I guess where you feel that the vintasge aera ends and where the retro begins depends on when you're born. I've seen images from the early thirties called retro and images from the seventies called vintage. Well, I'm born in 1953, so on this site the vintage aera ends in 1939 and the rertro starts in 1940 and ends somwhere in the middle of the seventies.

Finding series photos from this aera is hard work. Than again that makes the joy of discovering a nice series much greater. This is a presentation of what I've found so far.



The photographers of the vintage area had discovered the intriguing effect a mirror lends to a nude photography. Being able to show a model from two angles in the same images posts a tempting challenge even to day.



Agfa invented the colour photo prosess as late as in 1935 so most colour images that falls into the vintage category ar hand coloured. This often gives the images a slight larger than life feeling. I have laid the colour on some of the images here my self, some with watercolours and some digitaly.



Oh, the pre nylon age. Linnen, cotton and silk. The lingeries on most of these vintage images are exquisit . Embroderies, lace and ribbons. Most of the images in these galleries are non-nude, but dont pass them by, take the time to enoy the soft erotic tutch these garments lends to an image.



The idolised female form was quite different in the vintage area than later in the century. Breast should be smaller, the waist not nearly so narrow and the buttocks broad and soft. And their attitude should be much less forward.



Softness was a major part of the female projection in those days. These were still days when men ruled the earth and women should be protected and should look like they needed it.



Most of these images have been retouched rather heavily, so the pubic hair is seldom so prominent as in the retro area. It is usually more what one might call a shadow.



The photographers of the area often chose to show their models in a reclining position. It appealed to the man as a provider and protector. These images were of course then as they are now, mainly produced for a male clientele.