Naked Los Angeles - Greg Friedler

The people of Los Angeles are men and women of
all shapes, ages, colors, and professions living in a city famed for its Hollywood glamour and
perpetual summer. Photographed outdoors we see a magician, screenwriter, trapeze artist,
unemployed surfer, filmmaker, casting director,
aerospace engineer, and many more. This serious
and, at the same time, amusing group of
portraits shows the surprising differences and
not so surprising similarities we have to one
another clothed and unclothed.Unlike
traditional nude photography, these portraits
don't have erotic or sexual overtones; they are simply real people who reveal both their clothed
public selves and their naked private selves.
Greg Friedler's work as a documentary
photographer is a kind of anthropological survey of people. If clothing is a voluntary choice,
unclothed we see people in an involuntary
state-we see their bodies as we see their faces, unmasked. These images are at once deeply
intimate and refreshingly matter of fact.