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Item Ships From: Europe
Torso de Dimas
By Karla Hiraldo Voleau
Located in Zurich, CH
Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican) Torso de Dimas, 2019 Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo-rag paper 52 x 39 cm (20 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.) Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's...
Category

2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

"Peak of the Moment 2" Photography 31.5" x 24" inch Edition of 5 by Lukas Dvorak
By Lukas Dvorak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Peak of the Moment 2" Photography 31.5" x 24" inch Edition of 5 by Lukas Dvorak Pigment print on Epson Fine ART paper 2023 Ships rolled in a tube ABOUT THE ARTIST Lukas Dvorak i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Pigment

Untitled (Touching) – Lina Scheynius, Colour, Woman, Body, Nude, Female
By Lina Scheynius
Located in Zurich, CH
LINA SCHEYNIUS (*1981, Sweden) Untitled (Touching) 2021 Fibre-based silver gelatin print Sheet 90 x 60 cm (35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in.) Edition of 3, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 1/3 Print only Touc...
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2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Sir Peter
Located in Wien, 9
Barbara Luisi, photographer and violinist, born in 1964 in Munich is living now between Vienna and Venice. Her works on paper and silk present a unique and moving look at nature and ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Pigment

Brigitta 2
Located in Wien, 9
Barbara Luisi, photographer and violinist, born in 1964 in Munich is living now between Vienna and Venice. Her works on paper and silk present a unique and moving look at nature and ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Silk

"Aperture 2" by Jeff Robb, 30 x 30 in, 2019
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
Jeff Robb is a British artist, who graduated with Distinction from the Royal College of Art in 1992 with a master's degree in fine art Holography. Shortly after graduating, he was in...
Category

2010s New Media Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

Alina • # 3 of 9 • 42 cm x 29 cm
By Angelika Buettner
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Alina • 2009 • Edition of 18 prints in 3 different sizes. All prints are numbered and signed. Printed on Hahnemühle Archival Paper. Three different sizes are available, the series ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

69YK #2 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese Photography, Nude, Black and White, Art
By Nobuyoshi Araki
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan) 69YK #2, 2009 Gelatin silver print 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.) Print only Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-based photographer. Araki compl...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Portrait renversé
By Guy Thouvignon
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Name of the work: Portrait reversed Date: 2015 Support / Technique: Black and white pigment printing on art paper. Size: 28x42 cm Description: Digital black and white photography Sig...
Category

2010s Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Johanna • # 2 of 3 • 84 cm x 59 cm
By Angelika Buettner
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Johanna • Paris, 2006 • Edition of 18 prints in 3 sizes. All prints are numbered and signed. Printed on Hahnemühle Archival Paper. Three different sizes are available, the series is ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

American Contemporary Photo by M.K. Yamaoka - White Silken Threads
Located in Paris, IDF
Digital Photograph ,ed. 4 of 9 HP Premium Satin Photo Paper with archival inks Born in Japan in 1940 and educated at The Art Center College of Design in California, Michael K. Yamao...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Ink, Photographic Paper, Satin Paper, Digital

Jerry, Provincetown
Located in London, GB
Silver print, titled (verso) by Paul Cadmus, 11cm x 13cm, (33cm x 38cm framed). the work is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass. In 1937, the painters, Paul Cadmus...
Category

