MONA KUHN/ CROSS CURRENT

Critics have observed that Mona Kuhn's subjects seem nude but not naked . Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the impres sion that nothing could clothe them better than their own skin. Kuhn, who photographs in the naturist or nudist community, often in domestic interiors, weaves together gestures from the traditional iconography of nude studies with the comfortable body language of her subjects, creating a visual patois at once classical and contemporary. Critics have observed that Mona Kuhn's subjects seem nude but not na...[Read more]