nudes
portraits & other pictures
1970 - 1980
Updated December 2009
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Available print sizes and the edition limit are being marked in the label section of each image. (This information
is being added to each image during December 2009 with the addition of a copyright watermark. Note, all images
on this website are copyright and may not be reproduced without written permission)
These black and white photographs are from my early period of photography in Bath, Taunton and Oxford from 1970 'till I migrated to Australia in 1981
Missing from this period are images of the Bath Blues Festival, The festival at Shepton Mallett and the first Glastonbury Festival, all of which I attended, but something in my mind prevented me from photographing these events
So, what are here are mainly female nude black and white photographs. I prefer the term naked portrait to nude, but for web clarity I use the word nude. I also prefer the word women to models for the women who collaborate with me in these projects
Some of these images show pubic hair. However, there is no detail shown on this website, this is a concious decision
Prints are for sale as fine limited edition archivally processed silver gelatine prints in rag board mats
WILD ARUM - Arum maculatum
30.5 x 25.5cm edn 32
Arum maculatum, one of my favourite harbingers of Spring, also bears the common names of Jack In The Pulpit, Lords and Ladies, Cukoo Pint and many others. This image was photographed using a 270mm Cooke Aviar, I now seek to find old Cooke lenses for my current work
GLASTONBURY TOR
30.5 x 23cm edn 32
IZZIE
LAMBRIDGE PLACE
RAE
The location was an abandoned house cut into the side of a hill in Bath withwindows covered in leaves. These images are very black and white, but not much was grey in those days
I received an email from Rae after she found my website while looking for Somerset Levels images. As a photographic printmaker I have always stiven for interpretation of the negative and print quality over speed. Prefering to wait 'till I can look at an image calmly and objectively. On this occasion I really excelled in print delivery time. I made this photograph with Rae in August 1971 and posted prints to her in November 2007, exceeding even my normal printing delay - So, after thirty six years, Rae finally got her set of prints
LESLEY
The distortion is due to the photograph being made through two mirrors, the closest one to the camera being a bronze backed mirror with unflat glass
While reality appeared curved, which was quite frequent during that time, Lesley's body absorbs the distortion to become the point of reference on a shifting ground.The suggestion the distortion is because I was using Swiss Alpa cameras at the time is erroneous
SUE
Sue - The beginning - June 1970 - This was the first photograph of a naked woman that worked for me
Looking at the negatives again after 37 years I see other avenues of thought leading out. Much lighter avenues. However, I had just seen the Bill Brandt exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London. I still have the catalogue