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The Complete Pirelli Calendars: 1964-2007

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The Complete Pirelli Calendars encapsulates beautiful photographs taken over a period of more than 30 years by photographers like Annie Leibovitz and Bruce Weber, among others. Their style and beauty reflects why this calendar is only sent to a very few people every year and it’s not for sale on a regular basis. I truly recommend it because you will find many renowned actresses and models that have appeared in this wonderful collection.

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2009.11.09 / no responses / Category: Nudist Books & DVD's
Karin Nude In Ibiza

Nude In Ibiza

Karin loves to be naked and enjoyed posing naked at a rocky beach during her summer holidau in Ibiza. Take a look at her great nude body now!
2009.11.08 / no responses / Category: Nudist Pictures
Sonia In A Nudist Video

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Click the picture above to see a nudist video of cute model Sonia.
2009.11.07 / no responses / Category: Nudist Movies
Elizabeth Posing Naked In A Forest

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Elizabeth posed naked in a forest near her home. She’s an active nudist and a beautiful girl. Enjoy her free nudist pictures!
2009.11.06 / no responses / Category: Nudist Pictures
Uncovered: Rare Vintage Male Nudes (Book)

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The ‘uncovered male nudes’ in this collection are often only partially revealed, as in the photographs by George Platt Lynes (1907 – 1955): positioning and shadows protect the eye form the full model image. Don Whitman (1916 – 1998) worked with body builders and carefully used the ‘posing strap’ to prevent viewer disdain. Likewise Al Urban (1917 – 1992) and Earle Forbes (1897 – 1970) focused on the posing Greek ideal for their Physique Images.

But with Plato (1925 – 2003) and John Shreeve Barrington (1920 – 1991) the element of eroticism in the art of male nude photography opened some doors: models were captured more in the privacy of the wild then in the studio and the freedom of posing choices expanded, but still with a sense of restraint. The images of Antonio Arabia (1931 – 1993) are more natural (models in the woodlands) and in many ways more erotic, and the images by Vulcan (b. 1921) and Robert Galster (1923 – 1991) invite the viewer to become involved in the scenario. Many of these images have never been published and Massengill provides a welcome bridge between the art of the male nude as popularized by the many practitioners of excellence today.

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2009.11.05 / no responses / Category: Nudist Books & DVD's
Two Girls Naked In Nature

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Check out the free nude pictures of these two nudist lovers walking naked in nature. Enjoy!
2009.11.04 / no responses / Category: Nudist Pictures
Nude Art In New-Zealand

The nude is the oldest and most controversial subject in art. A new exhibition in Wellington brings together 100 nude paintings, drawings and sculpture and proves that when it comes to being naked, there’s still more than meets the eye.

In 1958 New Zealand artist Eugene Fancott submitted a painting called Dora as Venus for a National Gallery exhibition in Wellington. The painting was rejected, not specifically because the woman depicted in Fancott’s painting was nude, but because the model’s legs – shock, horror – were more three centimetres apart.

“Even though she was viewed sideways, it was deemed technically obscene,” says Matt Gauldie, curator of the new exhibition Nude, at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington.

People may not be surprised that in late 50s New Zealand there were such rules, but Gauldie says the nude in art continues to be controversial, even though it’s been a subject of art since prehistoric times.

“It comes back to people’s vulnerability and insecurities, all those sorts of things,” says Gauldie, who has four striking paintings in the exhibition.

“There are some artists in this show who chose to deal with some subjects like erotica, some other artists that I’ve seen before deal with insecurity and vulnerability. There are just so many different things to interpret what ‘nude’ is about.”

Gauldie is an established Wellington artist, as well as, for the past four years, the official artist of the New Zealand Army. He gets some time each year to pursue projects outside his big Army commitments, where he’s expected to produce 15 works a year and can be covering exercises and deployments overseas.

Nude is the first time Gauldie’s curated a show. The crux was to celebrate the nude in New Zealand art, but also to “try to push the concept of what ‘nude’ can be”. To do so, along with the exhibition being open to academy members, Gauldie’s show includes himself and six other guest artists, highlighting the many different interpretations of nude.

It features works by Fancott, including Dora as Venus and four each from Wellington artists Marian Muggeridge, Mica Still, Simon Morse, Freeman White and Sandro Kopp. Gauldie is enthusiastic about each, especially the different styles and approaches to the nude.