1940s Post-War Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

`Psycho`, Okurimono series, Tokyo- japan-nude -harajuku-girl-color
By Christian Houge
Located in Oslo, NO
Okurimono Pigment Print Images from the Okurimono series is available in 3 different formats : * 50 x 75 cm : edition of 10 + (+2ap) * 80 x 120 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) * 113 x 170 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) Each print is numbered and signed About the work : Work by contemporary photographer Christian Houge, from the Okurimono series. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays an important role. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays a Okurimono (meaning both “gift” and “that which is in-between” in Japanese) - is a word that binds together this comprehensive project developed over five trips to Japan between 2007 and 2018. The series explores the personal pursuit of identity, at times with an underlying darkness as Houge had the chance to be introduced to Tokyo’s subculture. In exploring this theme, Houge has ventured into delicate matters such as sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The artist wishes to question the viewer and provoke a reflection on topics that are often seen as taboos in our contemporary societies. The viewer’s own associations are important in appreciating this work where ambiguity plays an important role. The project started in the Harajuku district of Tokyo which is known as a center of Japanese youth culture and where Houge found some of his first motifs: teenage girls dressing up in post-Victorian dresses or ‘cosplay’ costumes to identify with a character of their favorite comics. Here, the desire to express one’s uniqueness is central and the photographer explores the tension between personal identity and aesthetics shared by all (or at least by the same youth group). In many of his carefully staged photographs, Houge’s models are masked, so as to echo the many social masks we wear in our day-to-day lives. In our post-modern information society, drained of wonder, these enigmatic masked characters also evoke the world of shamans and pagan rituals, therefore injecting a sense of mystery and spirituality that many people are longing for. Symbolism and the many references to ritual and identity in an otherwise suppressed society, may at times create a sense of unease among viewers. The Okurimono project also explores the topic of identity and sexuality in gender dysphoria with Japan’s nyūhāfu (the transsexual ‘new halfs’). Here, the quest for identity coincides with a search of femininity and body image which results in complex physical transformations. Viewers may look at these portraits not having any clue that models are nyūhāfu. Yet, the photographs are staged so that viewers are placed in a disconcerting voyeuristic role while looking at otherwise closed world. Shibari (the art of tying), which originates from the Edo period (1600s), is another territory explored by Houge in his Okurimono series. His striking photographs of female models tied with red rope on a white background take us into this powerful journey into vulnerability and surrender, power and freedom. Through tradition, symbolism and technology, Okurimono also explores the hugely potent symbols that help define parts of Japanese culture and national identity, between old and new. As Art historian Erling Bugge put it: “Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar.” The images of the Okurimono series share a ghostly, otherworldly quality. In reality and dream, ritual and play merge while the boundaries between the known and the unknown dissolve. Christian Houge – Now – Okurimono Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar. This is pushed to the limit in the technological and virtual wonderland of Akihabara in Tokyo, where shop after shop trade in electronic products and computer games, while a weird costume play, “cosplay”, is being performed in streets. A similar kind of simulation is being acted out in the district of Harajuku, where Houge found some of his motifs. There is no authenticity here, no western “essence” or “reality”; instead, the virtual conquers the carnal body in a purified play of surface, image and the hyperreal. This is exotic. All the while as we are conscious of these notions as pinnacle points in a western idea of the post-modern. But in this sense Japan has always been “post-modern”. It has always integrated the most refined culture and technology from the outside while somehow retained an identity for itself. So, what would this identity be? Houge takes the view of ritual and play. Indeed, Japanese culture seems to be grounded solely on ritual, in business and in sex, in its relation to nature and in religion. This play transcends the notion of authenticity altogether, unlike the West which is haunted by the “ghost” of origin and beginnings. In Japan, “now” would mean just that; it is a “no looking back”, but rather a flow of intensities integrated in the play and ritual of the ever-present, okurimono. There is no threat of being eaten up by western culture and technology here, for, like in Zen practice, the ritual oversees everything and has no historical drag. Japan becomes weightless, shot into orbit outside the material of earth itself. Is acting out the role as Lewis Caroll’s Victorian girl driven by a sense of nostalgia? I think not. It is a striving for a moment of perfected presence, in dialogue with Houge’s optical machine. It is the moment of Now. The girl, the Zen garden and the image shares in a perfection modified by small uncertainties, coincidental imperfections that become somewhat oblique points of entry for us - a discarded handkerchief or seemingly unremarkable shapes and reflections in the prismatic play of surfaces. There is a ghostly, otherworldly quality in these images, even in the fleeting blossoming cherrytree and the play of shadows across a concrete minimalism. The doubly exposed or reflected light on the lens reminds us of the uncertain beginnings in photography’s history, with its widespread belief that the camera was able to perceive more than the naked eye, like spirits and ghosts. In Houge’s images there are different specters, skeletal, natural shapes on the one hand, the machine and the virtual on the other. Here, like some scene from the film Blade Runner, there is an uncanny confusion and mix between the human and non human. Maybe the search for a perfect moment in the perpetual flow of things is a romantic or melancholic longing for transcendent wholeness, a drive that is harnessed in a rigorous attention to visual detail. This compulsive discipline might seem absurd to any western observer, while longing itself form a common ground and will ultimately be the basis in our meeting. Erling Bugge Bio: Christian Houge (born in Oslo 1972) Based in Oslo, Norway, I have been making photographs for over twenty years and new insights continue to open. By exploring the relation, and conflict, between Nature and culture, I get a better understanding about Mans` condition. I am interested in the consequences of Humankinds progression and how science often is the result of our conquering of Nature, both on Earth and beyond. Mans` ego, consumer society, the last remnants of pure Nature and identity are recurring elements in my work. I often juxtapose the visually aesthetic with an underlying uneasiness. This often emanates a cognitive dissonance in the viewer to invite deeper truths and personal references. Looking at our actions and place in environment, which we are so dependent on, is a recurring theme in all my exploration and can use everything from digital cameras to large format and panoramic analog cameras for specific projects. I have exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in my native country Norway, as well as the US, England, France and China. The series `Death of a Mountain`(2016-2021) is nominated for the 2021 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, as well as receiving an arts grant from Norwegian Arts Council. Most recently, my series `Residence of Impermanence` 2017-2019 has been exhibited at five museums and several galleries already (including a solo show at Fotografiska, Stockholm (2019), and Les Recontres d`Arles, Haugar Artmuseum, Preus Muaeum of Photography and 2019 (Galerie Omnius, Arles). In 2021, this series received ten nominations for the Prix Pictet Award with the theme FIRE. `Residence of Impermanence` is currently exhibited at the UCR: California Museum of Photography in Los Angeles with the exhibition `Facing Fire,` Art, Wildfire and The End of Nature in the New West...
Category

