If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.

I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.

If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.

Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that many people get from being well dressed.

I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.