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Thursday, October 10, 2024
Dianora Niccolini
Diadora Niccolini was born in Italy in 1936, but eventually moved to the USA.
She caused quite a stir in 1975 when she did the first known major gallery show
comprised entirely of male nudes. Today we will take a look at ten of her works.
I'd never heard of her before, so this selection of her work was really interesting! Thanks for posting it, Jerry!
I'm surprised that it took until 1975 to have a major gallery show devoted to male nude photography, given how nudity in all areas of the arts had sort of "exploded" during the preceding decade.
(And even more so, since male nude photography supposedly aimed at and even *created* by women was "mainstreamed" over the previous two years with the immediate success of PLAYGIRL-- which by 1975 had been sharing newsstands with knockoffs like VIVA, FOXYLADY and ULTRA.)
I was also surprised that this hadn't happened sooner, but I guess the key element was that the show was entirely male nudes. Apparently some had shown up sporadicaly before, but not as a complete show.
I'd never heard of her before, so this selection of her work was really interesting! Thanks for posting it, Jerry!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that it took until 1975 to have a major gallery show devoted to male nude photography, given how nudity in all areas of the arts had sort of "exploded" during the preceding decade.
(And even more so, since male nude photography supposedly aimed at and even *created* by women was "mainstreamed" over the previous two years with the immediate success of PLAYGIRL-- which by 1975 had been sharing newsstands with knockoffs like VIVA, FOXYLADY and ULTRA.)
-- hsc
I was also surprised that this hadn't happened sooner, but I guess the key element was that the show was entirely male nudes. Apparently some had shown up sporadicaly before, but not as a complete show.
DeleteI love her work, there is a perfection to it that is actually rather simple but turns it into a fine art piece.
ReplyDeleteShe's hardly known outside of photo art circles.
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