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Beauty’s Self: Forty-Eight Photography Studies by Walter Bird
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter Bird
London: John Long, No date.Nude photography series by British photographer Walter Bird (1903-1969) Near identical in format to the ‘Seen by the Camera’ series, however with a much shorter foreword.
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The Beauty of the Female Form
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBertram Park; Yvonne Gregory
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1934.First printing of the first nudist / naturist volume from the English ‘Seen by the Camera’ series, 48 photographs by the prolific husband and wife photography team. An introduction by the photographs followed by numerous critical annotations doing its best to put forward the seriousness of nude photographs and that such publications were for serious students of art and science, a long-held stance dropped in the second book of the series.
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Nudes of All Nations: A Collection of Forty-Eight Studies by Leading Photographers
Read MoreWalter Bird
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936.One of nude photography volumes from the English ‘Seen by the Camera’ series, this volume showing a variety of nude women from different nations around the world. About half are of European ancestry taken by well known photographers suich as Walter Bird, Perkhammer, John Everard, Hoppe, and Manasse. The latter half includes women from Africa, Asia, the Far East, and the Pacific, including a photograph of a Central Australian Aboriginal woman and of two Maori women. One of the most popular in the series, with numerous reprints, this is the first printing.
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My Best Nude Study: A Collection of Forty-Eight Studies by Leading Photographers
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis Jay; et al.
London: George Routledge, 1937.One of nudist / naturist volumes from the English ‘Seen by the Camera’ series, an anthology by various photographers with a lengthy introduction by Francis Jay. The photographers are: Angelo, Barnaby’s Antony Basil, Aurel Baugh, Lucien Beaugers, Pierrre Boucher, Brassai, Brucken, Chaloner Woods, Joan Craven, Dr. T. de Csorgeo, K. Dannatt, Dinot, T. Erik, John Everard, Feher, Yvonne Gregory, D. F. Gyulai, Walden Hammond, Philip Harben, Imago, Ergy Landau, J. Laud, Machita, Ella Mollo, Moreau, Helen Muspratt, K. v. Nemethy, Neree, Dr. F. R. Neubert, Bertram Park, J. Pecsi, Reiss, Reytm, Capt. E. S. Richards-Everett, Hilda Robertson, D. Ronay, Savitry, Basil Shakleton, Steiner-Heiniger, K. Szollosy, K. Wachter, H. Weisz, A. Wood-Smith, Yavasti, Yvonne, and Zuber.
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Sun Bathers
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBertram Park; Yvonne Gregory
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1935.The second nudist / naturist volume from the English ‘Seen by the Camera’ series, a companion to The Beauty of the Female Form. An introduction by Alan Warwick followed by 48 photographs by the husband and wife photography team. Though the second such book in the series, it is credited as being the first book to directly link its intent to nudism.
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The English / Scottish / Irish / Welsh Maid: Forty-Eight Camera Studies of the Nude by Roye (4 Volumes)
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRoye
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1939-1942.Complete set of the four nudist volumes, in their dust jackets, on women of the United Kingdom by Horace Roye (1906-2002) from the Seen by the Camera series published in the early years of WWII. Each volume with a foreword on the beauties of the relative land followed by 48 black and white nude photographs. Roye was a class above many of his contemporaries and this four volume set is a clear demonstration of his talents. All of the photos in this series are of a single female model taken outdoors in numerous settings from numerous angles, beautifully captured and well printed, showing an ease and enjoyment between photographer and model. Roye’s battle against the censors is on show as well with the airbrushing at times barely attempted.
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Decent Exposures
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Simon
Berkeley: Wingbow Press, 1974.“This is not a book of Nude Photography (pictures of people who took their clothes off to be photographed) but portraits of people taken when they happened to have them off. They are representations of an alternative or, at least, the beginnings of one. A sensibility. A state of consciousness where it is not necessary to cover your genitals any more than your face, any more than your feelings, any more than your love, any more than your human soul.” (from the introduction by Asa Eliot)
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Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th-Century Britain
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnnebella Pollen
Los Angeles: Atelier Editions, 2021.“Annebella Pollen’s richly illustrated study examines the idiosyncratic phenomenon of social nudism, or naturism, in 20th-century Britain, a place known for its lack of sunshine and conservative attitudes to sex. By bringing naturists’ own words and images to light, Nudism in a Cold Climate tells this little-known but fascinating history for the first time. From the 1930s, thousands of people appeared nude in books and magazines associated with the nudist movement, drawing attention to the cause, attracting public curiosity and inciting moral panics. Naturist nude photography offers a fascinating lens on moral, legal and aesthetic shifts over a century of dramatic social change, including national beliefs about sex and gender, ethnicity and class, pleasure and power. Nudism in a Cold Climate offers readers a fascinating glimpse behind British veils of propriety and a unique view inside an enduring experimental culture that sought to radically challenge, liberate and ultimately transform conventional attitudes to bodies and their representations.” (publisher’s blurb)