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Today such images are standard - but back in the early days people like Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray and George Weston reinvented the nude act for this new medium called photography.

For us it’s hard to see these old images in this new and fresh way - like Man Ray’s contemporaries saw them in early 20th century. We are so much bombarded with images each day that we can hardly be as open and innocent as people almost a hundred years ago.

Nude act photography as well as painting and drawing are the grammar school of visual art. Here the visual artists studies and explore the human form - strangely enough mostly only the female form. You can find a gazillion of nude acts from great old master like Man Ray, Weston and Stieglitz. Still any young modern photographer has to go though the same positions, the same shots and compositions.

On the other side we viewers never seem to get enough of the human shape? People like watching people - no matter if they have seen that person only once of a thousand times. We are addicted to ourselves - our proportions and gestures.

So Man Ray once delivers another celebration of mankind.

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One of the modern classics. Kissing was hardly shown in art before the modern age - it was considered - oh the shock! - indecent.

With the modern times came new morals and loads of yummy kisses!

Usually I am not a big fan of such shots - but in this case I like that almost graphical style of the image processing. Very cool! 

One more of these undefinable images from the great master. Still beautiful and fascinating.