What is Nude photography?
[[File:California Art Nude Photography Workshops - Promo 1.webm|thumb|Nude Woman in California]] '''Nude photography''' is a [[style]] of [[photography]] which shows the [[nakedness|nude]] [[human]] body as a form of [[art]]. This is different from [[erotic photography]], and [[pornography]] which focus on [[sexual arousal]]. [[File:Nu féminin allongé Amélie.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''Recumbent female nude, Amélie'' is a nude photograph by Félix-Jacques Moulin, done in the early 1850s]] For many photographers, nude photography is a [[Research|study]] of the human body, much like some [[painting]]s did.<ref>{{cite book| last = Lewinski| first = Jorge| title = The naked and the nude: a history of the nude in photographs, 1839 to the present| year = 1987| publisher = Harmony| isbn = 978-0-517-56683-1 }}</ref> Photographing a named [[person]] is called [[portrait|portraiture]].<ref>There are portraits for which the name of the sitter is not known. They are still called portraits, because the artist's clear intention was to paint or photograph a particular individual person.</ref> Nude photography focuses on showing the human body, and often the face is not visible. In general, nude photography is a ''planned image'', not a snapshot. Nude photography wants to show a stylised depiction of the human body. Photographers sometimes use extremes of light and shadow, [[oil]]ed skin, and shadows falling across the body to show the texture and structure of the body. Nude Men are also used in photography, they are just less common.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Weiermair, Peter |author2=Nielander, Claus |name-list-style=amp |title=Hidden Image: Photographs of the Male Nude in the 19th and 20th Centuries|year=1988 |publisher=MIT Press, 1988|isbn=0-262-23137-9}}</ref> Early photographers often showed the nudity of women like the one we see here by [[Félix-Jacques Moulin]]. Many, like [[Edward Weston]], [[Jean-Christophe Destailleur]], [[ Augustao de Luca]], [[Ruth Bernhard]] and [[Jerry Avenaim]], preferred to show the lines of a b