From his website:

Robert Farber~Fine Art :

"Welcome to the Fine Art Gallery exhibiting Robert Farber's expressions of the nude. His work in nudes have many parallels in painting. For example, his classical nudes seem to draw inspiration from the old Dutch masters, and the softness of many of his images echo Renoir's Impressionism, yet his graphic nudes have all the strength of abstract art."

Hard to believe I've been posting for months and haven't put up one true nude, aside from the large-breasted mannequins piece, that is. 

Fifty years ago, I was looking around my father's study, a small room off the garage, where he worked on his first book, The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned, and I found one of his photo magazines. His day job required him to shoot photos as well as write and edit marketing materials for the companies where he worked before that book became a best-seller, setting him free from the workaday world.

I was five years old, obsessed with Superman and Zorro for the most part.

Back then, the photo magazines were very different from the soft-core porn they are today. I remember though, as if it were yesterday, looking through the magazine.

Still-lifes, landscapes, nature photography and then, near the back of the magazine, at the bottom of the page, a tiny picture of a naked woman.

And I knew in that moment that there was a universe full of wonder to explore, a world of mystery of which I had been heretofore unaware. And that that exploration would shape my life.

Little did I know.

I purchased Robert Farber's book, Natural Beauty, the other day. While I am certain he would be dismissed as too commercial by much of the art world, the man does have an eye for the naked form.

He does some lovely landscape and flower work as well.

As I said to this young woman who had just received her Master's in Women's Studies at Mills College, "I've been studying women for forty-five years and I know less now than when I began."

Thank you, girls.

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