Help Me Find Illustrative Nudes of Homo Sapiens!

[Lord J Esq]

I'm working on an essay that I'd like to have a visual for:

I am trying to find a pair of complementary images of a generic, adult female and male human, from head to toe, as seen from the front, naked and with their external genitalia fully visible, in a non-pornographic and non-erotic context. I don't want drawings or sketches, like on the Pioneer 11 plaque. I'd like actual photographs, but without anything else in the images except the humans themselves. Kinda like driver's license photos, except full-body and undressed.

To put it simply, I'm looking for scientific-grade visual representations of our species. But I am having a very hard time finding such images from among a sea of mostly pornography and some non-photographic sketches. Google has failed me (!), and sites like Wikipedia are a joke when it comes to this stuff.

I'd rather not have to go to the trouble of scanning in something from a book; I'm sure it's online somewhere. So I might as well appeal to the community: Anybody?

[Ramsus]

http://fineart.sk

[Lord J Esq]

Thanks, but most of what's on that site is either advertising links to other sites, or hidden behind a pay wall. Not good enough.

[MsBlack]

http://www.btinternet.com/~eplaz/euronat/images/nudist_photo.jpg
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=nudists

[Lord J Esq]

Thanks, but both the specific photo you offered and the search string you provided do not satisfy the criteria I outlined above. First of all, female and male--not female only. Second of all, no extraneous content in the picture; just the humans themselves. That means no backgrounds, no other people...just a female and male (either in one photo together or two apart) against a neutral background.

[MsBlack]

Ah ok. I thought even if they were just females something was better than nothing but I should have read more carefully.

[V_Translanka]

What you're looking for is a man by the name of Leonardo Da Vinci.



Hell, any of the masters' work should help out with that, really.

[Ramsus]

Thanks, but most of what's on that site is either advertising links to other sites, or hidden behind a pay wall. Not good enough.

I think the problem is that you fail at the Internet.

Female:
http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=2
Male:
http://fineart.sk/show.php?w=325

A little Photoshop and you have a matching male/female set.

[Lord J Esq]

Thanks, but most of what's on that site is either advertising links to other sites, or hidden behind a pay wall. Not good enough.

I think the problem is that you fail at the Internet.

Female:
http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=2
Male:
http://fineart.sk/show.php?w=325

A little Photoshop and you have a matching male/female set.

I think what you meant to say is, "Is this what you were looking for, Josh?" Then I could have told you, "No, Ramsus. You're getting closer, but it's not quite there yet." As opposed, ya know, to making yourself look like an ass by making like you're deigning to help me as though it's some great big favor, but then fucking up anyway.

The sole male picture you provided is totally unusable: The image is too low in resolution; the guy is as orange as a carrot; he isn't standing in a neutral pose; and he isn't even all that representative of what males actually look like.

The eleven pages of female pictures you provided are a step in the right direction, but not satisfactory. There's still the low resolution issue, and more importantly the aesthetic quality just isn't to my satisfaction. More importantly still, there's no variety in size, shape, ethnicity, or pose: Essentially, the photographer photographed the same woman over and over again, in exactly the same pose each time. Thus, it's as though you provided me just one picture.

However, that degree of specificity wasn't in my original request, so I will not begrudge you for your help. Thank you!

Anyhow, if anybody else cares to take a stab at this, I'd much appreciate it. Otherwise, I'll just go through the trouble of going to the copy shop and scanning images from a book I have.

[Ramsus]

Thanks, but most of what's on that site is either advertising links to other sites, or hidden behind a pay wall. Not good enough.

I think the problem is that you fail at the Internet.

Female:
http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=2
Male:
http://fineart.sk/show.php?w=325

A little Photoshop and you have a matching male/female set.

I think what you meant to say is, "Is this what you were looking for, Josh?" Then I could have told you, "No, Ramsus. You're getting closer, but it's not quite there yet." As opposed, ya know, to making yourself look like an ass by making like you're deigning to help me as though it's some great big favor, but then fucking up anyway.

The sole male picture you provided is totally unusable: The image is too low in resolution; the guy is as orange as a carrot; he isn't standing in a neutral pose; and he isn't even all that representative of what males actually look like.

The eleven pages of female pictures you provided are a step in the right direction, but not satisfactory. There's still the low resolution issue, and more importantly the aesthetic quality just isn't to my satisfaction. More importantly still, there's no variety in size, shape, ethnicity, or pose: Essentially, the photographer photographed the same woman over and over again, in exactly the same pose each time. Thus, it's as though you provided me just one picture.

However, that degree of specificity wasn't in my original request, so I will not begrudge you for your help. Thank you!

Anyhow, if anybody else cares to take a stab at this, I'd much appreciate it. Otherwise, I'll just go through the trouble of going to the copy shop and scanning images from a book I have.

Honestly, that's about what I expected. Not hi-res enough, or not quite the pose you were looking for. Seriously, you asked for help, and I gave it to you to a T. Man standing front and back, not porn. Woman, same thing. With a little Photoshop, looks good enough printed from some crappy color inkjet printer for an essay. And this makes me look like an ass? Resolution is the most important specification. If you need something hi-res, you should have said so.

And you already have images in a book, yet you're looking for "hi-resolution" images on the Internet? Sorry, but you don't see what a waste of time that is? I really don't see what you expect to accomplish online when you need to be THAT specific and choosy about the images. It's just a damn essay after all. Are you even laying out the text nicely and getting it professionally printed? If the quality is that important to you then, they sell scanners at Wal-Mart for $30, or you can browse stock photo libraries like gettyimages and buy a few photos.

If you're too cheap for that AND still picky, Deviantart also has a stock-photo section with a lot of photos, but good luck finding something you can use.

You're a bloody perfectionist of the worst type, aren't you?

[Lord J Esq]

Just because you can't produce what I'm looking for, doesn't make it un-producible, nor does it render me a "bloody perfectionist of the worst sort." Thanks for playing.

This topic is going nowhere fast. I'll lock it up in the next day or so.