Thirty years of research are here summarised in one scholarly monograph.
Past Masters of the Nude is an annotated bibliography: that is to say, it is a list of books, together with a full description of, and comments on, each of them. Specifically, the bibliography attempts to list all the hardback books which were (a) collections of photographs of the nude and (b) published in England between 1896 and 1960.
The overall purpose of this bibliography is to provide information which will be useful to anyone who is interested in photography of the nude. In particular, the book is intended to be of value to collectors, book dealers, librarians and historians.
