Alexia has to be one of the most beautiful models that I have seen to date. She's very natural, and that is a clear statement about who she is. She isn't afraid to challenge many things in her galleries and to make more than one statement using her body.
Choosing the images for this gallery was a nightmare, and I am afraid that I may not have done the best job. It's very hard selecting the right images when every single image is beautiful and the model is as alluring as Alexia. I just hope that I haven't destroyed her delicate and amazing beauty in the process and that you'll still be able to appreciate it.
There's a backyard feeling to this gallery, something that's recurrent in most of Grace and Beauty galleries. There's a great variety of personalities, models, and beliefs in the United States, and I think that he captures the best of those according to his own nostalgic and simple style. It's generally a hard job choosing a single gallery, and even a bunch of images from there, a lot of galleries are amazing and a lot of models are truly beautiful.
I hope that you'll enjoy this gallery from the United States.
Photography has evolved in the past 10 years in remarkable ways. The introduction of digital photography and the fact that dark rooms became nothing more than computer software, where tricks don't have anything to do with nasty chemicals, has made it easier for photographers to be more creative and to focus more on making good pictures instead of making sure that good pictures turn out well on paper.
This gallery represents that transition or evolution. The first gallery was shot in 2000 using a film camera, with a wonderful model, Patti Smith - which explains the grain, while the second gallery, shot in 2010 in Hawaii using a digital camera with the amazing model Pua Chapman, is a representation of the modern approach to beauty. It was a day full of adventure for this young woman. Her poses are wonderful and she's indeed very graceful.
The two galleries have the same theme and two alluring models. I often complain when photographers use the same idea more than once, but here the results are remarkably different. The beauty of each model stands out perfectly in those wonderful natural settings.
It's also a wonderful chance to actually see how David Allio's vision has evolved over a decade.
I hope that you will like it.
Beauty is Divine (gODDESS) has undergone a grand transformation a few months ago that basically forced it into the bottom of my priority website. They transformed the website into what seemed to be pure pornography. It certainly felt like they sold out, and I am somewhat hesitant about them.
However, all that they have more than most other websites is videos and pictures with their models having sex in the same glamorous style. I don't think that there's anything wrong with sex, whether straight or not. However, it certainly was a surprise. The anger wasn't sex, which turned out to be passionate and loving between couples, the problem was that I felt that beauty was going to be displaced by tons of useless erotica.
I recently decided to pay them another while remaining neutral about their past. They still have some amazing sets and have a lot of beautiful models. While actual penetration was weird to see on a nudes website, I got used to it. It isn't degrading, it isn't spreading false stereotypes about women, so what's the problem? It can even be considered a form of respect for the model's sexuality. A step to make them look more human in front of the camera.
Anyway, I am just glad that they still have some old-fashioned gODDESS-style nudes.
I think that the most charming aspect of grace and beauty is how informal it is. It's almost like Jay Greenman gets some beautiful girls together, let them go about doing something, and then capture the resulting charming moments. Nothing about it looks staged at all, actual poses are very rare. It looks very simple, almost as simple as if he's an ordinary man taking some pictures of the amazing beauty of his girlfriend - in this case many liberated female friends.
This personal touch make the website very respectful and very close to home. The models' personalities sometimes make their way into a couple of the pictures. Some of them are rebellious - daring piercings, some believe in their natural beauty - like Alexia, one of my absolute favorite models from there, and others seem to be just there for no apparent reason. Sometimes it seems as if the models are indeed carrying on with their regular lives. It's an absolutely fantastic American vision.
It's not entertaining as much as it is revealing. It doesn't have that peeping tom attitude to it. It's almost as if observing those models did not affect their behavior in any way.
It's truly refreshing to see websites like this. I am certainly glad that I stumbled upon it.
Another installation from the USA tour that David did with his wife and alluring model Tatyana. This time from New Mexico.
It's amazing how he has managed to turn such a harsh environment into the perfect landscape upon which to draw and capture the amazing beauty of Tatyana. He manages to make Tatyanas blend in with the beauty of nature and to even complement it.