Kopp is in demand as a portrait artist, mainly among Hollywood celebrities, since he began dating British actress Tilda Swinton. Like Kopp, Morse is better known overseas, especially in the United States and Japan, as a cartoonist and illustrator – a reputation he’s built upon over the past two decades including the comic series Chopper Chick.

His works in Nude provide a rare example of his paintings and, as a comment on body augmentation and plastic surgery, they’re menacing and hypnotic.

Mica Still, a rising star in New Zealand art, has a distinct take. Her paintings, awash with bright primary colours, mix the nude figure with animals and what could be animal-human hybrids. “For Mica ‘nude’ is more like an emotional statement,” says Gauldie.

All up there are about 100 works, mainly paintings, along with some drawings and sculpture.

Works by Muggeridge, one of the country’s top portrait artists, Gauldie and White are, on first look, more “traditional” in their approach, but on closer inspection, pushing boundaries. Muggeridge’s large paintings don’t flinch at depicting full-frontal male nudes, while the models for Gauldie’s four, include a heavily pregnant woman and another who is overweight. Fay, the model in one of Gauldie’s, has featured in about 10 of his paintings. Trust and building a relationship with a model can be reflected in the art, Gauldie says.

“We went to school together. I’ve known her since we were five,” says Gauldie.

“I had known a lot of these people for a long time and just watching them do their own thing. There’s a lot of talent here in Wellington. I thought it would be awesome to bring everyone together and put them on the same walls and showcase what kind of talent is out there at the moment.”

Most artists at some point learn life drawing. Gauldie says it’s an important skill, even if some artists afterwards put their nude works in a bottom drawer and concentrate on other subjects. For Gauldie, it’s those that continue to explore the nude.

“It goes right back to the earliest cave paintings. It’s humans in their most natural state. It’s also timeless. Nudes obviously don’t have clothes, so it breaks away from fashion, it breaks away from a definite time and place.

“For me, it becomes quite exciting, because when you’re doing these nudes, really there’s not a lot separating you sitting there painting a nude and trying really hard and somebody 500 years ago painting a nude, or any of the great nude painters.

“Basically, you’re working with the same body. Fashions change, technology changes, but at the end of the day there you are with a brush, canvas, oils, nude figure in front of you – and away you go.”
2009.11.03 / no responses / Category: Nudist Art
Katrin Posing Nude At The Beach

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Professional model Katrin from Russia loves to visit a local nudist beach to relax from her busy life style. Take a look at a free nudist picture serie taken at her local nudist beach.
2009.11.02 / no responses / Category: Nudist Pictures
UK’s First Naturist B&B Opens In Staffordshire

A couple’s naked ambition has inspired them to open what is thought to be the country’s first naturist bed and breakfast.
Domain Farm has been opened up as a naturist retreat by Mike Howard and Margaret Pate.
They bought the former dairy farm two years ago and lived in a caravan for 10 months while they renovated the farmhouse.
The couple then decided to open a bed and breakfast to supplement their income but wanted to offer an experience with a twist.

Naturist visitors to the Staffordshire Farm at Cellarhead can stay in a new self-contained log cabin with an en-suite shower room, use of a hot tub and continental breakfast for £50 a night.

The bed and breakfast will also cater for non-naturists.
Mike and 46-year-old Margaret, who have a 14-month-old daughter Helen, launched the new business in July and have so far had half a dozen visitors.
Mike, 49, said: ‘We’ve been naturists on and off for a long time and we liked the idea of opening a B&B.
‘That’s when we came up with the idea of a naturist retreat. But we don’t want to exclude people who aren’t naturists.
‘Visitors can stay for as long as they like and we also do day passes for people who just want to come for the day and relax in the hot tub or sunbathe in the garden.
‘The aim is to build a couple more chalets but we don’t want to get too big.’

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Mike, who runs his own industrial computer system business, has recently completed a course in Swedish massage and can now offer holistic therapy to customers.
Margaret, who works as a programme office controller, said: ‘Business is starting to pick up as more people are beginning to discover us.
‘We’ve got a couple coming who aren’t naturists and just want a quiet, relaxing break.

‘We’ve made it clear that clothing is optional. It’s going well and we’ve had some very positive feedback.’

Graeme Whitehead, tourism and marketing team leader at Destination Staffordshire, said: ‘I’m not too certain there is a widespread call for this type of thing in Staffordshire but good luck to them anyway!
‘Anything that helps to keep [people] holidaying at home in whatever respect is to be welcomed.’
2009.11.01 / no responses / Category: Nudist News