| Summary: | Over a period of many years, Claudio Alessandri has photographed women from his circle of acquaintances -- women who had never posed nude before, let alone had any experience of a professional studio. The resulting series of 120 nudes is a study in female diversity, and an intense document of their eroticism, charisma and joy. Sturdy and delicate bodies with heavy breasts and tiny breasts, with young skin and wrinkled skin, are presented to the camera with pride and with reticence. The diversity of female body language and the eloquence of self-projection merge with an intensity of expression and fragility that occurs only in exceptional circumstances, such as this, where each woman is being professionally photographed for the very first time.<p>All the photographs were taken with a large-format camera. Not only because of the outstanding quality of the results, but also in order to give the women posing for the camera the time and respect they deserved. The photographer himself says that he loves women the way nature created them. With the camera, he seeks to emphasize that natural beauty. We not only gain the impression that the women are showing themselves as they like to see themselves, but can well imagine that quite a few of them may have discovered a new aspect of their own beauty in the resulting nude photographs.
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