Nude Visions Exhibition at the Muncher Stadtmuseum

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When I visited Munich about a week ago, I was lucky enough to come across this amazing exhibition spanning 150 years of nude photography at the Muncher Stadtmuseum. It chronicles the development of the human body as a photographic image throughout the history of the medium, starting off with daguerrotype and the like and working its way up to modern nudes. I was really excited to see a photo of Charis Wilson by Edward Weston, and there was an interesting video documenting different world cultures' approach to the body as a performative tool.

Edward Weston

The exhibition also included the famous nude shots of Marilyn Monroe, and artists included ranged from Auguste Belloc and Alfred Stieglitz to Juergen Teller and Gerard Vormwald. Nazi propaganda images of Olympic athletes were also an interesting feature of the show, and a breathtaking image of an elderly woman's wrinkled belly was among the highlights of the show.

Gerhard Riebicke



Bert Stern

Jan Saudek