Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Nudes in photographs'

La métamorphose envisagée comme principe révélateur du nu laisse apparaître la réalité ambiguë de son existence plastique, la situant dans un entre-deux permanent oscillant entre accès et détournement, monstration et effacement. Corps photographique ou pictural, il devient signe d’une trace, d’une sensation par son incorporation au sein de livres photographiques. Ces recueils intimistes, dévoilant les identités multiples du corps féminin, proposent une intensification du désir par la mise en suspens d’une étreinte métaphorique. Lié à des récits mythologiques, poétiques et artistiques, le nu métamorphosé offre une entrée particulière où la mise en doute de son aspect présente sa suspension dans une immensité le dépassant. Etendu, morcelé, établit dans toute sa fragilité, il compose tout autant de paysages à arpenter qu’à contempler, où le toucher répond à l’excitation visuelle. L’infime apparence du corps sous-tend la peau, transperce le regard en se déployant dans un érotisme éblouissant. Par l’inscription de cette surface-peau, le nu métamorphosé est cette forme en dissolution qui survient dans un éclatement du corps et propose une véritable géographie épidermique, qui s’articule entre révélation de l’intimité de l’être et pluralité des sensations
Transformation considered as a revealing principle of the nude shows the ambiguous reality of its plastic existence, putting it an everlasting in-between place that wavers between access and diversion, showing and fading. Photographic or pictorial body, it becomes the sign of an impression, a feeling by its incorporation into photography books. These intimist collections, revealing the numerous identities of the feminine body, offer an intensification of the desire by having a figurative embrace to await. Being linked to mythological, poetical or artistic tales, the transformed nude presents a peculiar entry where questioning its aspect displays its suspension in a vastness that goes beyond it. Stetched, broken up, fully settled in its frailty, it forms landscapes to be stridden across just as well as gazed upon, where the sense of touch responds to the visual excitement. The minimal appearance of the body underlines the skin, enhances its grain, enshrouds it and gives life to the unspeakable. Burning, biting, the picture and especially one of the skin, pierces through the glance by unfolding in a dazzling eroticism. By the inscription on this skin-surface, the transformed nude is this form in dissolution which occurs thanks to the breaking of the body and which presents a real epidermal geography that is made of a mix between the disclosure of the intimacy of the self and the multitude of feelings

Moins connues que Chez Mondrian, ou d’autres tirages devenus célèbres, les Distorsions de 1933 peuvent apparaître comme une série d’importance mineure dans l’œuvre d’André Kertész. La série de photographies qui la composent, vaste par le nombre, donne à voir des déclinaisons de nu qui n’ont plus rien d’académique, dans le traitement qu’en donne le photographe. Les corps, déformés grâce à un miroir courbe, surprennent de par leur modernité et leur caractère d’étrangeté, au regard du reste de la production de l’auteur. Constitue-t-elle pour autant une « parenthèse » dans son œuvre ? Il convient pour y répondre de s’interroger sur le contexte d’apparition de ces photographies et les raisons de leur création. Pour ce faire, une évaluation des composantes plastiques de chacune des images s’avère incontournable, avant que d’établir des liens et correspondances avec d’autres œuvres du photographe. L’angle choisi, qui favorise le rapport direct aux images en les plaçant au centre de la recherche, s’intéresse à la mise en œuvre des Distorsions à l’aune de la commande qui en suscita l’objectivation, tout en dévoilant comment ce cadre spécifique fut outrepassé. Le dispositif complexe employé pour la prise de vue est alors questionné, dans l’intention de mesurer l’importance et le rôle du miroir dans le dévoiement de l’image. A ce moment sont abordées, par le biais d’analyses à la fois formelles et esthétiques, les diverses typologies de corps, et leur rapport à l’espace dans l’image. Ce qui aboutit enfin à une vision d’ensemble, permettant de replacer ce corpus dans l’œuvre entier de Kertész, et de dégager les parentés intentionnelles dans sa logique de création
Less known than Chez Mondrian, or other famous prints, the Distortions of 1933 may appear as a series of minor importance in André Kertész’ work. The series of photographs, wide ranging in numbers, lets us see versions of nude, whose have nothing to do with academic, in the handling given by the photographer. Bodies, distorted by a curved mirror, surprising in their modernity and their strangeness, compared with the rest of the author production. Does it make up a "parenthesis" in his work? To respond to this question, we should wonder about the developing context of these photographs and also the reasons of their creation. An evaluation of visual aspects of each image is necessary, before establishing links and connections with other works made by the photographer. The angle chosen, which favors the direct images by placing them in the center of research focuses on the implementation of Distortions in the light of the order in which aroused objectification, while revealing how this specific framework was exceeded. The complex device used for the shooting is asked then, with the intention of measuring the importance and role of the mirror in the image’s corruption. At this time are addressed through analysis of both formal and aesthetic, the various types of bodies, and their relationship to space in the image. This leads finally to a vision, to put this body in the whole work of Kertész, and to identify the intentional similarities in his creation logic