2010s Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

"Nightfall 19", photography by Jeff Robb (27x21'), 2019
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Nightfall 19", 3D lenticular print, framed, by Jeff Robb. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an illusion of dep...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

"Nightfall 11", photography by Jeff Robb (47x35'), 2019
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Nightfall 11", 3D lenticular print, framed by Jeff Robb. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an illusion of dept...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

Not titled yet, from the series 'A Gaze of One's Own‘ – Brigitte Lustenberger
By Brigitte Lustenberger
Located in Zurich, CH
Brigitte LUSTENBERGER (*1969, Switzerland) Not titled yet, from the series 'A Gaze of One's Own‘, 2021 Silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Sheet 70 x 70 cm (27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.) Edition of 5, plus 2 AP; Edn. no. 1/5 print only Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Brigitte studied at Zurich University and received her MA in Social and Photo History in 1996. In the following years she established herself as an fine art photographer. She moved to New York and received her MFA in Fine Art Photography and Related Media at Parsons The New School of Design in 2007. The main issues in her works lie in her interest in the study of the gaze, the interplay between absence and presence in a photographic image, and the fact that the reading of a photograph is most often triggered by a collective memory. She explores the media itself and its close connection to themes like decay, memory, death and transitoriness. Brigitte Lustenberger has shown nationally and internationally in both solo and group shows. She had Solo Shows at the Museée de l’Elysée in Lausanne/Switzerland, at Walter Keller’s Scalo Gallery in Zurich and New York, at Le Maillon...
Category

2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Pools and Cigarettes" Photography 31.5" x 24" inch Edition of 5 by Lukas Dvorak
By Lukas Dvorak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Pools and Cigarettes" Photography 31.5" x 24" inch Edition of 5 by Lukas Dvorak Pigment print on Epson Fine ART paper 2023 Ships rolled in a tube ABOUT THE ARTIST Lukas Dvorak i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Pigment

Wall • # 3 of 6 • 80 cm x 60 cm
By Angelika Buettner
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Wand • 1985 • Edition of 18 prints in 3 different sizes. All prints are numbered and signed. Printed on Hahnemühle Archival Paper. Three different sizes are available, the series is ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

The Reindeer in Lapland - Vintage Photograph - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Reindeer in Lapland is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid-20th Century Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historic...
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Power of Lapland - Vintage Photograph - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The power of Lapland is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid-20th Century Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

