01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 12

Sante D’Orazio

Patricia Velasquez, c. 2004

Photography

47 1/2 × 57 1/2 in; 120.7 × 146.1 cm
Private collection

Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún (born 31 January 1971) is a Venezuelan actress and model.

In 1989, she participated in the Miss Venezuela 1989, where she placed as 2nd runner-up. After 3 years of Engineering college studies, Velásquez left for Milan, Italy, in pursuit of a modelling career.

From 1995 to 2000 she studied acting in Los Angeles and New York. She paced down runways in ready-to-wear fashions. This led to a large number of further modeling engagements, which ultimately culminated in her being ranked No. 45 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001 and No. 16 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" poll in 2002.

Velasquez was appointed UNESCO Artist for Peace (Good will Ambassador) in June 2003, in the context of the International Decade for the World’s Indigenous People. She received the “Women Together” award at the United Nations on 2009. In 2015, LA Femme Film festival gave Velasquez their Humanitarian Award. On August 30th 2018 the Organization of American States (OAS) appointed Velasquez as Goodwill Ambassador for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. More on Patricia Velásquez

Sante D'Orazio is an American photographer.

Sante D’Orazio typified an era. From the moment Andy Warhol gave the Brooklyn-born photographer his first job, D’Orazio became somewhat of a poster-child for the hedonistic fashion world of the late 1980s and early 1990s. D’Orazio was part of a generation of photographers whose highly stylised, hyper-sensual imagery captured the pulse of their bullish time. 

In the early 1990s, when photographers like Corinne Day ushered in the grunge era in magazines and advertising campaigns, Sante D’Orazio found demand for his glossy work in Hollywood, where he shot the likes of Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer and Keith Richards. “My pictures were more sensual and glamorous and the whole grunge movement and all that was just not my cup of tea. That is what dissuaded me from continuing to work in the fashion field because I just didn’t see women that way.” More on Sante D'Orazio

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04 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Martha Graham, with footnotes # 10

Imogen Cunningham

Martha Graham, c. 1931

Gelatin silver print

7-1/2 - 5-5/8

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“I wanted to begin not with characters or ideas, but with movements . . .I wanted significant movement. I did not want it to be beautiful or fluid. I wanted it to be fraught with inner meaning, with excitement and surge.”


–Martha Graham

Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.


She danced and taught for over seventy years. Graham was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the US: the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, in the 1994 documentary The Dancer Revealed, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable." More on Martha Graham

Imogen Cunningham

Gelatin silver print

7-1/2 - 5-5/8

Private collection

Imogen Cunningham (April 12, 1883 – June 23, 1976) was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects.

It was not until 1906, while studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, that she was inspired to take up photography again by an encounter with the work of Gertrude Käsebier. With the help of her chemistry professor, Horace Byers, she began to study the chemistry behind photography and she subsidized her tuition by photographing plants for the botany department.

Imogen Cunningham

Martha Graham #35 ,1931

7-1/2 - 5-5/8

Private collection

In 1907 Cunningham went to work for Edward S. Curtis in his Seattle studio, gaining knowledge about the portrait business and practical photography. She worked on his project of documenting American Indian tribes for the book The North American Indian

In 1909, Cunningham was awarded the Pi Beta Phi Graduate Fellowship. Using this fellowship, Cunningham traveled to Germany to study with Professor Robert Luther at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Germany. In May 1910, she finished her paper describing her process to increase printing speed, improve clarity of highlights tones, and produce sepia tones.

In Seattle, Cunningham opened a studio and won acclaim for portraiture and pictorial work. She became a sought-after photographer and exhibited at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1913. In 1914, Cunningham's portraits were shown at An International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography in New York. Wilson's Photographic Magazine published a portfolio of her work.

In the 1940s, Cunningham turned to documentary street photography. In 1945, Cunningham was invited by Ansel Adams to accept a position as a faculty member for the art photography department at the California School of Fine Arts. 

Cunningham continued to take photographs until shortly before her death at age 93, on June 23, 1976, in San Francisco, California. 

