Contemporary artists used nude photography as sketches for their paintings and drawings Measurement on the photograph itself helped the painter to reproduce them on a larger canvas Anonymous daguerreotypes showed naked or lightly clothed women, who would eventually be the subject of a painting The photographs obtained at that time were carefully kept away from inquisitive eyes, from fear of. Accepted in painting and sculpture as an idealized, often mythological form, it became scandalous when captured by the camera Photography was seen as too real, too direct—a mirror of truth in an era when art was expected to be an interpretation.
Introduced in the early 1800s, it gained popularity during the 1840s and 1850s, providing a medium to capture some of the earliest nude images in photographic history. These 19th century artists were pushing boundaries and often creating great art To use the nude body in ways never allowed before in history, and yet to accomplish this without seeming either prudish or pornographic, was something the greater of these artists were able to achieve.
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