the nude before and after

by violet blue on October 19, 2007

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Seeing images of clothes-on, clothes off in identical poses is one of my fascinations; I think it’s relatively easy (okay, easier) to do with today’s tech. I’ve previously blogged a retro version here and a modern version in full here. But imagine my surprise when I got (1920s, San Francisco based) photographer Albert Arthur Allen’s book Premiere Nudes for my birthday, and saw image after image of exactly this — from the 1930s. The book is gorgeous glorious and unerringly sexy — I love it. (Another sexy snap is here.) And they’re San Francisco girls! I’ve been keeping it in my bedroom on a table next to my closet doors for inspiration when I get (un)dressed.

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