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.to
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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
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
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
Materials
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
Funny Feet
By Karin Rosenthal
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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
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,000
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 ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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 ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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 ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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 ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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
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 ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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.
Category
1990s Other Art Style 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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Karin Rosenthal Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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