Tedn'Alice@notellin.com wrote in news:6aa8031m3q2ni3sphdeanf4jlsrtm6ba90@
4ax.com:
> I think it is our common misconception that the Victorian Age was
> defined by extreme sexual inhibition in an atmosphere of moral
> tryanny, for so many photographers at the turn of the 19th century
> regularly photographed nudes, both for science and art. Photography
> was still a new and exciting form of art, when the rendition of the
> human form was seen as a thing of beauty rather than an abomination.
> It was the period of Pluschow and Von Gloeden, Sutcliffe ... so many.
>
> World War I changed that idyllic time forever, at least in Western
> Europe and the United States. The airbrush replaced the Pope's
> figleaf and nudes were "sanitized" for popular consumption.
>
> I'm not sure why. Does anyone?
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> "That which is not just is not law"
>
Except that Oliver Hill worked in the 30's
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