National Danish Gymnastics Team: Sky #17
Located in London, GB
Silver gelatin print (printed 2003), signed, dated and numbered (verso), edition '13/25', 23cm x 34cm (image size), (39cm x 49cm framed). (N.B. although this is an edition of 25, onl...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Unnatural Causes 29", photography by Jeff Robb (42x42'), 2019
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Unnatural Causes 29", 3D lenticular print, white wooden frame. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an illusion of...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

Hand coloured framed print of semi nude sculpture like marble statue of female
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, "Cleansing a Shrike (Blackbird’s Birdbath)", 2018 Handcoloured portrait of a bird-like spirit, immobilised in marble, cleansing in a sprin...
Category

2010s Romantic Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Glass, Oak, Paint, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Love-Dream, Love-Nothing #011 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Woman, Nude, Japan, Photography
By Nobuyoshi Araki
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan) Love-Dream, Love-Nothing #011, 2018 gelatin silver print 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.) Print only – Nobuyoshi Araki Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Rectangle 1", photography by Jeff Robb (31x26'), 2020
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Rectangle 1", 3D lenticular print, white wooden frame. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an illusion of depth, ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

"Aperture 12", photography by Jeff Robb (31x31'), 2019
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Aperture 12", 3D lenticular print, white wooden frame, photography by Jeff Robb. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

Original Photography Signed by Cyrille Druart
By Cyrille Druart
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Black and white original photography by Cyrille Druart. Edition: I/VIII Dimensions: 90 x 60 cm Signed and numbered Cyrille Druart is a French photograph and architect, a book abo...
Category

2010s Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

"Unnatural Causes 28", photography by Jeff Robb (42x42'), 2019
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Unnatural Causes 28", 3D lenticular print, white wooden frame. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an illusion of...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

67 Shooting Back #GDN179 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Woman, Bondage, Japan, Photography
By Nobuyoshi Araki
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan) 67 Shooting Back #GDN179, 2007 RP Direct print 60 x 50.8 cm (23 5/8 x 20 in.) Print only – Nobuyoshi Araki Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-ba...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Color

"Unnatural Causes 24", photography by Jeff Robb (31x31'), 2019
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Unnatural Causes 24", 3D lenticular print, white wooden frame by Jeff Robb. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

67 Shooting Back #GDN019 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Woman, Bondage, Japan, Photography
By Nobuyoshi Araki
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan) 67 Shooting Back #GDN019, 2007 RP Direct print 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.) Print only – Nobuyoshi Araki Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-ba...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Color

Imagine Françoise Benomar Contemporary African photography nude landscape tree
Located in Paris, FR
Black and white photography 2/5 Hand-signed and dated by the artist Françoise Benomar “What photography has to say” " I photograph so that the favo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital Pigment

Nu de dos
By Guy Thouvignon
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Name of the work: Nu de dos Date: 2013 Support / Technique: Black and white pigment printing on art paper. Size: 28x42 cm Description: Digital black and whit...
Category

2010s Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

"Unnatural Causes 2", photography by Jeff Robb (31x31'), 2019
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Unnatural Causes 2", 3D lenticular print, white wooden frame by Jeff Robb. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

American Contemporary Photo by Michael K. Yamaoka - Beside A Roman Wall
Located in Paris, IDF
Digital Photograph ed. 2 of 9 HP Premium Satin Photo Paper with archival inks Born in Japan in 1940 and educated at The Art Center College of Design in California, Michael K. Yamao...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Ink, Photographic Paper, Satin Paper, Digital

Ghost Souls III • # 1 of 3 • 81 cm x 118 cm
By Angelika Buettner
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Ghost Souls III • 2022 • Edition of 18 prints in 3 different sizes. A collaboration of photographer Angelika Büttner and visual artist Laure Laferrerie. All prints are numbered and ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

"Aperture 1", photography by Jeff Robb (31x31'), 2019
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Aperture 1", 3D lenticular print, white wooden frame by Jeff Robb. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an illusio...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

"Aperture 14", photography by Jeff Robb (31x31'), 2019
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Aperture 14", 3D lenticular print, white wooden frame by Jeff Robb. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an illusi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

Love melt Françoise Benomar Contemporary African photography nude couple art
Located in Paris, FR
Photography printed on fine art paper Hand-signed and numbered 1/5 on the back by the artist
Category

