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A nude photograph by Félix-Jacques Moulin from the early 1850s
Early photographs often depicted the nudity of women like the one we see here by Félix-Jacques Moulin. Although any photograph depicting a nude body is a nude photograph, many photographers consider "nude photography" to be a style of photograph which studies the human body, rather than the person. A photograph of a person that is meant to be recognized as portraying that person, is called a portrait.
Nude photography is an art photography genre, and nude photographs often do not show a face at all. The line and form of the human figure is the utmost concern. Photographers sometimes use extremes of light and shadow, oiled skin, and shadows falling across the body to show texture and structure of the body.
Many, like Jerry Avenaim, prefer the lines of a body and wish to depict it as a piece of art. They often refer to their nude photography as Art nude or figurenudes to avoid all suggestions that their art work had any erotic intent. Félix-Jacques Moulin spent a month in jail because of his nude photography in 1851. Nearly two centuries later the same condescensions abound.
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