creating new ideas, getting creative behind the lens. Lets face it 2009 was a fairly crappy year and so I’m looking towards 2010 with renewed vigour.
Number 3.) I want you to get involved with this site. I want you to feel free to comment on my posts and submit any sites that you also know of. If you’re a model or a photographer – get in touch. The only criteria for submitting a site is that it has to be great quality and must focus on the human form in some way or another.
So with that said, I wish you all huge success for 2010 and for your future.
Regards,
Simon
Nicola Ranaldi was born in Rome and began his career as photographer at a very young age, by working in an advertising studio as printer then becoming agency assistant. It was in fact as assistant that he was taken on by an agency who handled both cinema and theatre contracts thus finding himself in a position to accompany various photographers on their film sets, an experience which was to prove vital In particular within the sphere of the use of lighting.
After military service he opened his first photographic studio in Rome, working for the most part on advertising and portraits, (at the some time, it was studying at the faculty of Architecture in Rome). His career took off in 1984 after meeting the Art Director of a renowned fashion magazine thanks to which he started photographing fashion shows in Milan, Paris and New York. It was there, in New York, that he began publishing his first editorial shots for niche magazines. In 1986 he moved to Milan around this time he was contacted by a photographic agent who facilitated projects with various fashion magazines, both Italian and foreign.
At present he works on advertising, portraits and beauty, cooperating directly with companies and advertising agencies while extending his research in the field of glamour photography, preferring always to shoot in black & white and developing his own prints personally.
He works and lives now in Milan.
OK I take it back about colour imagery and pornographic connotations . I think William Coupon has managed to make the point perfectly clear. Black and White or colour his use of a single light set-up is superb. So simple and yet the resulting images are beautiful.
William Coupon is a portrait photographer from New York City.
His first photographs were photographs that talked – called “audiographs” – which were photographs that had looped cassettes behind a framed image, and photographs that moved – called “kinetographs” – which were photographs that were attached to moving motors. The “kinetographs” were commissioned for window displays at Bloomingdale’s in the late l970’s.
Coupon became interested in studio portraits in 1979 while observing lower Manhattan’s youth (his peers) and it’s present counter-culture. He decided early on to use a single-light source and simple mottled backdrop and, when needed to, would set this up as a highly mobile portable studio.
