Saturday, June 30, 2012



Now that this blog is no longer needed to promote Carrie Leigh's NUDE Magazine, Carrie suggested to me that I take the blog back... back in the beginnings of the magazine I had been using the blog so much to promote the magazine that I suggested it be used as the official Magazine Blog. So now it has come around full circle.

There are those subscribed to this that will be uninterested in my work and I am sure my followers will drop... It happens.

To those who stay around. I will try to keep it interesting. New and noteworthy, I will be appearing at The San Diego Comic-Con July 11-15, with most of my family there doing signings. I may post Comic Con updates from the show for any who may be interested in the insanity that is a comic con. The image posted above is a quick red pencil drawing I did of my friend Nikki. My go to model. More to come!

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Carrie Leigh’s NUDE Permanently Preserved by the National Library of Australia



We have received word that all issues of Carrie Leigh’s NUDE magazine from 2007-2011 have become a permanent holding of Trove, the National Library of Australia.

Similar to the Smithsonian and other national libraries, the Trove serves as the preeminent repository of information for Australia, including rare, valuable, and significant works. As such, the national library is a cousin to the world’s national galleries, endowing immortality on the works collected.

The following artists, models, celebrities, and writers are featured in these issues:

Premiere Issue Fall 2007 

Sydney Brown
Carrie Leigh
Kim Weston
Calvato
Joel Adams
Nick Ash
Dave Rudin
Perry Gallagher
Jim Ladd
Richard Frischer
Antoine de Villers
Joris Van Dahle
Stan Malinowki
Norbert Guthier

Winter 2008 

Olga Safonoff
Carrie Leigh
Guenter Knop
Rene Jacobs
Patricio Suarez
Leonard Nimoy
Joel Adams
Perry Gallagher
Francis Keating
Anthony Guerra
Elena Vasilieva
Richard Frischer
Nick Ash
Werner Branz
Carrie Leigh

Spring 2008 

Roxanne Ramirez
Carrie Leigh
Perry Gallagher
Lucien Clergue
Michael Helms
Antoine De Villers
Carrie Leigh
Kim Weston
Joel Adams
Wolf
Craig Srebnik
Pascal Renoux
Francois Benveniste
Yvan Teule
Art Zilo
Norbert Buthier
Vincent Wolff

Summer 2008 

Chanon Finley
Carrie Leigh
Guenter Knop
Mark Sadan
John Tisbury
Theodore Mann
Joel Adams
Sascha Huttenhain
Lee Jones
Sylvie Blum
Kim Weston
Carrie Leigh
Bryon Paul McCartney
P. Miller
E. E. McCollum
Jeff Graves
AJ Carrington
Anthony Gordon
Mike Cary
Ginnie Lau
Fanny Cheuk

Fall 2008 

Alicia Marie Clark
Carrie Leigh
Dan West
Francois Benveniste
Elena Vasilieva
Danny Luna
Robert Wuhl
Madeleine Vite
Joel Adams
Wolf
Nick Ash
Stuart Levine
Eric Wallis
Francis Keating
Chip Willis
Guenter Knop
Pablo Sanchez

Winter 2009 

Anastasia Esper
Carrie Leigh
Gigi Stoll
A J Khan
Mel Ramos
Joris Van Daele
Isobella Jade
Marc Hoppe
Joel Adams
Don Sanders
Sylvie Blum
Pauline Adair
Christophe Vermare
Ruby Dee
Norbert Gutheir
Kim Weston
Brooke LaBrie

Spring 2009
Sydney Brown
Carrie Leigh
Darren Phillips
Gabriele Rigon
Dan West
Michael Siu
Sharon Waxman
David Le Beck
Joel Adams
Tom Lane
Chip Willis
Antoine de Villiers
Deborah Anderson
Franchesco
Gary Mitchell
Lloyd Rosen
Guenter Knop
Frances Willey

Summer 2009 

Ria Alexander
Carrie Leigh
Christophe Vermare
Gary Breckheimer
Kim Weston
Joel Adams
Stuart Levine
Eric Wallis
Ralph Gibson
Michael Siu
Danny Luna
Carlotta Champagne
A J Khan
John Tisbury
Dale Merrill
Matthew Scherfenberg
Ming-Shiun Wu
Nathan Appel
Glen Larsen
Jan Murphy

Fall 2009 

Anniversary Issue
 Carrie Leigh
Elena Vasilieva
Chris Henry
Perry Gallagher
Minon
John Tisbury
Mikhail Palinchak
Henry Asencio
Andre J
Richard Tallent
Joel Adams
Gary Mitchell
Veronika Kotlajic
Vernon Trent
Igor Vasiliadis
Guenter Knop

