FC Talk season 2 episode 3
The third episode of this second season of FC Talk, my podcast about my Art Photography Vision, the generative AI issues about creative jobs and Vertigo part 2, a sub format in which I expose my feelings while I push through this effort into the art photography business.
A brief what's next section will close the episode.
Twilight of artistic nude photography genre: Sally Mann — The Eye That Stays Home
A profile of Sally Mann, one of America's most significant and controversial photographers. From her intimate family portraits to haunting Southern landscapes, from mortality studies to racial reckonings — a career of unflinching artistic honesty, told through biography, career overview, and personal considerations.
From the past a source for artistic nude photography future: William Mortensen: The Antichrist of Hollywood
William Mortensen, the great Pictorialist photographer of the 1930s, was deliberately erased from photography history by Ansel Adams and the Group f/64. A Hollywood veteran, darkroom alchemist and visual psychologist, his grotesque nudes and occult imagery are today recognized as a direct precursor to digitally manipulated photography.
Twilight of the Art Nude photography genre: Jock Sturges — Photographer of the Naturist World
Jock Sturges, American photographer and key figure in the Twilight of Artistic Nude Photography, built his career documenting naturist families across decades in Northern California and the French Atlantic coast. A master of the 8x10 large format camera, his neutral, documentary vision stands apart from his contemporaries — and made him a target of America's rising conservative extremism.
Announcing now the opening of my saatchiart profile
After years of studying, practicing and living, Francesco Coppola's experimental artistic nude photography is now available on Saatchi Art. 24 images across 5 collections — Light Painting, Shoot-Through, Zooming In, ICM and Body Details — printed on photographic paper, canvas, acrylic or metal. Open edition prints starting from €34.
Twilight of artnude photography genre: Bill Henson — A Vision from the Shadows
Bill Henson, one of Australia's most distinguished contemporary photographers, built a career spanning five decades on darkly atmospheric images that blur the line between photography and painting. A master of chiaroscuro and dreamlike printing techniques, his work is as technically compelling as it is emotionally provocative.
Twilight of the artistic nude photography genre: David Hamilton and his Lost Paradise
David Hamilton, British photographer and filmmaker, built a career out of a single obsession: the reconstruction of a lost paradise. Through soft-focus, painterly imagery of young women in Mediterranean light, he argued — successfully — that photography belongs in the fine art gallery. A twilight figure whose vision still illuminates.
Twilight of the Artistic Nude Photography genre: Robert Mapplethorpe - Perfection on the Edge of Darkness
Robert Mapplethorpe: a Catholic upbringing, a sculptor's eye, and an uncompromising pursuit of formal beauty that pushed photography into territories few dared to follow. The opening chapter of the Twilight era of artistic nude photography — where beauty and transgression become inseparable twins.
FC Talk season 2, episode 2 now live
Episode 2 of Season 2 is live! This month: why I'm leaving Microsoft Windows and Adobe Creative Cloud for a Linux-based system with community-built tools — and Vertigo, a new format where I share my conflicted feelings about a life that seems to finally be turning around. Is it safe to feel optimistic?
Caught in a dark dream – Elio Luxardo
A portrait of Elio Luxardo, the Brazilian-born photographer who became one of Italy's finest masters of light and shadow during the Fascism era. A story of artistic brilliance and moral compromise — his nude studies, censored in his own time, speak to us with unexpected freshness today.
Second consultancy with my Art Coach — a report
Second consultancy with my Art Coach - a report
I am thrilled to report to you that the second consultancy I had with Stefania Monopoli, art coach went very well and she saw the growth of both my imagery and my artistic communication, giving me green light for my near future plans. 5 months of work correcting communication, reforming my website, working on Patreon, producing new images and studying the master photographers of my genre of Photography well spent. Ad majora
Augusto De Luca — The Body as Form
portrait of Neapolitan photographer Augusto De Luca, whose work transforms bodies, buildings and faces into geometric events in light and shadow. From his meteoric rise through Italy's cultural elite to his metaphysical nude series Spaces and Sculptures, this is a study in form, method and vision.
A light for all of us: Joyce Tenneson
Joyce Tenneson, born in 1945, grew up in a Catholic monastery, studied painting, and came to photography through frustration with how male photographers saw her. This is the story of a late-blooming artist whose luminous, spiritual imagery of the feminine body became quietly essential — and somehow never made her a household name.
FC Talk seasion 2 ep 1
In here you will find:
What is the situation about AI companies and its development;
The situation with Luxury and Fashion Photography market,
The difficulty in Art Photography,
My strategies and perspectives.
It will be a really interesting year to spend together!
Shine on!
Into the Jaws of Commercial Photography – Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton bent the world of fashion magazine photography to his personal artistic vision like no one before him — provocative, fetishistic, psychologically loaded. A biography, an analysis of his imagery, and a personal critical perspective on why his approach, endlessly imitated, has finally exhausted its cultural moment.
The Last Transitional Author: Irving Penn
Irving Penn — fashion photography's undisputed master — was also one of the twentieth century's most serious practitioners of nude art photography. From his suppressed early studies of 1949-50 to his celebrated late sessions with the era's top models, this is the story of an artist who had to earn the freedom to pursue his most personal work.
To the roots of female photographers of artistic nudes 2: Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976): from Pictorialist soft-focus to f/64 sharp modernism. Pioneer of artistic nude photography who photographed the human body — male and female — as form, light, and truth rather than desire. Botanical studies, industrial landscapes, street photography, and portraits spanning 70 years of American West Coast photography.
Transitional Authors 8: Erwin Blumenfeld
From failed leather merchant to acclaimed fashion photographer, Erwin Blumenfeld's life embodied the artist's dilemma: commercial success versus creative freedom. His darkroom experiments with the nude—wet silk, mirrors, multiple exposures—pursued classical beauty through surrealist techniques, 'smuggling art' into a world that demanded only glamour.
StyleCruze Magazine Chapter 169 - Boudoir Special Edition is out!
The announcement for the publication of 5 artistic nude images made by me in collaboration with model Lorenza Caradonna on StyleCruze magazine chapter 169, special boudoir edition. Get it on printed or digital format on magcloud.com
Transitional Authors 7: ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ
Description (within 400 characters): Explore the life and work of André Kertész, the "little soldier" of photography who struggled for recognition but left a powerful legacy. Focus on his groundbreaking 1933 Distortions series and its striking relevance to today's social media era, body dysmorphia, and self-perception struggles.