The purpose of this study is to look at how the figure is imaged through the photographic medium today. Through this purpose I aim to explore the individual expression of the photographer in his photographic medium; the expression of the figure within the medium and the diverse practises of this medium in society - to build up an awareness and understanding of the diverse representations of the human form. The general aims of study are: 1 - to study how these three photographers choose to photograph the figure, through their technical, compositional and individual approach. 2 - to show how diverse the usage of the photographic figure is in the visual world. 3 - to expose an awareness of the photographic figure as transformation of an expression of self. 4 - to show the relationship between the photographer and the figure, the camera and the photographer, the camera and the figure, and the photographic figure and the viewer. 5 - to study my own photographic imagery in relation to the other imagery discussed. My research information was collected through: observations, discussions, literature and practical exploration. This study will attempt to draw conclusions, from its explorations, that will highlight the importance of the individual eye: that it is the individual eye that becomes the vehicle of transformation.

Orientador: Stephane Remy Georges Malysse
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: O objeto da pesquisa é constituído de vinte e quatro fotografias selecionadas dentro da produção fotográfica de nus femininos no Brasil, a partir do estabelecimento de alguns critérios, tais como a nacionalidade de fotógrafos e modelos, o suporte de publicação e o grau de nudez, entre outros, com o objetivo de criar uma gramática dos signos presentes nessas imagens. Num primeiro momento, foi possível identificar alguns modos recorrentes de apresentação dessas imagens: o "nu editorial" e o "nu artístico", que são os principais modelos temáticos dos fotógrafos brasileiros e um terceiro modo, muito menos expressivo em termos numéricos, mas que apresenta imagens mais densas em termos de conteúdo e questionamento de padrões pré-estabelecidos que é o modo do ?nu como expressão?. As fotografias foram separadas em grupos menores, para atender a projetos analíticos diferenciados, conforme cada capítulo, e foi feita a opção metodológica de análise imanente das mesmas. Ao final é proposta uma forma de classificação da produção de fotografias de nus conforme o conteúdo e sua abordagem, como alternativa para a percepção aparentemente exclusiva de conteúdo erótico e abordagem comercial
Abstract: The object of the research is constituted of twenty-four photographs selected among the photographic output of female nudes in Brazil, from the establishment of some criteria, such as the nationality of photographers and models, the support of publication and the rank of bareness, between others, with the objective of creating a grammar of the present signs in those images. In a first moment, was possible to identify some recurring ways of presentation of those images: the "editorial nude" and the "artistic nude", that are the main thematic models of the Brazilian photographers and a third way, a lot less expressive in quantity, but which presents denser images considering content and questioning of pre-established standards which is "nude as expression". The photographs were separated in smaller groups, to attend an analytic differentiated project, according to each chapter, and the methodological option made was of immanent analysis. To sum up, the purpose was to classify photographs of nudes output according to the content and approach, as an alternative to the apparently exclusive perception of erotic content and commercial approach
Mestrado
Mestre em Multimeios

Laura Aguilar, John Coplans, and Carla Williams explore, through photographic self-portraiture, the representation of unconventional bodies. Even though the images produced by these artists are quite different in style, they all reflect an interest in a representation of the nude human body that challenges the traditional concepts of beauty so prevalent in a Western society obsessed with physical perfection. Even though the three artists produced their photographic self-portraits at roughly the same time, using the traditional gelatin silver process and responding to standards of classical beauty, their divergent life experiences, education, and social backgrounds have led them to question an almost universal vision of the perfect body from a broad spectrum of perspectives.

