Erotic Photography

the boundary between art, the nude, eroticism and pornography is very difficult to define, given that the differences are so much a question of culture and education

painting of the time, albeit in a more realistic, though simultaneously cruder, manner.

all forms of art have been at the service of eroticism from the beginning.

this French particularity and specificity lessened throughout the 20th century and has now completely disappeared.

photography was first developed in France

the first decades of erotic photography were essentially French.

“Eroticism lies in the possibility of a movement. It belongs to the realm of the dream.”

Jean-François Somain