Here a sampling of Pluschow’s work is followed by von Gloeden’s.
Guglielmo Plüschow (born Wilhelm Plüschow; August 18, 1852 – January 3, 1930), was a German photographer who moved to Italy and became known for his nude photos of local youths, predominantly males (but also females). Being the cousin of Wilhelm von Gloeden, who, despite taking up nude photography later than Plüschow, soon overshadowed him, Plüschow was several times at odds with the law and charged with corruption of minors. Today, his photography is recognized for its artistic merits, even though it is generally considered somewhat inferior to von Gloeden’s on account of his less graceful handling of lighting and the sometimes strangely stilted poses of his models.
Pluschow
Not much is known about Plüschow’s early life, except that he was born in Wismar as the eldest of seven brothers and sisters.
Pluschow
In the early 1870s, he moved to Rome and changed his first name from “Wilhelm” to its Italian equivalent “Guglielmo”. Initially making a living as a wine merchant, he soon turned to male and female nude photography.
Herbert Ritts (August 13, 1952 – December 26, 2002) was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits in the style of classical Greek sculpture. Consequently some of his more famous pieces are of male and female nudes in what can be called glamour photography.
From the early days of ancient Rome and Greece, on through Michelangelo’s day, most of us appreciate the human form. Beginning in the late 19th century and on through the 20th, we we celebrated the human form with a camera.
Born October 1977, Ryan McGinley lives in New York City. He began taking photographs in 1998. In 2003, at the age of 24, McGinley was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also named Photographer of the Year in 2003 by American Photo Magazine.
McGinley captures the spirit of youth and couples that with a rare and often vilified personal freedom–getting naked. Young men and women, guys and girls not quite over the the age threshold that locks them in the real world, who not only know how to enjoy their youth, but their own skin. Without shame or inhibition, McGinley takes the older observers back to their own youthful days and makes them dream about how much more carefree we could have been had we not been relentlessly indoctrinated about the shamefulness of the human body.
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