Nudes by St. Ansel?

[Bill_1856]

Did he take any?

[BrianShaw]

I've never seen one.

[Jim Galli]

I've never seen one.

Thankfully. He made stones look like people...and people look like stones.

[David Lindquist]

U.S. Camera Annual for 1955 has a section of nine photographs by Ansel Adams, all done with Polaroid film. The first plate "Figure and Dark Stone" is arguably a nude. On the other hand she has her breasts mostly draped with, well, a drape. So you "can't really see anything" as the expression goes. This is closest and only example of a nude by Ansel Adams that I am aware of.
David

[BrianShaw]

U.S. Camera Annual for 1955 ... she has her breasts mostly draped with, well, a drape. So you "can't really see anything" as the expression goes.

Oh, how quaint life must have been way back in 1955

Is there any way that you can post a scan, David? I'd love to see it... even though you "can't really see anything"!

[neil poulsen]

Hi comments in his autobiography or one of his books that he really didn't care for taking photos of nudes.

[BrianShaw]

Yes... I read that also, but who amongst us hasn't taken at least one... whether we like that genre or not?

[Mark Sawyer]

Yes... I read that also, but who amongst us hasn't taken at least one... whether we like that genre or not?

me...

[BrianShaw]

me...

Okay... I'll amend my way of thinking!

[Lazybones]

Nice thinking, BrainShaw.