Originally photographs with images of female nudes created for artists. Through these daguerreotypes they can more clearly and in detail to convey the shape of human body on the canvas. Clarity provides a new view nudity. In the first case - a carefully constructed balance of the composition of the human body, similar to the art, the emphasis on lines and forms, rarely face enters the frame.
The second - also composition of lines and shapes, but with erotic overtones, where the main emphasis on the model and her sexuality. One of the first photographers of the nude was an English photographer Reylander Oscar Oscar Gustave Rejlander, , who is considered the father of art photography of the Victorian era.
He was engaged in the genre, portrait photography and erotic photography, creating a beautiful "living pictures. Auction site pictures Reylandera buy in the range of to pounds. After the liberation of the Moulin went to Algeria, where they filmed landscapes, portraits and nudes.
Now on the auction of his photographs are from two to six thousand pounds. Snapshot "Boudoir with two naked" Bassenge bought at auction in Berlin in , two thousand euros pounds. After his death, were found negatives depicting life brothel in New Orleans. Bellocq photographed prostitutes, half-dressed and naked. With these pictures happened mysterious story: people at many of the photos were deleted.
There are several versions: Either remove the photographer's brother, a priest, or scratches inflicted himself Belloc wet negative. But the photos printed by Belloc, have not survived. In the s, the negatives become renowned photographer Lee Friedlander, and published for the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Therefore, the auction can only be purchased later printing from negatives Belloc made in A photograph, printed Lee Friedlander, "New Orleans", and bought almost two thousand dollars 1, pounds in at Christie's auction in New York.
