![]() “The male nude was the ideal and principal subject in art in ancient Greece and early renaissance art” says photographer Yushi Li, who appears in the exhibition Nude alongside Scruggs. It feels good to go back to my roots to push even further than I have before.”. “The Black Male Form is a phrase I’ve used most of my career to describe my work”, she wrote, “Unfortunately I rarely get hired to shoot men. The show opened a week after Scruggs posted a mission statement on Instagram, where she revealed her ongoing project The Black Male Form. Her photo series Roze en la Playa on show at New York’s Fotografiska Nude exhibition illustrates how Scruggs is committed to addressing the inequality of male and female nudes in art. The last century of visual culture has seen the female body become a passive creative object used to benefit advertising, art, commerce and pornography, largely by and for men. If you like it great, if you don’t, that’s okay too” – her next step involves moving the needle on the use of the male nude in art. It’s a lack of parity that Scruggs wants to subvert, “the male nude has been marginalized because there’s never been a dude with his penis out on the side of a bus”, she says, “only now are we starting to see male actors going full frontal in TV and film on a more consistent basis.”.ĭana Scruggs, Rōze En La Playa (2016) Dana Scruggsīecoming more radical as her career progresses – in January Scruggs took to Instagram resolving to “just do what I want. “Seeing the female body nude is extremely commonplace”, Scruggs elaborates, “there’s literally been countless advertisements of naked women on billboards and in magazines, and actresses are constantly expected to show full frontal nudity on screen.”. Her recently released photo series The Black Male Form sees Scruggs - known for shooting high profile celebrity magazine cover stories - vow to use the male body as an object, in the same way many male artists have done with the female body throughout art history. “The male nude is by leaps and bounds way less exoticized than the female nude in art, and in all forms of media”, the photographer Dana Scruggs tells me. This dates as far back as Fast Times at Ridgemont High director Amy Heckerling analyzing the impact of Phoebe Cates’ strip tease by the swimming pool, up through Shannon Elizabeth discussing how she likely owes her career to being nude in American Pie.Yushi Li, The Feast, 2020, image courtesy Yushi Li Yushi Li The documentary gets roughly 55 different interviewees to sit down and discuss their experiences with on-screen nudity in the film industry. Yes, by narrowing their focus to the benchmark examples of male and female nudity in Hollywood, Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies still covers a ton of ground. This is a history of nudity in the movies, male and female. Skin) were caught off guard, and guessed:ĭanny Wolf: It’s gotta be 100 or so? At least 100 scenes of nudity, and we probably left out 40,000.Jim McBride: And it is male and female, we should point out. But when we asked them during a recent press sit down just how many nude scenes they included, director Danny Wolf and executive producer Jim McBride (best known as Mr. The filmmakers really did their homework. There are a surprising number of famous Hollywood nude scenes included in the new documentary, covering everything from Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct to Dakota Johnson in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy.
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