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Letter from the Publisher It has been an impossible task to curate this issue. The pile of work to consider has been immense, and we are bursting at the seams with photographs since the last issue. I suppose the problem of having too many submissions from which to select is an ideal one. I have done my best to bring you visually scintillating images and interesting essays and other written work. This issue is loosely based on different spins to similar themes. Our perspective of the world begins with sight, that most personal and unique way which provides us with information about both the internal and the external state of things. Photography provides artists with the rare opportunity to share the ways they understand and interpret the visual onslaught of the world. Nude photography opens the door to the most intimate of perceptions, and so slightly to radically varying approaches to the same subject matter offers the viewer an opportunity to metaphorically walk around our topic and see how the shadows and light shift. The photographer Dent de Leon shares about society’s killing of the erotic female connection to nature and utilizes the moth as a metaphor to discuss the contained, untamed aspect of the photographed female. I counter de Lion’s essay with one by [sic] highcastle which shows the unbridled explosion of sexuality removed from nature, but having natural roots in the uncontrolled self. In the work by highcastle the women have little care, if any, about being photographed. They live in their own state of non-nature, raw and open. I have been following, and loving, Brandon Jordan’s (aka Grizz) ability to meld urban photography with nude classical body forms hidden inside his images. In contrast, our resident writer Dan V. Smith makes a case for the nature of the standard classic nudes within photography in his essay Fundamentals. Finally, but in no way least, Josie Meyer shares with us her critical thoughts on whether modern advertising has taken nudity to a near pornographic height of vulgarity. I think no, she thinks otherwise. Meyer outlines her perspective through a critical analysis of current advertisements, assessing their artistic qualities and their impact as cultural meaning-making icons. There is so much more to experience in the magazine, it is the longest we’ve published at 88 pages. Please enjoy. Artists, writers, readers, thank you. Allicette Torres Publisher & Creative Director Karen Rayne Associate Editor Rachel Raimondi Contributing Editor Dan V. Smith Staff Writer Contributors Alveoli agxposed Davis Ayer Craig Blacklock Sylvie Blum Brandon Fernandez highcastle Marcus Jake Mark Haskins Harc Hervouet Lisa Kimberly Bertel King, Jr. Dave Levingston Dent de Lion Mikey McMichaels Scott Nichol MaxOperandi Matthew Scherfenberg Dave Swanson Kate Sweeney Antwan J Thompson James Wigger David Winge Advertising Amy Morlas [email protected] 646.355.8271 Clear Nude Magazine Volume 1 / No. 4 Summer 2014 ISBN-13: 978-0692291696 ISBN-10: 0692291695 Published 4 times a year. Executive, editorial and advertising PO BOX 664, New York, NY 10030 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] www.clearnude.com Purchase via Clear Nude magazine www.clearnude.com Purchase via Amazon 2 CLEAR NUDE | SUMMER 2014 © Kate Sweeney CLEAR NUDE | SUMMER 2014 3