Annette Kellerman in A Daughter of the Gods, 1916.
Kellerman railed against the prevailing modesty restrictions in swimwear from a young age, lambasting the impractical nature of the bathing dress and hose. This culminated in her arrest in 1907 on a charge of indecent exposure on a beach in Massachusetts as her one-piece, thigh-high swimsuit was deemed far too revealing. Kellerman’s argument that she needed to be free from cumbersome swimwear in order to achieve unrestricted movement was accepted by the judge and the case was dismissed. The ensuing popularity of her one-piece (that highlighted every curve of her body) eventually led to her own line of swimwear, and the acceptance of the style left companies like Jantzen free to pick up the mantle. … text via: Theatre of Fashion
Zdzisław Beksiński - Nude, c.1955.
Greta Buysse (b.1942), n.d.
… The Photography of Greta Buysse …
… her website here: http://www.gretabuysse.be/english/index.html
Cindy Marler, from the Amsterdam’s Angels series, 1990.
Paul Blanca - Self-Portrait, 1983.
Sander Steins - These Are Not My Dreams, 2012.
Edward Steichen - Nude, c.1915.
… from Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, by Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, and the Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, 2007.
Sander Steins - Untitled photographic experiment with model Ingrid on Baryta, 2011.
Matuschka - Last Letter to Florence, 2000. From the Beauty Out of Damage Series.
Janet Noyce, Hats, published in The Face, 1982.
John Santerineross - The Corn Doll, 1999.
… from Dream: The Dark Visions of John Santerineross, Attis Publishing 2004.
Pierre Molinier - Marie-Therese, n.d.
… from Pierre Molinier by Jean-Luc Mercie, les presses du reel 2010.
Jacques Lemare - Nude #502, c.1935.
