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Denise Ward and Andrew Ward

by David Bailey

 

 

In the raw

David Bailey,

one of the world's top fashion photographers,

has never been interested in clothes

- only the person underneath.

 

So he asked people to strip naked for his camera,

strike their own pose, be themselves.

 

Bailey's Democracy's is the project

he has wanted to shoot for 30 years.

 

Interview by Melissa Denes

 

The Guardian        Weekend        p. 21

 

Saturday September 17, 2005

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/sep/17/
photography

 

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Laid bare: a history of the nude in photography – in pictures

The beauty of the human body has always been a gift to photography,

from shirtless boxers showing off their guns in the 1850s

to the trickery of Man Ray and the salaciousness of Robert Mapplethorpe.

Here's a complete timeline of nudity, from a new book,

The Nude in Photography

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Thu 26 Jun 2014    13.46 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jun/26/
history-of-nude-photography-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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