Cunningham was named Imogen after the heroine of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. More on Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham

Martha Graham

7-1/2 - 5-5/8

Private collection

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03 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart, with footnotes #5

Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart, (1883 - 1960)

Blue Drape 1919 

Pastel on paper 

53.5 x 36cm

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Her pastels are a curious mix of coy, girlish innocence and saccharine sensuality. In many of her pastels, Cumbrae Stewart has taken on the stereotype of the passive female nude and has attempted to rework it within her own sensibility… Virtually her entire oeuvre is devoted to the nude, and she was aware that her dainty, wanton pastels may have breached public taste, not only in subject but because their creator was a woman. She altered her hyphenated name, and exhibited and signed her name Cumbrae-Stewart, as countless women artists have done to 'protect' their sex from a judgemental public. More on this painting

Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart, (1883 - 1960)

By the Lakeside

Pastel

53.9 x 36.8 cm

Private collection

Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart (23 December 1883 – 8 September 1960) was an Australian painter. She spent the 1920s and 1930s painting in Britain, France and Italy. She was a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.

Cumbrae-Stewart was born in Melbourne, Australia on 23 December 1883. From 1901 though 1907 Cumbrae-Stewart studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School, where she was taught by Lindsay Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin. From 1909 through 1919 she exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society. In 1922 she left Australia and spent the next decades painting and exhibiting in Europe.

Cumbrae-Stewart died 8 September 1960 in Melbourne. More on Cumbrae-Stewart

Janet Cumbrae Stewart

Self-portrait, c. 1911

National Library of Australia

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02 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Raquel Welch, with footnotes # 11

Helmut Newton (Australian/German, 1920–2004) Title:

Big Nude XV: Raquel Hands on Forehead, Nice, c. 1993

Gelatin silver print

47 x 37.2 cm. (18.5 x 14.6 in.)

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Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada; September 5, 1940) is an American actress and singer.

She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to a British studio, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). She had only three lines in the film, yet images of her in the doe-skin bikini which she wore became best-selling posters that turned her into a celebrity sex symbol. She later starred in notable films including Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969) and Myra Breckinridge (1970). She made several television variety specials.


Welch's unique persona on film made her into an icon of the 1960s and 1970s. She carved out a place in movie history portraying strong female characters and breaking the mold of the submissive sex symbol. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974 for her performance in The Three Musketeers. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Television Film for her performance in the film Right to Die (1987). In 1995, Welch was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History". Playboy ranked Welch No. 3 on their "100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century" list. In 2011, Men's Health ranked her No. 2 in its "Hottest Women of All Time" list. More on Raquel Welch

Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications." More on Helmut Newton

Sante D'Orazio, American, b. 1956

Tahnee Welch, Amagansett, N.Y., c. 1993

Vintage gelatin silver print

10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm)

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Latanne Rene Welch (born December 26, 1961), known as Tahnee Welch. She was born in San Diego, California, the daughter of actress Raquel Welch and her first husband, James Welch. She appeared in a 1967 photo with her mother in Ladies' Home Journal.

Her film career began in Italy starring opposite Virna Lisi. Returning to the U.S. she starred in Ron Howard's Cocoon and its sequel, Cocoon: The Return, in which she portrayed a beautiful alien. Returning to Europe she continued working mostly in Italian and German film and television productions. She has also appeared in American independent pictures I Shot Andy Warhol, Sue, and Search and Destroy. She also portrayed the role of Catherine Powell in the 1996 video game Ripper.

Welch posed for a nude pictorial in the November 1995 edition of Playboy as well as posing in a handbra on its cover. Welch appeared in American Vogue, Italian Vogue, British GQ, Interview, French Marie Claire, Italian Moda, and German Bunte magazines. More on Tahnee Welch

Sante D'Orazio (American, b. January 23, 1956) is a Modern photographer who was born in Brooklyn, NY. His interest in art began while studying fine arts at Brooklyn College. He also studied photography with Lou Bernstein (American, 1911–2005), a member of The New York Photo League, and worked under Philip Pearlstein (American, b.1924), an American Contemporary painter, from 1979 to 1980. 

D'orazio began his career working for Italian Vogue in 1981, and was eventually noticed by Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. This led to a surplus of work involving renowned fashion magazines and business-related clients. His work revolves around a world of alluring celebrities in various stages of undres. 

His pictures have been published in books and put on display in both the United States and Europe. Though D'orazio was raised as a Catholic, his photographs typically showcase nude actresses and supermodels, and their overall tone explores sensuality and fame in present-day society. More on Sante D'Orazio

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