Cette thèse propose une étude posant les bases et les origines de l’œuvre photographique de Lucien Clergue afin d’en permettre un meilleur positionnement dans l’histoire de la photographie. Une étude et des recherches qui n’avaient jamais été entreprises jusqu’à présent. Les éléments biographiques de la première partie ont été établis à l’aide de documents inédits issus de fonds privés, celui d’André Bernard particulièrement, mis à ma disposition pour étayer ce travail. Ils permettent de couvrir toute l’enfance de Lucien Clergue jusqu’à ces premières photographies. La seconde partie constitue le cœur de la thèse. En m’appuyant sur la production photographique et un très important fonds documentaire, j’établis de quelle manière et avec quels soutiens, particulièrement ceux de Pablo Picasso et Jean Cocteau, une œuvre se construit entre 1953 et 1965 et s’affirme comme esthétique du contre-jour. Ensuite, j’apporte une synthèse de l’évolution de l’œuvre, ses thèmes, ses déclinaisons, sa diffusion, notamment bibliophilique, et les actions transverses de Lucien Clergue ayant favorisé l’émergence de Manitas de Plata, et l’épanouissement de la photographie, en lien avec les Rencontres d’Arles. Les éléments avancés ont été confirmés par récolement ou recherches dans des documents contemporains des faits, ce qui a permis d’en rétablir le cours véritable, certains ayant été dénaturés par de multiples répétitions ou parfois par les qualités de conteur de Lucien Clergue. Cette thèse détermine également la réelle incidence des acteurs directs ou indirects ayant contribué à l’existence de cette œuvre photographique dont l’ossature repose sur une dramaturgie intrinsèque
This thesis, presents the foudations and origines of the work in pohtography of Lucien Clergue in order to better relate it in the history of photography. An overall study and many researches that have never been done until now. The biographical elements used in the first part have never been published and come solely from private funds, particulary that of André Bernard, they have been available to me to corroborate my work. These elements allow to cover Lucien Clergue’s childhood up to his first photographs. The second part is the heart of the thesis, it is where, by relying on his photographic production and a very broad source base, I am able to establish inwhich manner and with what supports, particulary those of Pablo Picaso and Jean Cocteau, a life’s work is being built between 1953 and 1965 and emerges as the esthetic of the backlit. Then, I bring forward a synthesis of the evolution of the work, its principal recurring themes, its variations, its diffusion mostly bibliophily, as well as other various actions of Lucien Clergue which promoted the uprising of Manitas de Plata, and the blossoming of photography, relying on the « Rencontres Internationales de la photographie d’Arles ».All the elements put forward have been confirmed by retracing or research from contemporary documents of pure facts, which enabled to establish their real occurrence, as some had been relieved of their true nature by multiple repetitions or at times the narrative talent of Lucien Clergue. This thesis also determines the role that each actor played directly or indirectly and contribute to the existence of this photographic work with a blackbone that does rely intrinsically dramaturgy

Análise da produção da imagem da mulher enquanto mercadoria na era moderna. O imaginário erótico na sociedade de consumo, na mídia gráfica do Século XIX ao Século XX. A imagem técnica e suas relações com a pintura acadêmica na representação da figura feminina e do nu, pela fotografia, cinema, ilustração e cartum. A pin-up sua origem e suas variações.
Analysis of the production of the female image as a commodity in modern age. The erotic imagery in the consumer society, in the graphic media from XIX to XX century. The technical image and its relation with the academic painting in the representation of the womens figure and the nude in the photography, cinema, illustration and cartoon. The pin-up, its origins and variations.

This thesis explores autobiographical practices and their relationship to autofiction, by focusing on practices of identity construction and artistic performance, as well as identity construction through performance. Emphasis is given to the ways gender and sexuality enter into, and shape, these practices by examining, in particular, the way they are expressed in Diana Thorneycroft's photographic performances. Chapter 1 discusses the history and key debates in autobiography theory, the ways gender has been introduced into the analysis of autobiography, and non-literary forms of autobiography. Chapter 1 also briefly discusses the (Western) history of art by women. Chapter 2 examines Thorneycroft's oeuvre and selected responses to it. Chapter 3 presents an analysis of autofictional practices through an examination of Thorneycroft's photographic self-portraits, thereby questioning the distinctions between autobiography and autofiction and suggesting that there is considerable overlap in their definition. The Conclusion briefly discusses agency in relation to autofictional (self-making) practices.

