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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Transitional authors 2: Bill Brandt
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Transitional authors 2: Bill Brandt

This week we explore the life and work of iconic Anglo-German photographer Bill Brandt — how his artistic nude photography merged with the Surrealist movement through his radical exploration of shape, meaning, and emotion. A master who transformed the body into landscape.

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Transitional Authors 1: Edward Weston
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Transitional Authors 1: Edward Weston

In this fourth installment of our Artistic Nude History series, we explore Edward Weston—a pivotal transitional figure who moved from soft-focus Pictorialism to sharp modernist photography. Through relationships with Margrethe Mather, Tina Modotti, and Charis Wilson, Weston pioneered en plein air nude photography while treating the human body with the same formal rigor he brought to peppers and shells.

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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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Last BW with Ginevra
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Last BW with Ginevra

Last 6 BW lingerie portraits of model Ginevra Alombi from the now complete modelsharing event in Seregno organized by Fillory Agency last fFbruary. End of a season and transition to a new one.

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A new direction for my art business
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A new direction for my art business

The account of my artistic coach consultation where I received an apreciation of my most experimental artwork and indications to correct my photographic focus, brand voice and my prices. This corrections will take some months to work, but I am exited to start as soon as possible.

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Final glamour shots with Lorenza
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Final glamour shots with Lorenza

With this six glamour portraits I close the modelshoot that I’ve made in june with Lorenza Caradonna at Raffaele Sorrentino’s studio in Garbagnate (Milano - Italy). Black and White Glamour Portraits in Natural Light, Vintage Lens look and DIY Filter on.

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Surprise! Some glamour with Lorih
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Surprise! Some glamour with Lorih

This first week of changes we’ll switch publication places between the 2 model shoots I am editing this month. Now you will start to see 6 glamour portraits of beautiful model Lorenza Caradonna portraited in Natural Light low key at Raffaele Sorrentino’s studio in Garbagnate (Milano - Italy)

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Ginevra in Black and White
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Ginevra in Black and White

Presenting today the second part of the modelsharing organized by Fillory Agency in Seregno (Monza and Brianza - Italy) with the model Ginevra Alombi. Black and White Lingerie portrait taken with my Pentax K1, the Vivitar 24mm f 2.8 MC and my DIY Filter.

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