Caught in a dark dream – Elio Luxardo
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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.

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Second consultancy with my Art Coach — a report
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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

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Augusto De Luca — The Body as Form
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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.

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A light for all of us: Joyce Tenneson
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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.

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Into the Jaws of Commercial Photography – Helmut Newton
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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.

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To the roots of female photographers of artistic nudes 2: Imogen Cunningham
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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.

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Transitional Authors 8: Erwin Blumenfeld
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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.

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Transitional Authors 6: Ruth Bernhard
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Transitional Authors 6: Ruth Bernhard

Discover Ruth Bernhard, one of the 20th century's greatest nude photographers. From her accidental start in photography to her transformative encounter with Edward Weston, explore how this Berlin-born artist developed her empathetic, light-focused approach that influenced feminist photography for decades.

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Transitional Authors 5: Emmet Gowin
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Transitional Authors 5: Emmet Gowin

Transitional Authors 5: Emmet Gowin

Presenting today Harry Callahan student and Princeton’s long time teacher Gowin. A Nature lover that found in the day to day life with his wife Edith the exceptional and the trascendent, even giving to the observer more intimate, carnal, images from their relationship. A tale of a loving life made in pictures.

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Transitional Authors 4: Harry Callahan
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Transitional Authors 4: Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan: a bright star in the firmament of American art photography and nude art too, thanks to his wife Eleanor. Another time, an otherworldly life and fast career development — if you can resist the sadness that might catch you reading this article in stark contrast of our own time and place, enjoy it!

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Transitional Authors 3: Lee Friedlander
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Transitional Authors 3: Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander captured everything from jazz musicians to street scenes, but his nude photography reveals the same complexity of reality he brought to all subjects. His work challenged conventions, showing the human form without idealization—intimate, layered, and enigmatic. A pioneer who proved photographers needn't limit themselves to one genre.

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FC Talk, ep 10 - october 25
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FC Talk, ep 10 - october 25

The transcription of the 10th episode of my FC Talk podcast. Art business changes, more focus, more emotive, more accessible, towards a more beleavable artistic. Website and network changes.

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Style Cruze magazine ch. 152 just published!
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Style Cruze magazine ch. 152 just published!

Announcing the publication of the second issue of Style Cruze Magazine featuring my creative and artistic nude photographs of model Lorenza Caradonna portraied with a manual focus in Natural Light and with my DIY Filter.

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