A Photography Exhibit of Female Nudes and Semi Nudes at La Hune Gallery, Paris

So. My great, big, grand adventure did not pan out after all. I had something nice planned and had been looking forward to it bigly. But low and behold, when I double checked my itinerary, I discovered to my horror that I could not use my Navigo to get there as originally thought. Someone must have given me bad info because I was convinced the Navigo would take me there. But no. Not. So it meant I had to dig into my pockets for the commute and then the big unveil once I got there and I just could not spring for it this time around. I had to pass, to my chagrin.

But not to be deterred, I decided to go check out an exhibit at La Hune Gallery in the Saint Germain des Près area of Paris. Actually, it is literally in front of the church, this gallery, though I have never noticed it before, though, apparently, it had been under "travaux" for about a year. So maybe that's why I never noticed.

There were a few exhibits going on at this place. For example, these photos were on the main floor and were by various artists:

But the main act was by a German ex model turned photographer named Ellen Von Unwerth who has taken a ton of photos of famous and semi famous women in the nude and all manners of disrobement. Madonna, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell to name a few. Naked or semi naked. You name it. Black and White images. This exhibit was upstairs in the gallery.

Normally, I am probably too much of a prude to appreciate an exhibit like this. I have been working on that aspect of my personality in fact. That is why, last summer, I made myself paint a vagina. Yes, a vagina. I painted a vagina.  It was a total shock to my system to have done something so uncouth! Like, OMG!!! I look at it and, I mean, I think, "wtf were you thinking about?!" you know? There IS a story behind why I did that but we won't discuss it. Suffice to say that I think the human body is very beautiful and it is nothing to be ashamed of. Which is, I guess, the whole point of me having done that series last year to remind myself that the human body is nothing to be ashamed of.

So, moving right along….Ellen's pictures were very interesting, and beautiful, I should say. I put some up on Instagram.You can see some of the photos I took below.