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By Alan Phelps
Senior Editor
“The Neck is a Sensuous Thing.”
Visitors to the Sheldon Memo
rial Art Gallery at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln are greeted with
that title on one of the photographs
in the George Tuck exhibit. On the
picture, one can look at the neck in
question.
Other photos in the nude sec
tion of the exhibit allow a glance at
various other female body parts,
many of them well below the neck.
Tuck, a journalism professor at
UNL and the man behind nude
portraits such as “The Enchanted
Forest," said nude photography is
just another outlet for artists’ crea
tivity.
“It’s one other subject matter to
explore," he said. “It’s just a small
part of what I do, 90 to 95 percent
(of my photos) are not nude.”
Tuck said nude photosare much
like other photos. The basic photo
graphic elements such as lighting,
texture and form are all important
when comparing the quality of dif
ferent nudes.
“You look for.. .something that
has some air of mystery that per
haps raises questions rather than
answers them," he said.
One of the most important things
about doing artistic nude photog
raphy, Tuck said, is finding the
right person to shoot.
“ Y ou have to fi nd someone who
is relaxed, somebody who thinks it
would be fun to do,” he said,
“somebody who feels comfortable
with themselves."
David Dale, owner of David Dale
Photography, 1621 A St., doesn’t
have to look for models. They come
to him.
“I don’t advertise because I don’t
want people to think that’s all that
we do," he said.
Dale said that if someone phones
his business and inquires about
what he calls “boudoir” portraits he
will oblige if the concept is tasteful.
“I’d say 1 or 2 percent of my
business is this kind of work," he
said. “I do five or six (nude photos)
a year out of three or four hundred
portraits."
Dale said most of the nude
portraits he shoots are body stud
ies in black and white.
The majority of customers who
go to photographers for nude sit
tings are women who want the
photos to give to their boyfriends
or husbands as gifts, Dale said. He
said he had never taken a boudoir
portrait of iust a man, but he once
photographed a couple.
Dale said women who ask for
nude sittings usually range in age
from 20 or 25 up to 40 years old.
“They want to do it before they
start falling apart,” he said. “They
can look back when they get older
and say, ‘Wow, I had a nice body.’
It’s something they can remem
ber.”
Dale said he hoped to put to
gether a private show of his work
in the next couple of years, possi
bly for the Sheldon.
“I’ve just got to work to get some
pieces together,” he said "That’s
the kind of market I’m delving
into.”
Tuck said his show, which in
cludes a variety of his recent pho
tos shot around the world, is some
thing that has been in the works for
three years. He said he gave the
Sheldon 60 of his prints, out of
which 45 were chosen for display
until Nov. 24.
Tuck said he didn’t think the
nudes in the exhibit had caused
any controversy.
“It’s in a reputable museum, and
as such, people that go to the
museum expect a wide variety of
material to be present,” he said.
“It’s the kind of environment in
which if you don’t like it, you can
move on.”
Tuck said he is able to sell some
of his nudes, but he doesn’t think
there is a very big market for them.
“My main purpose is not to make
money,” he said
He said he is flattered and pleased
when someone buys one of his
photos, he said, but, “I don’t have
to make a living off sales of my
works.”
Dale said he charges by the hour
for boudoir photos rather than
charging his normal flat fee.
“It takes a little time. It’s not
something you can just jump into,”
he said.
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