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Yasuhiro Ishimoto

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For nearly a year since Yasuhiro Ishimoto died at the age of ninety. Ishimoto was one of the leading figures in the renaissance of photography in Japan in the years immediately after the Second World War. Born in the USA he first entered Japan with his parents when he was three years old, his father was a farmer and in spite of his desire to become an engineer he began studying agriculture in high school. When the war with Manchuria threatened in 1939 his mother, as he had been born in the United States, succeeded in arranging for him to return to the US immediately following his graduation from high school, and thus he was able to avoid conscription into the army. Initially he continued his studies in agriculture in San Francisco. His studies were interrupted by the war and he was interned at the Amache Camp in Colorado. It was here that he first developed his interest in photography. Upon his release from internment he settled in Chicago as he was still forbidden by the US government to live on the coast as he had taken part in military drills while at high school in Japan; it was an intersection of arbitrary events that he was later to recognize as having been instrumental in his formative years as it made it possible for him to enroll in the New Bauhaus, Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago.

Upon arriving in Chicago, a city that was to have a major presence in his life thereafter, his initial impetus was to study architecture at Northwestern University. Bearing in mind the terrible destruction of the war years in Japan he thought it would be the most useful profession. However after a few months he elected to change his course of study and enrolled in the photography programme at the Institute of Design in 1948 where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. His remarkable gift was already highly developed and he was successful as a student winning much acclaim for his work. He graduated in 1952.

Ishimoto moved back to Japan again in 1953, and in that same year he made the series of pictures for which he is best known, of the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto. Here he conflated his studies in photography in Chicago, (a programme set up by the great modernist Lázló Moholy-Nagy), with his innate respect for the traditions of Japanese art and architecture. Combining a modernist aesthetic with such traditional subject matter gave a depth and resonance to the pictures that is exemplary. The book, prepared with Kenzo Tange, and with the support of Walter Gropius, chose to present the structures as a modernist palimpsest and stripped away some of the more conventional aspects of the subject. It was an editorial choice that gave Ishimoto pause and he was to bear in mind in future projects the lessons learned in the process of editing the Katsura photographs. He revisited the project in later editions of the work and yet again in 1982 when he reinterpreted the villa in a majestic series of photographs in colour. His photographs have not yet been surpassed, they have become canonical, and the book remains amongst the most celebrated from its time.



Maurizio Mauri

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This photographer lives and works in Rome. He has studied “Discipline delle Arti della Musica e dello Spettacolo” at Università di Bologna. He has been interested in various art disciplines: he is musician, and has been working within photography for more then ten years. He prefers B&W technique and his creations are strictly based on simple artisan methods. In the last works nude is interpreted as graphic arts rather then romantic. The naked human body may be inserted as SIGN inside architectonic landscape or may represent a shape, an autonomous graphic sign, in the studio images.


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Waldemar Zagorsky

Marco Barsanti

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"I began to devote myself to photography in the early eighties as an autodidact, then some specific experiences in America have stimulated me to deepen my knowledge. In 1994, a meeting and studio photographers John Sexton and Morley Bear has allowed me to explore more extensively the content of the photographic language.
The landscape of my sites became gradually the main subject of my photographs, observing the natural aspects I discovered the beauty in things most common and simple. So I tried to describe as a rock or a tree may be other meanings. Today I feel something special in portraying the harmony of the human figure in the landscape, the female body, an expression of beauty and sensuality evokes in me a sense of belonging, of continuity with nature. The nude dress becomes the primordial symbol of our indissoluble bond with the earth and its elements.
Today I dedicate special commitment to technical and history of photography. "

Richard Biardeau

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Richard is an artist multisensory and multidisciplinary with Eros and Thanatos as with old kindergarten classmates, who are affectionately stages of conceptual continuity plastic intransigent and uncompromising. Not without some hints of adolescence claimed R. relates, through scenarios anodinement raw or complacently cruel odyssey of our bodies swaying attractive to the carnal morbidity most confusing. They are naked worried, become aware of their beauty, who submit with violence, refusing a face.

Rodolphe Merdieu

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Ed Freeman

Gary Breckheimer

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GB is a New York City-based photographer, and has been pursuing his craft for over two decades. After attaining a BFA from Brooks Institute, he moved to New York City and eventually to Europe, where he was published in many international magazines. MAX Mag, Playboy, Vogue sposa to name a few, for his fashion and portraiture.

Breckheimer then made the transition from Fashion to Fine Art, and developed a propensity for Black & White imagery. He predominantly focuses on juxtaposing the perceptible beauty of the female form against our manufactured environment. His intent, he explains, “is to allow viewers to contemplate the relationship of man and his urban environment. Observing my choice of location, placement and positioning of the model, use of props, along with my use of light and lines, each viewer is able to surmise his or her own conclusion about the relationship of man and his environment. This is why there is an element of the unexpected, mixed with an overtone of solitude yet erotica in his work. As an artist, his goal is to create photographs where the story, the meaning is not immediately obvious, but to take photos that lure viewers back for deeper consideration so that his vision of man’s relationship and sexuality can spawn infinite conclusions.

Breckheimer has been recognized for his vision by numerous awards, the prestigious, International Photography Award for Fine Art Nude, The Spider Awards, B&W Magazine, Erotic Signature and others, and featured in many books & publications including Nude Magazine, B&W, Fine Art Nudes, Erotic Signature, Mammoth Erotic Photography, Art Collector Magazine and many others.

