​Gordon Osmundson​Nude Photography

I have been a large format fine art photographer who has been working in the Adams/Weston tradition shooting mostly landscape and industrial subjects.  My work has been in LensWork, View Camera and Trains Magazines and I am known for the quality of my black and white images.

A few years back I started shooting with a digital camera and in late 2011, through Meetup groups, I began shooting the nude.  Working with models has been a new experience for me and some of you have been amazing.  Every shoot has produced something different and I now have a portfolio with some images that I'm very pleased with.

I'm now starting to work with models on a one on one basis, so if you area a model and like what you see let me know and perhaps we can work together.  I'm particularly interested in working with local gals who I can work with on an ongoing basis and do location shoots that depend on the Bay Area’s variable weather.  If you are not a model, well enjoy.

I have been trying to define just what it is that I am trying to do, it is not fashion or even so much glamor, but rather the relationship between an artist and his muse.  As such I want my models to be my muse, at least when they are in front of my camera.  Robert Graves described the muse-poet relationship as being where the poet serves as the mouthpiece of the muse.  Of course what the poet writes is his translation of what his muse is saying.

As I see it, with the muse-photographer, it is the muse who is being creative, she acts through gesture, facial expression and body language.  The photographer looks after the lighting, composition, tonal separation, provides the setting, helps to set the mood, but then merely interprets and records what the muse has to say.