2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Original Photography by Cyrille Druart
By Cyrille Druart
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Black and white original photography by Cyrille Druart. Edition: I/VIII It is the last available. Dimensions: 50 x 40 cm Cyrille Druart is a Fr...
Category

2010s Post-Modern Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Marie av Albert 1992
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
ALAIN DAUSSIN Signed by the artist on the back and certificate Format 40X50 cm Baryta paper Numbered /30 ex Selling price : 1980 euros
Category

1990s Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Paper

"Unnatural Causes (Tricolor)", photography by Jeff Robb (42x42'), 2020
By Jeff Robb
Located in Paris, France
"Unnatural Causes (Tricolor)", 3D lenticular print, white wooden frame. Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an ill...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

American Contemporary Photo by Michael K. Yamaoka - Firebird of Venice
Located in Paris, IDF
Digital Photograph, ed. 2 of 9 HP Premium Satin Photo Paper with archival inks Born in Japan in 1940 and educated at The Art Center College of Design in California, Michael K...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Ink, Photographic Paper, Satin Paper, Digital

Johanna • # 4 of 6 • 59 cm x 42 cm
By Angelika Buettner
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Johanna • Paris, 2006 • Edition of 18 prints in 3 sizes. All prints are numbered and signed. Printed on Hahnemühle Archival Paper. Three different sizes are available, the series is ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

