The anti-natalist philosopher David Benatar argues that it would be better if no one had children ever again. This is the only time I have been photographed naked. So why did I opt to do this? Maybe because no one had ever asked before. Maybe to look at what six decades of use and abuse looks like in my case. Definitely to join in on this great, joyous fleshy statement about being alive.” Credit: Ponch Hawkes While Hawkes says “most couldn’t give a hoot” about stripping off, others were slightly anxious, but all agreed it was an important thing to do. “It’s embracing the body whatever shape and size you are really.” As she walks around the artwork, Helen frowns before she yells at him: “You only want me for the pictures!” Despite the restrictive laws, she claimed to have enjoyed her time on-set and later described Melbourne as one of the world’s “greatest cities”.

J.Lo in her 50s is even more powerful than we could have imagined, from the Benaissance to her entrepreneurial side coming out in full force. Among her new product lines is J.Lo Body, for which she released a fully nude ad campaign of herself on her 53rd birthday this year. It’s not the first time J.Lo has posed naked since she turned 40, and we’re happily confident it won’t be her last.

I didn’t realise that when I started doing this. It’s a really daring experience and a really trusting experience, that they would come to me,” she says. “Basically what this is doing is honouring women.” The International Movie Database (IMDB) claimed that the film was initially released with an X-rating but later was released under a lesser A-rating after parts were censored. The behind-the-scenes pics alone were worth the experience. It was awkward at first, but after the first five minutes, it was business as usual.

The crew of Nude to Me wanted to “walk the walk” as they spent time at the Van Tan Club, so they stripped down to film interviews with club members. (CBC/Nude to Me) Supermodel Stephanie Seymour posed alongside Claudia Schiffer for Vogue Italia in 2019, and one very risqué snapshot of Seymour shows her wearing only a low-slung belt and high heels. The composition of A husband and wife in the woods at a nudist camp, N.J. 1963 establishes tension between the everyday pose and habituated relationship of the man and woman, and their nudity. The clarity of the image and studio portrait style contrasts with their appearance and the forest setting. This tension belies the ethical question at the centre of Arbus’s photographic practice. For instance, in an article entitled ‘Notes on the Nudist Camp’, written for (but not published by) Esquire in 1966 after a visit to the Sunrise Haven Nudist Camp, Arbus noted that, ‘for many of [the nudists], their presence [at nudist camps] is the darkest secret of their lives, unsuspected by relatives, friends, and employers in the outside world, the disclosure of which might bring disgrace. Everyone is known by their first name’ (Arbus 1966, p.69). Despite this concern, the couple in the photograph appear without attempting to conceal their identities, with the man offering a smile. In her photographic practice Arbus often sought out subjects who might be considered ‘outsiders’, and got to know them before she photographed them. Whether you're strongly for or against naturism, it's a great conversation starter. So yes, Nude to Me is a fun and light-hearted film, but if it can spark dialogue, that's a success in my eyes.I have three grandchildren, 8, 10, and 16 and they think nanna's hot,” she admitted. “I feel healthy, I feel beautiful.” Our collection Artists Artworks Art by theme Explore Videos Podcasts Short articles In depth Art Terms Tate Research Student resources Make art Create like an artist Kids art activities Tate Draw game Getting your gear off in front of a stranger is not something you do every day. But a new exhibition of women aged over 50 photographed naked demanded exactly that.

The program was so named after a quote from the famous Magnum agency photographer Eve Arnold, who wrote about photographing actress Joan Crawford in New York in the 1950s: “There she was nude – but sadly, something happens to flesh after 50.” Lead curator Jane Scott says Flesh After Fifty is about promoting change in attitudes about what constitutes a healthy body image. “Older women are in need of the opportunity to celebrate their bodies and young women are in desperate need of positive images of mature women to alleviate the fear and misgivings they have about ageing.” The show is part of a broader event called Flesh After Fifty, the name a quote from movie star Joan Crawford, who at that age reportedly demanded a photojournalist shoot her naked, saying “Something happens to the flesh after fifty.”

You also need to watch out for her bear traps and other things lurking in the dark, like her pets, for example. My grandmother's health was deteriorating, and as a filmmaker, I wanted [to find] a way to document her life. The women who seemed very relaxed talked about how nudity was not an issue in their house when growing up,” Hawkes observes. “Some other women said they hadn’t taken their clothes off in front of anyone for a long time.”

In 1963 Arbus shot a series of photographs of nudists which included images such as A y oung waitress at a nudist camp, N.J. 1963 1963, printed after 1971 (Tate AR00526) and Retired man and his wife in a nudist camp one morning, N.J. 1963 1963 (Tate AR00510). In these images, and throughout her work, the contrast between normality and abnormality is a critical theme. With her direct, unapologetic approach to her portraits she explores varieties of human physicality and identity that do not conform to traditional societal expectations. By removing the theatrical veneer of convention and portraying the couple in a manner true to their identity, Arbus challenges the viewer’s expectations of what constitutes a portrait. Suzanne Goodrich is 64. The former handbag designer maintains her fit physique by hitting the gym in Los Angeles three times a week. When photographer Ponch Hawkes went looking for images of naked older women on the internet, she found acres of blank space, then a rich vein of what’s termed “granny porn”.Participants could opt to remain anonymous, using a range of props to cover their faces, from fans and books to fruit, footies and saucepans, animal masks and seaweed; one even brought a chandelier. Her leading man was said to be an artist who left his “conventions behind in London” and propositioned the young star to model for him. year-old Alicia Silverstone bared it all for a good cause on Dec 20 in a PETA campaign against animal leather. “I never, ever, get naked in TV, in film, nothin’, never, nope — but I’ve done it for PETA because that’s how much it matters to me,” she said in the campaign’s behind the scenes video. She added, “I’d rather go naked than wear animals.” In the final picture, Silverstone is seen wearing nothing but cowboy boots as she covers herself up in a sexy pose in a cactus field. Because they thought older women shouldn’t be excluded from the visual archive of our lives,” says Hawkes. “We don’t know know what the normal process of ageing is with women because we don’t see any images of them.”