Tombant « des hauteurs de l’art dans la boue de l’obscénité » : ainsi sont qualifiées par un membre d’une ligue de vertu en 1912 les revues du nu, premières revues françaises de modèles photographiques de nu (1902-1914). Catalogues de poses à destination des artistes, ces revues sont à l’origine d’un discours académique qui légitime la publication de nus photographiques. Cette justification pourtant leur est âprement contestée et, dans une Europe en quête de moralisation, les revues du nu enchaînent les accusations d’obscénité. Placées au coeur d’un débat entre art et immoralité, elles pâtissent d’une illégitimité culturelle qui leur restera fermement associée. Elles sont pourtant de véritables réflecteurs de mentalités. Recueils de nus majoritairement féminins, le discours qu’elles livrent par l’image comme par le texte relaie les constructions idéologiques qui dominent leur société tout en contribuant peut-être à les former : le langage y est celui d’une domination à la fois masculine, blanche et virile. Les corps sont posés, imposés et exposés par les revues du nu qui en font un produit de consommation charnel, le pilier d’une prostitution visuelle. Ce faisant, les revues du nu sont les actrices d’un érotisme de masse dont la tradition académique, sur laquelle elles appuyaient leur argument, se fait vernis légitimant. Objets d’art et de société, elles sont au coeur d’une histoire des corps et de la sexualité, d’une histoire des représentations et des mentalités
Falling “from the heights of art in the mud of obscenity”: this is how the revues du nu, the first French magazines of nude photographic models (1902-1914), are qualified in 1912 by a member of a morality league. Sold as catalogues of poses for artists, the revues du nu are at the origin of an academic discourse that legitimizes the publication of nude photography. However, this justification is bitterly contested in the era of a Europe in search of moralization, and these publications are therefore subject to accusations of obscenity. Placed at the heart of a debate between art and immorality, the subject suffers from a cultural illegitimacy that will remain, throughout time, associated to them. They are, however, true reflectors of the mentalities of the time. Being collections of predominantly female nudes, the discourse they deliver through both the images and text relays the ideological constructions that dominate their society, while, perhaps, contributing to the latter in shaping them: the language used is one of a masculine, white and virile man. Bodies are posed, imposed and exposed by the revues du nu, turning them into a carnal consumer product, the pillar of a visual prostitution. In doing so, the nude magazines are the actors of a mass eroticism whose academic tradition, on which they based their argument, reaffirms their legitimacy. Objects of art and of society, they are at the heart of a history of bodies and of sexuality, a history of representations and of mentalities

Moments of Absorption explores the conceptual and visual themes that are presented in my MFA thesis exhibition. The research looks into the absorption of the nude subject, the gestures that communicate this absorption, and the domestic space as a stage for the presentation of these gestures. This work investigates a tension between the theatrical and the natural as represented by images.

Eggplant Emoji is a documentary film that reveals a range of feminist perspectives on dick pics, sexting and online sexual harassment. Through intimate and hilarious interviews with women between the ages of 22 and 35, the film harnesses a collective voice that speaks back to the large and small ways patriarchy wields power in modern spaces, especially through sending unsolicited dick pics. By intertwining the testimonies of a dynamic group of female storytellers sitting amongst their close friends, the film provides candid and diverse commentary on this unique moment we are in, where the lines between private and public, online and offline are increasingly blurred. Until there are greater consequences, whether legal, social or otherwise, for men disrespecting women's choices and personal space, the domain of sexting is in a self-policing state and women are left to expend emotional labor to let men know why what they sent is unwanted or violating. Ultimately, the subjects' testimonials coalesce to provide suggestions for respectful, consensual sexting practices and fill in the gaps where sex education often neglects the importance of consent and communication altogether.

The work of Canadian contemporary photographer Michael Chambers is used in this study as a lens through which the experiences and views of a black, male art producer can be examined in the construction of the black male body in art. The text draws on the primary source of Chambers' black and white photographs, and the imagery constructed around black males from Europe and North America, which isolates the black body within particular stereotypes. A theory concerning the repetition of the "documentary body" is developed throughout the thesis whereby the black body continually functions as a symbol of violence, sexuality and strength in the visual and media arts. This thesis will examine Chambers' efforts to undermine the current cultural dialogue within Western culture that maintains the documentary body by using the very tools and imagery employed to create and sustain that body. Three aspects of the documentary body--savagery, restraint, and violence--within the artist's work are argued as intrinsic to the struggle to reassess and reconstruct the black documentary body within western visual culture.