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www.garybreckheimer.com



Sylvie Blum

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Austrian-born Sylvie Blum started a career in modeling prior taking the helm as a photographer.
She grew up in Germany.
Throughout her life, she has been traveling the world.
Asia, Africa, Australia, the middle East, Europe, South America and the US.
As a child she already knew that she wanted to become an artist.
Her interest in art, fashion, architecture, design, pop art, music, movie making and photography became lifelong passions.
During her school days she started modeling and became a well known art and fashion model.
In 1991 she met legendary artist and photographer Guenter Blum and became his favorite model and muse…and in 1995 his wife. He was her mentor and teacher.
Sylvie learned everything about lighting, composition, darkroom techniques and photography from him.
Sylvie also worked with other international known photographers such as Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, Jan Saudek, Andreas Bitesnich and many more…
Sylvie took care of Guenter Blum through a terminal illness until his death in 1997.
Heart-broken and devastated from the loss, she left their shared atelier in the German countryside. She moved to an old factory building, which she changed into a photo studio and started working on several photographic projects.
In the following years Sylvie published several art books and her work became international known.
In 2005 she got married for a second time in Las Vegas and relocated to California.
Today she lives and works in Los Angeles in her WhiteBox studio.
In 2011 her book “Naked Beauty” was published by teNeues and distributed worldwide.
Her show Naked Beauty opened in May 2012 together with iconic photographer Herb Ritts at the Fahey Klein Gallery Los Angeles.
Sylvie Blum is represented by Fahey Klein Gallery Los Angeles.

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Britalicus

Herb Ritts 1952-2002

Jeanloup Sieff 1933-2000

Simon Bolz

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"I shoot nude photo series for magazines and capture
only what's necessary not to overstimulate you."




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Markus Arns

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Markus Arns PhotographerPictures taken by such eyes.
Emotions and moments to experience again and again. Itself a work of art. Born in 1972 in Soest photographer Markus Arns allows. 2001 started this rally his experience with industrial recordings, but they could never raise his full passion.

The passion for people.
The passion for you and me.

The passionate feelings, emotions and special moments on camera to perpetuate. Light and shade are an important in his work People and resources to noble nude shots so professional and unique will leave.

Yuri Bonder (1967-2008)

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Yuri Bonder died on May 1, 2008, the day of his birthday (41). He was born on May 1, 1967 in Chelyabinsk Russia, later lived in Tel Aviv (Israel).   Yuri Bonder was the creator and owner of the website PhotoDom.com.


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Eliara Borodina

Riccardo Boldorini

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Born in Milan in 1971, he starter his photographic activity in 1992 with the Murales in photography exhibit, a series of images on the walls of various European cities, Italy included.

From 1993 to 1995 he collaborates with a host of underground magazines, experimenting on black and white as a means of impact expression. Meanwhile his exhibits, mainly in Milan, lead to The other Milan (1993), Portraits of protest (1993), Ten political flashes (1994). Some of the most esteemed magazines, such as "Il Manifesto" and "Il Corriere della sera" publish his images.

From 1995 to 1996 he becomes part of the social photography group Fotoimmagine, becoming more aware of the surrounding reality, and leaving the most abstract experimentation. This leads to two group exhibits on current issues, racism and work: The dirty face of Milan (1995) and The voice of work (1996). Experimental exhibits include at the time: Warme Kuche (1995), Images of Grazzano Visconti (1995), Stone eyes (1995), Everyday life (1996), Danish notes (1996), The monster (1997), Playground in the mist (1998), Solitudes (1998).

Starting from those visions, the artist obtains images in which reality and experimentation mesh – such is the case with Mechanics (Rome, Hall of the Teatro dei Contrari, 1998) in which parts of a body are compared to the devices in a steel forgery – to the point where photography becomes a profoundly interior expression, never giving up, as in a bet, on the desire to experiment: so we have Hanging on the wall (Milan, Chapel of Villa Litta, 1999), a revisitation of B/W advertising posters.

Of late the search for new colors and effects finds expression in the use of a video and, from the sheerly photographic point of view, with the employ of different techniques: tungsten–coated films with daylight and chemical pollution to reach different chromatic choices. As a photographer he sets himself aside from the mass by refusing any digital retouch.

In January 2002 he has collaborated to a master course held by Jacqueline Ceresoli at the European Design Institute (IED) in Milan, offering a photographic display based on the city’s new iconography.

In June 2002 he has taken part in the master course Organization and communication of the visual arts at the Fine Arts Academy of Brera, with a photographic series on the abandoned areas of Germany.

He switches between artistic work and free lancing.

He’s been written about by: Denis Curti, Paolo Repetto, Marco Giovenale, Jacqueline Ceresoli, Federico Poletti, Eugenio Viola, Eleonora Fiorani, Roberto Mutti.

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www.riccardoboldorini.com

Mariano Vargas

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This photographer fell in love with the beauty before reaching the age of reason. Oblivious to trends, Mariano Vargas has been developed a vast and unique world that successfully combines tradition and modernity.

Mariano Vargas's work is imbued with the mystery that print surreal unforeseen but possible combinations, the dreamlike but recognizable, disturbing yet elegant eroticism. All supported with impeccable technique and compositional sense derived from the tradition.


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www.marianovargas.com



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