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Albert Arthur Allen – Premiere Nudes
Publisher: Twin Palms, 2001
Hardcover, 256 pages, English
Size: 25.4×25.4cm
New in seal

Presents the studio work of photographer Albert Arthur Allen, whose career, from 1916 to 1930, focused on female nudes. Daile Kaplan’s introduction discusses Allen’s legal difficulties with obscenity laws and bankruptcy, his concept of himself as an artist, and his pseudo-scientific “physical and character analysis” of his models. The main part of the volume is devoted to full-page reproductions of Allen’s photographs.

“There is, of course, a fine distinction between the non-essential nude and the true nude. The non-essential nude is a picture which has no message to speak. While the true nude gives a version of beauty, both physical and spiritual—two great needs of humanity.” — Albert Arthur Allen