Heidrun

About Günter Rössler

There’s a lot written about the differences between East and West Germany and the topic of nudity is not left out. The implicitness with which someone from the east viewed nudity in private spaces, would never be obtained by someone from the west. This is most obvious in nude photography.  Western nude photography from the 50’s onward is steeped in an extreme abstraction, with bodies stylized as graphical compositions, devoid of any eroticism.   “The nude is reduced to characteristic, basic shapes, non-specific symbols of the female body until the subject matter is simply presented as a building block to the pictorial composition,” said Otto Steinert, 1954. “The… Read more