`Nozomi, Okurimono series, Tokyo- japan-nude -harajuku-girl-color
By Christian Houge
Located in Oslo, NO
Okurimono Pigment Print Images from the Okurimono series is available in 3 different formats : * 50 x 75 cm : edition of 10 + (+2ap) * 80 x 120 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) * 113 x 170 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) Each print is numbered and signed About the work : Work by contemporary photographer Christian Houge, from the Okurimono series. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays an important role. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays a Okurimono (meaning both “gift” and “that which is in-between” in Japanese) - is a word that binds together this comprehensive project developed over five trips to Japan between 2007 and 2018. The series explores the personal pursuit of identity, at times with an underlying darkness as Houge had the chance to be introduced to Tokyo’s subculture. In exploring this theme, Houge has ventured into delicate matters such as sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The artist wishes to question the viewer and provoke a reflection on topics that are often seen as taboos in our contemporary societies. The viewer’s own associations are important in appreciating this work where ambiguity plays an important role. The project started in the Harajuku district of Tokyo which is known as a center of Japanese youth culture and where Houge found some of his first motifs: teenage girls dressing up in post-Victorian dresses or ‘cosplay’ costumes to identify with a character of their favorite comics. Here, the desire to express one’s uniqueness is central and the photographer explores the tension between personal identity and aesthetics shared by all (or at least by the same youth group). In many of his carefully staged photographs, Houge’s models are masked, so as to echo the many social masks we wear in our day-to-day lives. In our post-modern information society, drained of wonder, these enigmatic masked characters also evoke the world of shamans and pagan rituals, therefore injecting a sense of mystery and spirituality that many people are longing for. Symbolism and the many references to ritual and identity in an otherwise suppressed society, may at times create a sense of unease among viewers. The Okurimono project also explores the topic of identity and sexuality in gender dysphoria with Japan’s nyūhāfu (the transsexual ‘new halfs’). Here, the quest for identity coincides with a search of femininity and body image which results in complex physical transformations. Viewers may look at these portraits not having any clue that models are nyūhāfu. Yet, the photographs are staged so that viewers are placed in a disconcerting voyeuristic role while looking at otherwise closed world. Shibari (the art of tying), which originates from the Edo period (1600s), is another territory explored by Houge in his Okurimono series. His striking photographs of female models tied with red rope on a white background take us into this powerful journey into vulnerability and surrender, power and freedom. Through tradition, symbolism and technology, Okurimono also explores the hugely potent symbols that help define parts of Japanese culture and national identity, between old and new. As Art historian Erling Bugge put it: “Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar.” The images of the Okurimono series share a ghostly, otherworldly quality. In reality and dream, ritual and play merge while the boundaries between the known and the unknown dissolve. Christian Houge – Now – Okurimono Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar. This is pushed to the limit in the technological and virtual wonderland of Akihabara in Tokyo, where shop after shop trade in electronic products and computer games, while a weird costume play, “cosplay”, is being performed in streets. A similar kind of simulation is being acted out in the district of Harajuku, where Houge found some of his motifs. There is no authenticity here, no western “essence” or “reality”; instead, the virtual conquers the carnal body in a purified play of surface, image and the hyperreal. This is exotic. All the while as we are conscious of these notions as pinnacle points in a western idea of the post-modern. But in this sense Japan has always been “post-modern”. It has always integrated the most refined culture and technology from the outside while somehow retained an identity for itself. So, what would this identity be? Houge takes the view of ritual and play. Indeed, Japanese culture seems to be grounded solely on ritual, in business and in sex, in its relation to nature and in religion. This play transcends the notion of authenticity altogether, unlike the West which is haunted by the “ghost” of origin and beginnings. In Japan, “now” would mean just that; it is a “no looking back”, but rather a flow of intensities integrated in the play and ritual of the ever-present, okurimono. There is no threat of being eaten up by western culture and technology here, for, like in Zen practice, the ritual oversees everything and has no historical drag. Japan becomes weightless, shot into orbit outside the material of earth itself. Is acting out the role as Lewis Caroll’s Victorian girl driven by a sense of nostalgia? I think not. It is a striving for a moment of perfected presence, in dialogue with Houge’s optical machine. It is the moment of Now. The girl, the Zen garden and the image shares in a perfection modified by small uncertainties, coincidental imperfections that become somewhat oblique points of entry for us - a discarded handkerchief or seemingly unremarkable shapes and reflections in the prismatic play of surfaces. There is a ghostly, otherworldly quality in these images, even in the fleeting blossoming cherrytree and the play of shadows across a concrete minimalism. The doubly exposed or reflected light on the lens reminds us of the uncertain beginnings in photography’s history, with its widespread belief that the camera was able to perceive more than the naked eye, like spirits and ghosts. In Houge’s images there are different specters, skeletal, natural shapes on the one hand, the machine and the virtual on the other. Here, like some scene from the film Blade Runner, there is an uncanny confusion and mix between the human and non human. Maybe the search for a perfect moment in the perpetual flow of things is a romantic or melancholic longing for transcendent wholeness, a drive that is harnessed in a rigorous attention to visual detail. This compulsive discipline might seem absurd to any western observer, while longing itself form a common ground and will ultimately be the basis in our meeting. Erling Bugge Bio: Christian Houge (born in Oslo 1972) Based in Oslo, Norway, I have been making photographs for over twenty years and new insights continue to open. By exploring the relation, and conflict, between Nature and culture, I get a better understanding about Mans` condition. I am interested in the consequences of Humankinds progression and how science often is the result of our conquering of Nature, both on Earth and beyond. Mans` ego, consumer society, the last remnants of pure Nature and identity are recurring elements in my work. I often juxtapose the visually aesthetic with an underlying uneasiness. This often emanates a cognitive dissonance in the viewer to invite deeper truths and personal references. Looking at our actions and place in environment, which we are so dependent on, is a recurring theme in all my exploration and can use everything from digital cameras to large format and panoramic analog cameras for specific projects. I have exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in my native country Norway, as well as the US, England, France and China. The series `Death of a Mountain`(2016-2021) is nominated for the 2021 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, as well as receiving an arts grant from Norwegian Arts Council. Most recently, my series `Residence of Impermanence` 2017-2019 has been exhibited at five museums and several galleries already (including a solo show at Fotografiska, Stockholm (2019), and Les Recontres d`Arles, Haugar Artmuseum, Preus Muaeum of Photography and 2019 (Galerie Omnius, Arles). 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Located in Zurich, CH
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2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

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Located in Zurich, CH
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Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

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Located in Oslo, NO
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2010s Europe - Nude Photography

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20th Century Europe - Nude Photography

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By Christian Houge
Located in Oslo, NO
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2010s Europe - Nude Photography

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Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
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2010s Modern Europe - Nude Photography

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By Cyrille Druart
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
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By Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Early 2000s Romantic Europe - Nude Photography

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Located in Culver City, CA
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Photography

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18th Century Victorian Europe - Nude Photography

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By René Groebli
Located in Zurich, CH
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