碩士
國立臺中科技大學
商業設計系碩士班
102
Jan Saudek has said, “Nude” triggers the aspiration of freedom, and it is the best element for returning to the purity and the introspection of life. While the Nude Photography is accepted gradually by the universe, it is just not the image constructed by the sexual desire. The Nude Photography becomes another transmitter of our spirit, but also to raise the essence of the art. However, the most direct implication of the Nude Photography is sex. It can be the distinction of the gender, but also the expression of the intrinsic and extrinsic desire. The motive of creating “The dream of the libido” is to interpret the emotions and conflicts generated in the individual emotional world by the dual identities of teller and listener created by the expression of photography. Under the illustration of the camera lens, the libido obtains release and introspection. The objectives of the creation are: 1) Expressing the illusion and the imagination from the unconsciousness and desires by the creation concept of Fabricated Photography, Surrealistic Photography, and the post-production of digital image in order to create a new perspective for the Photography creations. 2) The intrinsic desire and inspection projecting on the abundant body language of the Nude Photography and the expression of camera lens obtain the functions of introspection and cure. The oppressive libido of the unconsciousness is released and sublimated to a positive energy. The creator discovers the expression of desires in front of the camera lens sublimates the libido of the creator, the supervision and the release of the disordered personality, and the dream spiraling between the semi-real and semi-unreal from Fabricated Photography and Surrealistic Photography. The linear creation comprises five parts: Exploration→Combination→Collision→Separation→Sublimation. The creation describes the release of the libido and the mental value after the sublimation. While facing the collision of emotions, it is attempted to remove the lock of the burden for the sake of obtaining a sublimated ego.

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國立臺灣師範大學
藝術研究所
95
Abstract Since 1960s, styles of fashion photography have been greatly changed and verified, moreover, since 1970s, sex liberation enhances fashion, fashion media and even the social atmosphere. Eventually, fashion photography is not only focusing on clothes, but also generates its own types and styles. According to this background, how did Helmut Newton (1920-2004) foreground gaze and female nude in commercial and marketing based fashion photography? The purpose of this study is to investigate Helmut Newton’s two major works and series: Self-portrait with models and wife’and The Naked and the Dressed, and to explore the gazes network and female nudes he created. There are two major methodological components of methodology in this study, one is historical review based on the insight of Newton’s Autobiography, and culture studies, the other is focused on the photography by using psychoanalysis theory of Freud, Lacan, and Jean Laplanche.

Author's name: Pavel Froněk School: Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague Program: Institute of Art History Title: "Photopurism" in Art of František Drtikol Consultant: Prof. PhDr. Vojtěch Lahoda CSc. Year: 2011 The present paper aims to explore fine art photography of František Drtikol between years 1929-1935. Most of these photos were pictures of artifical figures made by autor himself. The paper also tries to tell, if all of fineart photos of 1929-1935 can be called "photopurism" and make some of more distinctive of them known to reader. Drtikol's spiritual background is also examined and possible interpretation of artworks is attempted. Key words: František Drtikol, photography, nude body, figure, photopurism, buddhism, christianity, Antonín Mattas, Lehr und Versuchsanstalt für Photographie, Antonín Mattas, Georg Heinrich Emmerich, Gordon Craig

Nude through the lens of two male photographers and two female photographers: Jan Saudek, Robert Vano, Tereza of Davle, Michaela Brachtlová Presented diploma thesis deals with display of the female and male nude in photography from the perspective of four selected photographers, which are Jan Saudek, Robert Vano, Tereza of Davle and Michaela Brachtlová. This work is mainly focused on their photographic work, which is primarily focused on this photographic genre.The purpose of this work is to compare and evaluate the similarities and differences in the display of naked male and female body by the lens these men and women. I will focus on the issues of eroticism, vulgarity or influence a sexual orientation to above mentioned artists on their photographic work. The work will contain an interview with these artists and artist.