New Figure magazine

[Robert Brummitt]

Has anyone seen or looked at this magazine, "Carrie Leigh's Nude"? Its in its fourth issue. This is the first time I seen it. I went to the website and it's a strictly black and white magazine from what I can see. It's issues have Leonard Nimoy and Lucien Clergue photography and this issue and the last one has interviews with Kim Weston.
The price is $9.95 but before I plunk down the money I wanted to see if anyone else had bought it or seen it. It's packaged in plastic so I can't bourse before buying.
Give me your thoughts, Please. It reminds me of another magazine long ago published and edited by photographer Jeff Dunas. That magazine introduced me to Brett Weston's underwater images.

[D. Bryant]

Has anyone seen or looked at this magazine, "Carrie Leigh's Nude"? Its in its fourth issue. This is the first time I seen it. I went to the website and it's a strictly black and white magazine from what I can see. It's issues have Leonard Nimoy and Lucien Clergue photography and this issue and the last one has interviews with Kim Weston.
The price is $9.95 but before I plunk down the money I wanted to see if anyone else had bought it or seen it. It's packaged in plastic so I can't bourse before buying.
Give me your thoughts, Please. It reminds me of another magazine long ago published and edited by photographer Jeff Dunas. That magazine introduced me to Brett Weston's underwater images.

Judging from the covers on the web site it looks like soft porn / glamor nudes.

Don Bryant

[Jim Noel]

I wouild not classify the images as soft porn, or any other kind of porn. The issues I have seeb have contained very well lit and photographed female bodies but they are certainly not erotic, or sexually stimulating, or porn of any kind.

[Mark Sawyer]

If you go to the site, you can flip through a few pages of the magazine, including the table of contents and a few pictures, most of which were pretty cheesy. Every issue of "Carrie Leigh's Nude" has a cover shot by Carrie Leigh, an interview by Carrie Leigh, an article on Carrie Leigh, and a photo layout by Carrie Leigh. Pretty much a vanity publication.

[Robert Brummitt]

If you go to the site, you can flip through a few pages of the magazine, including the table of contents and a few pictures, most of which were pretty cheesy. Every issue of "Carrie Leigh's Nude" has a cover shot by Carrie Leigh, an interview by Carrie Leigh, an article on Carrie Leigh, and a photo layout by Carrie Leigh. Pretty much a vanity publication.

Ok here is me sounding really old and just stepped out from a cave.
Who is Carrie Leigh and why?

[David A. Goldfarb]

I thought the name was a pun on one of the pioneers of photographic chemistry (am I a geek or what?), but that seems to be her name. It turns out she's an ex-model, former _Playboy_ playmate, turned photographer.

[Duane Polcou]

I've seen all four issues. They feature fine art nude photography. In this day and age, "fine art nude photography" seems to mean black and white or toned imagery versus color, and content intended to be metaphorical, or at least to emphasize form and shape rather than sexuality. As in, "this sepia toned picture of a woman lying in the lotus position on a giant paper mache scrotum represents North Korea's inhumanity to plankton" . Stuff like that.

I just think "fine art nude photography" is a smokescreen for photographers to get attractive women (and men) naked and pretend as though they have a loftier agenda other than taking nudie shots.

"Ohhhh noooo. I don't do cheesecake. How dare you, sir. I do art. I'm an artist. Because my models don't wear makeup and I posed them in front of a fern and I used a wooden camera and they're printed in sepia. Are you blind?"

At least Helmut Newton had the cajuengas to admit he was a perv.

Are pictures still art if someone whacks off to them? If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, will Michael Fatali be blamed?

Take Jock Sturges. 13 year old girls with pouty lips posing naked. Ahem. Ohh noo, that's art. Because he used a view camera and it's in Black and White and EVERYONE was naked because that's how they live and no one EVER thinks of sex even when they're all naked with pouty lips and even their dogs are naked with pouty lips so get your mind out of the gutter!!

And you wonder why Christie Brinkley's ex husband has a porn addiction. He should have gotten a view camera, and viewed the porn on his computer screen through the ground glass. Then, you know, he's an artist.

[z_photo]

i suspect you fully supported the covering of statues of nudes in order to save our delicate eyes from the horror that is the human body?
afterall, they are from the government, and they are (hopefully soon 'were') here to protect us!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...29/statues.htm

[Per Madsen]

i suspect you fully supported the covering of statues of nudes in order to save our delicate eyes from the horror that is the human body?
afterall, they are from the government, and they are (hopefully soon 'were') here to protect us!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...29/statues.htm

I thought that Queen Victoria was dead !

[Marko]

I thought that Queen Victoria was dead !

Funny how most puritans are either ugly, fat or dried-out women or men married to them!