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The special social problems created by the photographic nude forced photographers, this time as artists working in the tradition, to ask once again what the traditional female nude is. Is it a representation of typical Woman as an example of the beauty of nature,
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or is it an idealized image of the perfect woman, beauty selected and purified?
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Or is it something else, perhaps an image as image, with the naked woman simply providing stronger emotional echoes than those which most subjects could produce?
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The photographers' problem was made more difficult by the fact that photography was growing up at a time when painters felt forced to ask the same questions.
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