thoughts on older models posing nude?

[stradibarrius]

Ed, I am full agreement with you...I am just saying that I think there is still a lot of beauty to capture in older women. I do think that as we get older as men older women become more attractive...

[invisibleflash]

I like older nudes. Don't see that many, they are different.

[cgrab]

Although Mona Kuhn's pictures are mostly of people in her own age group, there is also this: http://www.pixelcreation.fr/nc/galer...t_4_mona_kuhn/

[life_in_sepia]

^^^ the Mona Kuhn shot is a great example. I find it interesting that she labeled it as a portrait. I also would say this image falls more into the portrait genre than into the nude one. I think portraits say more about the person's character and nudes say more about abstract concepts of beauty. I have posted images in the "nude" thread that weren't nudes per se, but rather fall into my own conception of what is a nude picture. I think the Kuhn image is the inverse for portrait/nude.

[Michael Graves]

...the vast number of people who read Playboy "for the articles."...

Playboy has articles?

Personally I agree with the poster who said that far too many "fine art nudes" are grotesquely posed and artificial attempts to present T&A in a different approach. Nudes of older men and women, tastefully handled, should be as palatable as nudes of those in their prime. Good ones will probably be just as rare.

[Vaughn]

Good point, Michael. Most nude images of older models in a sort of a "recapturing one's youth' sort of pose (such as the classical pin-up poses) strike me as a bit vain and strained.

[Leonard Metcalf]

My main model is a sixty plus male... Works every time.. Just go for it...