Naked woman in the woods, color, France, 1910s

Large collection of erotic art

In 1980, the École Nationale Supérieure D'Art de Nancy found 59 boxes of autochromes, with 6,370 photographs in 9×12 cm format in its archives. All autochromes were taken between 1907 and 1919 in the part of Lorraine that remained French after the Treaty of Frankfurt. The collection was digitized in 2012. The themes photographed are varied: portraits, urban and rural landscapes, composite scenes, and nudes. The collection is kept at the National School of Art in Nancy. Julien Gérardin was a notary and an amateur photographer in Nancy, France, where he was born on March 28, 1860. He started practicing photography in 1899, the year of his admission to the Lorraine Society of Photography. Lorraine Society of Photography was an important association of amateur photographers and included more than 500 members in 1900. He made a projection presentation of his first autochromes to society in May 1908. Julien Gérardin was also a member of the Société centrale D'Horticulture de Nancy, which dedicated a prize to him, awarded for the first time in 2016. Single and childless, Julien Gérardin died in 1924, in Nancy, at the age of 64.

Erotic photography dates back to the early days of photography in the 19th century. There were a number of photographers who specialized in producing erotic images in the 19th century, including Félicien Rops, Édouard-Henri Avril, and Alphonse Eugène Lumière. These photographers often used allegorical or symbolic imagery to depict sexual themes, as overt displays of sexuality were not socially acceptable at the time. Félicien Rops was a Belgian artist who produced a number of highly stylized and provocative images featuring women in various states of undress. These images were popular with collectors and were widely exhibited in galleries and salons. Édouard-Henri Avril was a French photographer who produced a series of highly stylized and erotic images featuring women in various states of undress. These images were popular with collectors and were widely exhibited in galleries and salons. Alphonse Eugène Lumière was a French photographer who produced a number of erotic photographs, many of which featured his wife, Bibi, as the model. Lumière's photographs were known for their playful and lighthearted approach to sexuality and were widely exhibited in galleries and salons. In the 1920s, Adolfo Camarillo, a Mexican photographer, produced a series of highly stylized and provocative images featuring women in various states of undress. These images were popular with collectors and were widely exhibited in galleries and salons. Jacques-Henri Lartigue was a French photographer who produced a number of erotic photographs, many of which featured his wife, Bibi, as the model. Lartigue's photographs were known for their playful and lighthearted approach to sexuality and were widely exhibited in galleries and salons. Alfred Stieglitz is also known for his photographs of nudes. Stieglitz's photographs of nudes are notable for their honesty and their ability to capture the beauty and complexity of the human form. It is not uncommon for image recognition software to make errors or have difficulty accurately identifying the subjects of a photograph. We are doing our best to remove false-positive results, but some of the images in this collection may not be "erotic photographs" but they sure look as such to AI vision algorithms.