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Karin Rosenthal Photography

American, b. 1945
Quite unconsciously, a body/landscape motif entered my photographs, a result of living on islands in Greece during a year’s fellowship twenty years ago. I loved to watch the light change hourly on the mountains that joined the sea like giant birds gliding into water. As my photographic vocabulary evolved during that year, those fascinating surroundings rematerialized within my water nudes. Thus began an inspirational dialogue with nature, continued first in Greece and then on Cape Cod, where my settings grew to include woods and dunes. The infrared images, shot in those new environments, further explore harmonious resonances, as the body takes on the character of dune or atmosphere. My desire to photograph nudes was born of the water, of a passion for being in and meditating upon still waters. Wanting to make statements about human nature as I had before in portraits and street pictures, I sought a way to photograph people in water to create images of a psychological, dreamlike, and emotive nature. When I began the Nudes in Water series in 1975, I felt that water, the source of all life, should display an equivalent density to flesh, invoking a cauldron of creation and a visceral visual connection between body and nature. These motivations were to become the foundation for all photographs that followed.
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Artist: Karin Rosenthal
Santorini
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1980s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nude in Landscape
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1980s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nude Underwater
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1980s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Ripples
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Love Knot
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Frog Princess I
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1980s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Squiggle Nude
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Pods
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vortex
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nude with White Line
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Floating Hand
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Father/Son I
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dream
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Reverie
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1980s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Source
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Funny Feet
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1980s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Bottoms Up
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Ethereal Couple
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Dune
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dream
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 35) Signed and numbered in ink, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
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1990s Other Art Style Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Santorini
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in New York, NY
Karin Rosenthal Santorini, 1981 Gelatin silver print 10h x 10w in
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1980s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Lily Pads
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Lily Pads
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