Modernist nude  

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The "Modernist nude" refers to modernist nude photography. One particular strain of nude photography of that period, is a celebration of the human body or parts of it purely as geometric shape, thereby displaying a certain level of abstraction of the human body, and can thus be categorized as being a part of abstract photography, as opposed to portrait photography.

Examples

• Nude photographs by Alfred Stieglitz [1]
• Le violon d'Ingres (1924) by Man Ray
• The work of Gerhard Riebicke
• Torso[2] (c. 1930s) by William Mortensen
• Les nus de Drtikol (1929) by František Drtikol
• Two Nudes on a Beach (1930) by Raoul Hausmann
• Distortions (1933) by André Kertész
• Nude (Charis, Santa Monica)[3] (1936) by Edward Weston
• "Modernist Nude #17" [4], c.1955 by Yoshiyuki Iwase
• "Modernist Nude #20" [5], c.1955 by Yoshiyuki Iwase
• Frantisek Drtikol: modernist nudes (1997), František Drtikol

See also

• The Surrealist nudes of Jindřich Štyrský
• Surrealist photography
• Eros and Modernism
• Modernism
• Modernist photography
• Nude photography
• Pictorialism