Nudes for the 21st Century: Photography and commentary

What is new?
To create the nude for the 21st Century, I have experimented with style to reflect the aesthetic and societal evolution that accompanies the new Millennium. I present the outcomes using black-and-white photography. This medium is inherently more abstract than, for example, color photography; and, as such, it provides a surreal means to represent the nude. Because the nude is the longest enduring theme in the history of art, depicting the nude to represent new aesthetic values requires innovation. Thus, the sine qua non of this work is that the 21st-Century nude differs in its visual impact from the nudes of earlier epochs. Before describing the features of the 21st-Century nude that are evolutionary, I mention some aspects of the nude that reflect the tenor of earlier epochs.