Naked and the Veiled, The - The Photographic Nudes of Erwin Blumenfeld
by: Blumenfeld, Erwin

Hardcover. NY, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 plates in color and duotone. 144 pages. A posthumous retrospective of his pioneering and experimentally dazzling female nudes (with a few male nudes thrown in for good measure, including a full-frontal self-portrait of the photographer). Features never-before-published photographs as well as celebrated images such as "Nude Under Wet Silk". One of the greatest fashion and lifestyle photographers of our time, Blumenfeld is also recognized as one of the most innately and profoundly erotic portrayers of the nude.