The human form contents me, I find everything there, up to the eternal
Memoirs of Hadrian. M.Yourcenar.
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste.
Helmut Newton
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I enjoy Leon’s nudes because (among other reasons) they express a strange mix, quite unsettling, of sexuality and austerity, of apparent rest and controlled pain, a gracious fluidity along an inner tension. I don’t know if he is aware of this when he is focused on the spot, in front of that offered and never-ending mystery of the human body…