3-D Physiques: The Stereo Nudes of Denny Denfield

In the 1950`s San Francisco photographer Denny Denfield recorded thousands of handsome and muscular young men with his Stereo Realist Camera. Stereo photography -- pictures that can be seen in three dimensions and take on an amazing lifelike reality -- have been around for a long time, but these are definitely not your grandmother's stereo-views! Denfield took nude stereo photos of friends, professional physique models and others. Peer through the enclosed viewer into a secret world of naked, masculine beauty and highly charged eroticism. These nude stereos are a unique document of a time, a place and an all-but-forgotten photographic technique.