Nudist Photos of the Day 12/04/10

Naked People - Your Version

A new project by Sebastian Kempa, Naked People- Your Version, invites anybody to upload photos of themselves, both clothed and unclothed, as part of his ongoing Naked People Project. Kempa explains his philosophy:

Clothes are our second layer of skin. They disguise, reveal, mirror our innermost being or help to hide it. By wearing certain clothes we can for example give an indication of our profession, our social status or our emotional mood. A business suit makes us guess that the person behind it is a banker, office worker, insurance agent and so on. In our society it is a sign of trustworthiness. But to which degree is this assumption correct? Can we really trust this cover without reservation? What is really behind it? Can the illusion be destroyed when all of a sudden a tattoo appears under the suit or does the person remain to be unfathomable? Here you have the opportunity to perceive the different effect between a person dressed in their characteristic clothes and in the nude.

I invite nudists and naturists everywhere to participate in Kempa's art project to help further break down the barrier of clothing which society has imposed to imprison our natural bodies.

Greg Friedler Photography

Practicing Nudist, 67 Years Old

There's a lot of honesty in Greg Friedler's nudes. Using the classic clothed vs. unclothed format, he strips down cab drivers, accountants, actors, teachers, showgirls, shop girls and people from all walks of life, allowing us to see the bodies that society forces us to cover up and hide from human eyes.

Stripped: Greg Friedler's Naked Las Vegas airs on Showtime this March, and the trailer can be found here.

Clothed/Unclothed

People are endlessly fascinated with nudity since we, as a society, wear clothes in virtually all social situations. It's always interesting to compare side by side how people really look in their clothes versus how they appear completely nude.

Here are a couple of sites which explore the clothed/unclothed comparisons:

Naked People

Mise a Nu

Laura Aguilar Clothed Unclothed Series. Her paper on the project is here.

The World Wide Beauty and Akira Gomi's Works