Irving Penn.

.......the art of " flashing "....or " flashy ' as art....??

He has a good bod in this photo;)

Helmut Newton did a few nude self portraits in the past.

Who cares! ...and after all that, nothing about Galliano's slutty geisha thing chez Dior - or am I off track?

.....somehow there is something in the pic that abruptly projects in the mind.....that image from the fairy tale book..." The Emperor's New Cloth "....and suddenly you hear someone saying “ he is just naked”.....as an observation .....

man ray,arbus,penn,traeger,klein,newton,and defo sarah...moon.

it is a thin line with self portraits, its nice to look at an image from a photographer and not have any image or preconcieved notion of them - it can just get in the way of their work, unless their work is to be centered around them as a subject.

oh my god is he and his photography uninteresting.
it is not on the same planet as the "self portraits" by newton, but the days of that kind of photographer are sadly gone.
here today, gone tomorrow. another 100.000 in the bank.
anyone wonders why photography is almost dead today...