Nacktkultur or “Nude Culture” was a movement in 1920s Germany that celebrated nudity with a cult-like pagan worship of nature. This included sun worship and an immense amount of frolicking, jumping, sporting, and somersaulting nude through grass. Photography by Gerhard Riebicke

Youth and angst permeate skateboarder Ed Templeton’s photography like a wetdream that soaks all the way down to the mattress. He is having a mid-career survey exhibition of his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Gent, Belgium this year. Visit his portfolio at www.tinyvices.com.

Young lady blows her brains out in bed.

“The day I arrived in Sweden – which was the day of Louise Bourgeois’ death, I was walking down by the water and had to go to the bathroom really badly (the trickling canal wasn’t helping:) – I found a construction site with a porta potty and inside taped to the roof was a news paper photograph of Louise’s spider (attached in the pdf), the sun was shining through the white roof of the porta potty so the article on the opposite side showed through as well – a photograph of a beach in Sweden with the headline Pictures From Forgotten Corners - this double image with the words summed up all of my travels thus far – later I traveled to the Island of Grinda off Stockholm and saved the life of brilliantly white spider that was struggling to stay a float in the lapping shore break by reaching out a broken branch for it to hold onto….I was certain Louise’s spirit was watching.” Text by Dustin Lynn ~ View previous post: “From the Travel Folio of Dustin Lynn.”

Lydia Lopokova was a star ballerina, daughter of a Russian serf, on again off again lover of Stravinsky (he got around apparently), and wife of economist John Maynard Keynes. This one goes out to Ilona….

“The heroines in Amanda Zackem’s photographs are, by turns, storm-tossed on a sea of blankets, muscular in mid-motion, and supple as cats”

Photography by Amanda Zackem

LOVE BIRDS – ABOARED THE FERRY TO THE ISLAND OF GRINDA, SWEDEN (2010)

OMBRES DES HOMMES – PARIS, FRANCE (2010)

From a series of photographs entitled Brass Tears, filmmaker, artist, and fervent traveler Dustin Lynn captures brilliant images of his solo odyssey from “Barcelona to Morocco, to Cannes, to Paris and ending on the Island of Grinda in Sweden.” More images from his journey can be found at www.oastronauta.tumblr.com.

DETOUR – FES, MOROCCO (2010)

SATORI BIRD – PARIS, FRANCE (2010)