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Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939) is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), often featuring ornately decorated photographic models, including people with dwarfism, transgender and intersex persons, as well as people living with a range of physical features.
It is necessary to build a three-dimensional virtual model of the body where the organs are labeled, may be removed selectively and viewed from all sides, and ideally are even animated. Two commercial software products accomplish the majority of these goals, the VH Dissector from Touch of Life Technologies and from Voxel-Man the VOXEL-MAN 3D ...
The models' poses tended to be active: standing figures seem about to stir and even seated figures gesticulate dramatically. Close observation of the model's body was secondary to the rendering of his gesture, and many drawings - consistent with academic theory - seem to present a representative figure rather than a specific body or face.
The model may show the anatomy partially dissected, or have removable parts allowing the student to remove and inspect the modelled body parts. Some models may have changeable genital inserts and other interchangeable parts which permit a unisex model to represent an individual of either sex. [citation needed]
However, many photographers took nude photos which they offered for sale directly to customers. In published photos, models were most commonly attired in a "posing strap": a G-string-like undergarment which covered only the genitals. In other cases, models wore shorts, swim suits, or had their genitals obscured by a towel, sheet, or other object.
The video, entitled "Decoy," features six talented photographers who were invited to take a portrait of one man. %shareLinks-quote="A photograph is shaped more by the person behind the camera than ...
By this method, body diagrams can be derived by pasting organs into one of the "plain" body images shown below. This method requires a graphics editor that can handle transparent images, in order to avoid white squares around the organs when pasting onto the body image. Pictures of organs are found on the project's main page. These were ...
An art model is a person who poses, often nude, for visual artists as part of the creative process, providing a reference for the human body in a work of art. As an occupation, modeling requires the often strenuous ' physical work ' of holding poses for the required length of time, the 'aesthetic work' of performing a variety of interesting ...