The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless its great success was to distanc

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A fresh, fascinating appraisal that is the first study of the nude in photography as seen through the social customs, manners and taboos that shaped the art. 20

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Surveys the history of the nude in American art, photography, and popular culture.