Nudes
Gary Schneider

It’s fair to say that South African artist Gary Schneider has always been fascinated with the human body. Early memories of his work bring forth images of a 55-panel installation titled Genetic Self-Portrait which used photo microscopy to take images of his organs. His latest book Nude may not be quite so bizarre, but it does represent a body of work he began in 1989 featuring long exposure photographs utilizing a small flashlight as his only source of illumination.

Schneider explains, “Just as a movie unfolds in real time, so I build the image by exposing one part of the person after another with my tiny light.” Each image in Nudes takes about an hour to expose onto film. The result is an eerie and splotchy image, one that makes his subjects look as if they are left abandoned on an examining table. It is a unique and incredibly thought provoking study of the human body that is rarely seen and a must buy for anyone serious about the study of nude photography.


Hardcover: 80 pages
Publisher: Aperture
Language: English
ISBN: 1931788626