University of Sydney’s Nicholson Museum Presents Classical Nudes Exposed in Photography

SYDNEY.- One hundred nude images inspired by the Classical past on display at the University of Sydney‘s Nicholson Museum during January’s Sydney Festival (from January 4 to April 17 2011). Exposed: Photography and the Classical Nude is a celebration of the naked human body in photography – and of the influence of the Classical ideal of ancient Greece and Rome on that art form. From the 1840s to the present day, many of the great names of photography are represented including: Henry Fox Talbot, Eadweard Muybridge, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Leni Riefenstahl, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chim, Brassai, Robert Doisneau, Herbert List, Max Dupain and Lewis Morley. Seventy five percent of the exhibition has travelled from the United States, drawn from the extensive collection of Florida lawyer William K Zewadski and from his subsequent donations to

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