Hairy Nudists at the Beach

I'm going for a thematic trifecta today with five hairy nudists at the beach.

 

A bear at the beach!  That might make some of you happy.

 

Our Bum Brigade offering seems tentative about going into the water.

 

 

I found this photo in a French nudist magazine.

 

The Artistic French, Part 1 - More drawing by Cocteau

Doing another French double feature today, starting with some drawings by Jean Cocteau.

This one is called Homme Nu Debout, or Naked Man Standing.

 

I'd love to know the story behind this Cocteau drawing 

of a group of nude and seminude men.

 

This is a Cocteau illustration for Jean Genet's Querelle de Brest from 1947.

 

I included this Cocteau work not because of any overt eroticism,

but because it portrays masculinity on an almost cellular level.

 

I have no title for this Cocteau drawing.

 

This drawing which Cocteau called "The Lovers" looks unfinished,

and it has an odd scribble at upper right.  It's quite good regardless.

 

The Artistic French, Part 2 - Photographers contemporary to Cocteau

For part two of our French double feature, we'll take a look at some 

contemporaries of Cocteau who were photographers of male nudes.

We start with the first of two photos by Fernand Dengremont.

 

This derriere shot is by a female French photographer, Laure Albin-Guillot.

She was most active in the 1940's and did far more female nudes than male.

 

I wish I knew the photographer's name for this photo that came labeled only "French."

The hair style makes me think 1940's, but I could be wrong.  I've been wrong before.

 

Here's another 1940's photo by Fernand Dengremont.  Although he wasn't a 

physique photographer, he sure knew how to photograph men's muscles.

 

I can't quite figure out the setting in this photo by Raymond Voinquel, 

a contemporary of Cocteau who also photographed Cocteau's lover.The rocks

and trees are easy, but what's that rectangular thing above the model's shoulder?

 

Hippies Demonstrating in the Nude

I've had several requests lately for more hippie material, specifically music festivals in one case.  I'm still working on that, but in the meantime, here are some naked hippies at political and social demonstrations.  This scene is from a demonstration outside Milan in the early 70's.

 

And now a few words from the Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want:

                                               

                                              And I went down to the demonstration
                                              To get my fair share of abuse
                                              Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration
                                              If we don't we're gonna blow a fifty-amp fuse"

 

The London Policed seem to be taking this guy away from the demonstration.

Must have done something naughty.  Oh, wait.  He's naked, so that's all it took.

 

I don't know what these fellows were demonstrating for or against,

but I wish I could have been there.

 

This time it's the American police hauling some off to the paddy wagon.