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The underwater ‘muses’ photo series by Christy Lee Rogers is reminiscent of  French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin . The Hawaiian visual artist produces her colourful, luminous works by submerging her models interlaced bodies, draped in vibrant fabrics, into water and capturing the refraction of light which gives the photographs a painterly effect. Christy Lee Rogers poolside in between shots. Nicolas Poussin: A Dance for the Music of Time  (c.1634 - 1636

Ian and Erick Regnard are two Australian brothers who have created a stunning series of underwater nudes. What makes the images even more remarkable is that they shot the series on large format 4x5 Polaroid film.  In 2010  one of their underwater Polaroid nudes won them International Photographer of the year in the "Special Category".  I think it was well deserved.  I especially love the images of the dancing stingrays with nude model - Simply stunning! Limited edition prints are available here . ©  Ian Erick Regnard ©  Ian Erick Regnard ©  Ian Erick Regnard ©  Ian Erick Regnard ©  Ian Erick Regnard ©  Ian Erick Regnard ~ The award winning image. ©  Ian Erick Regnard ©  Ian Erick Regnard

In 1995 photographer Guido Argentini was moved to coat a models in silver makeup. The shiny silver paint transformed the models: dancers, gymnasts and aerialists into metallic statues. " Evoking the luminous polished planes of the work of Brancusi and the verve of Degas’ ballet sketches, these photographs endow the human body with both the solidity of sculpture and the vivid energy of dance. Using geometrical props Guido Argentini created a contrast between the human body and the archetypal forms of geometry: triangles, circles and squares. The final result of many years of work is this book: Argentum A collection of more than 100 stunning photographs."  Argentum is a book but is also a movie, a documentary that reveals the concepts that are behind the making of this book: Argentini’s esthetic of the human form and the skills of the athletes that posed for these photographs. “ARGENTUM” THE BOOK Available in Europe July 2013 Available in USA September 2013 ARGENTUM - The Of...

In Voluptas Mors ( “Voluptuous Death”), a surrealistic portrait of Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, made in collaboration with photographer Philippe Halsman (1951). The image depicts Dalí posing beside a giant skull, a tableau vivant (or “living picture”) comprising seven nude female models. Halsman and Dali took three hours to arrange the models according to a sketch by Dalí. A version of In Voluptas Mors was used subtly in the poster for the film The Silence of The Lambs. 1951– Nude women posed by Dali forming a skull entitled “In Voluptas Mors” –photograph by Philippe Halsman (in collaboration with Salvador Dali)   “In Voluptas Mors” by Salvador Dali & Philippe Halsman, which you may recognize from the movie poster for “The Silence of the Lambs”–was  used to symbolize the seven victims in Jonathan Demme’s classic film…   Silence of the Lambs poster close up of In Voluptas Mors What at first may appear to be merely an example of  memento mori  (...