Naked Human

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They used the terms art nude and figurenude from painting to avoid suggestions that their works were meant to be erotica or pornography. Fifty years on, women are still more judged on how they look than men, and the tyranny of that internalised male gaze persists. But why does Pittaluga think it's important for contemporary photography to offer visibility to all body types?

Here is a striking, thorny new form of communication and self-presentation – and one that is, after all, purely visual. In 2017, Saatchi Gallery in London opened a show, From Selfie to Self-Expression, drawing the line between traditional self-portraits through to the humble camera phone shot, from Rembrandt and Van Gogh through to Kim Kardashian and Barack Obama. Only recently in Australia, an art magazine was compelled by its publisher to conceal the nipples on a female nude painting it had chosen for its cover.Combining my passion for photography and admiration of the fine male form, I attempt to capture, in the most artistic way, all that the body has to offer -- the beautiful and the mundane, the graceful and the dirty, the spiritual and the profane. But since the advent of smartphones, sending nudes has also become normalised incredibly quickly: any woman who's been on a dating app in the last decade will likely have been asked to share nude pictures with eyebrow-lifting speed.

Jean Fouquet is considered one of the most important French painters from the period between the late Gothic and early Renaissance . It’s an image that has enjoyed many lives since it first appeared on the side of a city bus – where it unsurprisingly made waves.Many, like Edward Weston, Jean-Christophe Destailleur, Augustao de Luca, Ruth Bernhard and Jerry Avenaim, preferred to show the lines of a body as a piece of art. But rarefied and legitimised as they might be, such nudes also – inevitably – carry an erotic charge. She is the perfect representation of the classic renaissance woman that symbolizes love, beauty, and fertility.