Brassaï

To the general public, Guyla Halász (9 September 1899 - 8 July 1984) is more known as Brassaï - a pseudonym he took from the name of his place of birth, meaning "from Brasso". Brassaï was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, writer and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France, after he had moved to Paris. He often walked the streets of this city at night, and that is what led him into photography "in order to capture the beauty of streets and gardens in the rain and fog, and to capture Paris by night", as he later wrote. He spent a lot of time photographing the seedier life of the city, but also portrayed high society, intellectuals, his friends, the ballet and the grand operas. In 1936 Brassaï immigrated to New York, where he developed his reputation as a street photographer and exhibited his work. Many of his photos looks like stills from Film Noir movies. They're full of dark mists and feelings, and here are a few of them.

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Accessories: Leather Gloves, A Riding Crop.... And A Cat

A while ago I did a shoot with photographer Jonas Mattsson. The location was his apartment, and since he has a cat - Nina - I ended up with her as a co-model. She was very curious about what we were doing and found my riding crop to be a fun toy. As she was running in front of the camera all the time, we let her be part of a few of the photos.

The only light we used was the sun shining in through the window, and the lingerie I'm wearing in most of the photos are from Dita Von Teese's lingerie collection Von Follies. And here is the result!

Nina playing with my crop...

This pic was taken through the glass of an open window.

I love this last photo! While Jonas was changing the film in his camera I was cuddling with Nina. Just when she gave me a good head boop he snapped this pic. I wasn't ready for it at all! Haha!




Photo: Jonas Mattsson

Comfortable In My Birthday Suit

Going from being the smart nerd without friends in school, to daring to do what I do today - burlesque, modeling, going to auditions (and getting the parts!) etc - is something I have to say I feel proud of myself for doing! These things have really built up my confidence and made me feel comfortable in my own skin, even when I'm completely naked for everyone to see. Just after my very first nude shoot I felt very empowered, and not objectified at all! And with the right photographer behind the camera, I think art nudes can be extremely beautiful and interesting to look at. One of these photographers who has the ability to make nude models look really good is FG Photography. You've seen some pics he's taken of me here before (you can see them again here), and here comes two more! The gorgeous girl with me in the bottom pic is Midnight Maitresse...

Photo: FG Photography

Third Time's A Charm

I just did my third photo shoot with photographer Cato Lein, and as usual he managed to create some mysterious magic with his camera. We did the shoot in my apartment, with the thought of trying to get sort of a desolate, motel feeling. The only light used is what naturally came in through my windows. Here is the result!

The bottom one is my personal favorite. It reminds me of an old fashioned French card...

To see more of Cato Lein's work, visit his Facebook page here, and/or follow him on Instagram - @catolein_

Naked Again...

Last July I met a man. And the first thing I did when I saw him, was throw my clothes off! Haha! He calls himself FG Photography, is a very good photographer, and we had planed to do a nude shoot that day! We walked over to a dirty cellar close to his apartment - which was a really nice setting - and began shooting. And here comes the result! If you don't want to see me naked, don't scroll down! Hehe...

After cleaning myself off from all the dirt in the last picture, I though I had gotten most of it away. Looking in my small pocket mirror in the subdued light in the cellar made it look like I was pretty clean. Later when I got home and looked in a better mirror I realized I had lots of dirt left on my face though! No wonder people looked at me in a funny way on the subway... Haha! It was a fun shoot though, and a few weeks ago FG Photography shot me again! The result from that one will come in the future...

All photos by FG Photography.

Nude Shoot

WARNING! This post includes explicit nudity! MY nudity! So if you don't want to live the rest of your life with the image of my naked body imprinted in your brain, go do something else than read this post. Otherwise, carry on!

I have liked nude portraiture for as long as I can remember. It can be statues, paintings or photographs etc. As long as it's not done in a pornographic way that is...Or at least, that's not anything I would do myself. I don't mind if it's slightly erotic, but I think the human body can be portrayed and looked at for so many other reasons than the sexual ones. We were all born naked, so why is there still so much shame in nudity?

Among all my photographer friends there is one called Technical Boy. He specializes in art nudes and portraits. I have seen what he has done in the past, and he's really good at what he does, so I was glad to hear he wanted to shoot me too - naked...And to all you radical feminists out there; feminism is letting women do whatever they want to, without hearing people complain about it, and I wanted to get shot buck naked by this photographer, and it's my choice to show the result of the shoot here on my blog - for everyone to see! And neither me, nor the photographer got payed to do this! But now I'm going to stop rambling and let you see the pictures. Here is me - the way I was born!

After we were done shooting, I told Technical Boy I think everyone should find a good photographer and do a nude shoot at least once in their lives! If not to show the whole world on a blog, then just for themselves. This was my first complete nude shoot, and doing it felt so liberating and empowering! I do have a little dream about doing a shoot naked, wearing only lots of diamonds though. Just need to find those diamonds...

More of Technical Boy's work can be seen on his web site, and on his Facebook page.

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