Eros Books. Nudes of Yesteryear

Eros Books. Nudes of YesteryearEros Books, 1966. — 104 p.Originally intended as a feature for Eros, this collection of antique photographs just grew and grew until, after several years, it became large enough to constitute this book. To locate the ladies in Nudes of Yesteryear, Eros researchers hunted through archives, attics, book-stalls, and family trunks all over Europe and America.The resulting portfolio depicts French girls in the dingy, drafty ateliers of fin de siecle Paris (many of them are the models who posed for Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir,and other celebrated artists of the period); voluptuous Italian girls in the studios of Florence; and carefree American girls pausing on the Grand Tour of Europe to strike poses that they would never have dreamed of assuming back home.