PAST EXHIBITION

In Focus: The Nude

October 9, 2007—February 24, 2008

Like landscape or still life, the nude is one of the great traditional forms in art. An ideal perfected in sculpture by the ancient Greeks, it became the cornerstone of formal artistic training in Europe during the 17th century. The nude became a subject of photography shortly after the invention of the medium was announced simultaneously in Paris and London in 1839. Since then photographers have used a wide variety of materials to render the nude and, in the process, created new imagery.

Visit Museum