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Adult Photography, Erotic Photography, and/ or Glamour Photography has been around since the late 18th century.
Photographers who photograph Nudity, Adult or Erotic photo's are looke down on by the mainstream. However, it's how you word it, because Glamour Photographers take the same kind of photo's yet call themselves glamour photographers.
Nude pictures prior to 1835 generally consisted of paintings and drawings. That year, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the first practical process of photography. Unlike earlier photographs, his daguerreotypes had stunning quality and did not fade with time. The new technology did not go unnoticed by artists eager for new ways to depict the undraped feminine form. In Nude photography, 1840–1920, Peter Marshall notes: "In the prevailing moral climate at the time of the invention of photography, the only officially sanctioned photography of the body was for the production of artist's studies. Many of the surviving examples of daguerreotypes are clearly not in this genre but have a sensuality that clearly implies they were designed as erotic or pornographic images"
Playboy
Recently several popular glamour magazines known as lad mags are reversing the trend by emphasizing glamour while showing less nudity, in favor of implied (covered) nudity or toplessness such as the handbra technique. Examples include Maxim, which launched in 1995 and FHM (For Him Magazine) in 1994.
was instrumental in changing the world of glamour photography as the first magazine that focused on nude models and was targeted at the mainstream consumer. In December 1953, Hugh Hefner published the first edition of Playboy with Marilyn Monroe on the cover and nude photos of Monroe on the inside. Marilyn's star status and charming personality helped to diminish the public outcry. When asked what she had on during the photoshoot, she replied "the radio." After Playboy broke through, many magazines followed and this was instrumental in opening the market for the introduction of glamour photography into modern society. Today, softcore nude photographs of models appear in publications such as badbook.com or tabloid newspapers such as Britain's The Sun's Page 3. |
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