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Nude Visions - 150 Years Body Images in Photography
The exhibition "Nude Visions" is an introduction to the collection of photographs in the Münchner Stadtmuseum, showing a representative selection of images of the human body. The show starts with so-called "academies", plates used as models by artists like Delacroix and Courbet. Yet, at the same time photographers already made pictures of the nude that had artistic ambitions. Beginning in the 1870s, nude models were placed outside of the studio in the open air, typically in the Mediterranean country-side of Italy or North Africa. Using photography as tool, the late 19th-century "Lebens reform-Bewegung" (Life Reform Movement) in Germany celebrated the naked body's naturalness. Around 1900, pictorialist photographers aimed at elevatin...