He shows the beauty of the U.S. and of some of the beautiful American models on his website David-Nudes. Check it out if you have some free time.
This is the second gallery from the wonderful American model Liz Ashley to appear on GN. Also from Morey Studio.
Morey's sharp style is very clear in this gallery. Liz looks alluring with minimal props and make-up. He has a great way of adding glamor into the world of erotica while creating artistic nudes in the process. It's a very unique mix. His works with Liz Ashley strongly remind me of Courbet's L'Origine du monde. It's not the visible pubic hair, but it's a striking simplicity and artistic vision, a reverence for the beauty of female genitalia.
I know that this is not the typical GN style of galleries. I do find that approach admirable, and that's why I think that featuring it is worthwhile.
Another new gallery from a website that I haven't visited in a while. In times like these, when trash is the norm, it pays to visit one of those hidden 'oases' looking for some beautiful nudes. I think that my quest has somewhat succeeded as I found a couple of galleries that I fell in love with at Grace And Beauty.
I think that there are a couple of things that make Grace And Beauty special; the fact that almost every model comes from the U.S. and a certain retro good-old-days sort of feeling that permeates some of the images. The photography is often simple, and the models are often just relaxing or having fun, there aren't a lot of professional poses with the exception of a few galleries, which include this one.
It somehow reminds me of Abby Winters, but I feel that it fits more into the simple nudes category. The entire website feels somewhat informal, almost as if it a diary of a photographer who shares his passion for photography, beauty, and the amazing personalities of his models with the world. It's almost strange that you have to pay, but with the fact that models charge for their time, it isn't a real surprise.
I initially found it a bit confusing moving around the website, but I got used to it after a while. They have an amusing sex-in-the-news section in there, along with some written erotica. They do have some freebies, but I am not that sure about how great the stories are. The images on the tour are indeed fantastic.
Anyway, I hope that you'll enjoy this gallery from there.
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This gallery perfectly illustrates what I meant in my last post from Morey Studio. Liz Ashley is a famous American model whose pictures can be found in a lot of places, including Playboy and Penthouse, but her pictures from those other places are remarkably different from those shown here. They're remarkable artificial and Liz looks much less charming than she looks here with Morey's striking simplicity.
First, there is no commodification and she clearly is not treated like an object. Her pubic hair and her genitalia are not props. When she's standing there with her legs slightly apart she's the one in control, she's the one showing her body, and she's the one who's not ashamed of her femininity or of herself. There's a great sense of empowerment in those "explicit" images that you can see in this gallery. This is not an exception, for the images are very artistic and the focus is not without a deep meaning. You can not see a part of her body without seeing her face and her expressions.
She looks very powerful and confident in every picture, and that's what makes this set that amazing and Morey's works that special. I hope that you will see the same forces that I saw when I chose those images.
This is another part of the American nudes series from David Nudes. Those seem to be more pictures from the Utah set featuring Tatyana, another part was posted here before.
The images are just as beautiful and the scenery as breathtaking. It's the second gallery with beautiful American nudes for today and another one is still on the way.
There are many special things about the artwork of Craig Morey. He's the photographer behind most of the images (trash?) at LSG, but he still manages to make most of those sets more presentable and actually quite artistic on his own website. I think that it's a story of how corporate mentality can damage perfect beauty.
I admit that his sets are quite explicit, but - I can't believe I am saying this - they're not vulgar. Yes, you can see the model's vulva, but there's nothing shameful about it. There's no unnecessary attention. Actually, there's some sort of a very personal feminine pride in those images, and I have to salute him and his models for it.
He apparently really likes simplicity, and I quite like his style myself. I think that most of his American sets look better than those shot in Prague or London. Most of his American models look like real girls who are very brave. I will be publishing another gallery of his with a different model soon and you will see what I mean.
American nudes can just be as good as those produced anywhere else. There's no shortage of photographers, talent, or equipment. I just don't really know what's wrong. Maybe it's the general attitude about nudity. Let's just hope that a day will come when Janet Jackson or any other celebrity can be willingly nude on TV without anyone complaining about it.
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