Winter 2010 

St Merrique
Carrie Leigh
Dr. Carla Johnson
Christophe Vermare
Waldermar Zagorski
Peter Le Grand
Nad Iksodas
Joel Adams
Wendy Levin
Stuart Levine
Scott French
Igor Vasiliadis
Michael Barnes
Stephen Haynes
Xerxes
Dominique Lacour aka Crazydoc
A J Khan
Datura Noir
Kim Weston
Dave Levingston

Spring 2010 

Austin Dawn
Carrie Leigh
Francois Benveniste
Jan Murphy
Thomas Doering
Mitsuo Suzuki
Sarah Ellis
Antoine de Villiers
Markus Richter
Joel Adams
David Le Beck
Gary Mitchell
Dr. Carla Johnson
Carrie Leigh
Gavin O’Neill
Gabriele Rigon
Nad Iksodas

Summer/Fall 2010 

Lesya Yegorova
Carrie Leigh
Claire Jean
Susan Eckert
Joel Adams
Nad Iksodas
Lela Rae
Eric Wallis
L. Anne Enke
Dr. Carla Johnson
Perry Gallagher
Thorsten Jankowski
Candace Nirvana
Vitaly Vasilieva
Elena Vasilieva
John Tisbury
Kevin Marple
Olaf Ernst
Michael Ian Goulding
Dario Infini
JW Purdy
Marcello Pozzetti
AlexB

Thursday, April 26, 2012

IT HAS BEEN A GREAT RUN BUT ALL THINGS MUST PASS

Photographer:  Carrie Leigh



With a saddened heart I have to announce the closure of NUDE magazine as a quarterly publication.

More at our Publisher's Page

Monday, August 22, 2011

NUDE Artists on Exhibit





Artwork by Vitaliy & Elena Vasilieva






Artists featured in Carrie Leigh's NUDE
Vitaliy & Elena Vasilieva
are currently exhibiting at the
M17 Contemporary Art Center
in the Ukraine.

The Exhibit is titled "No Art."


Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The Next Generation of NUDE



Four years ago Borders Books in Hollywood held a Launch Party for Carrie Leigh's NUDE magazine. This event put us on the map. As we bid a fond farewell to the American bookstore institution, we want readers to know we have been in the process of reinventing NUDE.

Even American institutions must change with the times or die; unfortunately, Borders did not change.  Sadly, Borders is liquidating all their stores. Barnes & Noble has already closed over 1,000 stores in the past few years but remains in business due to the NOOK. Financial statements from the first quarter of 2011 reflect 75 percent of revenue came from NOOK sales.







As we have spent the past four years creating a market for our publication, we now find the existing delivery system, i.e., the major bookstore chains, is quickly becoming extinct. As we mentioned a couple months ago, our present distribution contract will expire this month. Look for more on this in another post.

We have taken some time to consider all options and to weigh where the future of NUDE should take us. Stay tuned. A new generation of NUDE is in the works and will include a choice of options for our subscribers.

View Carrie Leigh's NUDE here

View NUDE art blog here

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

A Little American Freedom

Photograph by Carrie Leigh



Enough is enough.

From now on, when you click on a copyrighted picture on this blog, you will be taken on a visit to the NUDE website.  No more free downloads.  It came to our attention yesterday that copyrighted images from this blog has ended up on pay sites. 

"I don't mind sharing my art," Carrie said.  "I have not previously protected it from downloads as I don't mind someone showing it with proper credit.  But when my art is stolen and sold on Internet pay sites without my consent, it hurts everything I have worked for.  It hurts me and my models when this happens."

As the glut of pirated music and images drives legitimate sources out of business, it concerns us to learn where images go that are posted on not-for-profit blogs.  Our stat counters show every download, and sometimes a visitor comes and downloads hundreds of images.  For what purpose?  Some create electronic portfolios for their own use, but now we have proof some of the downloads are pirated images to be used for commercial purposes without even a credit to the artist or artists.

The website of the Recording Industry of America says, "Copyright law protects the value of creative work. When you make unauthorized copies of someone’s creative work, you are taking something of value from the owner without his or her permission."  Not only is this a clear breach of ethics;  it violates U.S. law.  Criminal penalties can run up to five years in prison and/or $250,000 in fines, even if you didn’t don't download music and images for monetary or financial or commercial gain.

According to the site:  

Online music theft is "commonly known as piracy, but that’s too benign of a term to adequately describe the toll that music theft takes on the enormous cast of industry players working behind the scenes to bring music to your ears. That cast includes songwriters, recording artists, audio engineers, computer technicians, talent scouts and marketing specialists, producers, publishers and countless others.

"While downloading one song may not feel that serious of a crime, the accumulative impact of millions of songs downloaded illegally – and without any compensation to all the people who helped to create that song and bring it to fans – is devastating. One credible study by the Institute for Policy Innovation pegs the ANNUAL harm at $12.5 billion dollars in losses to the U.S. economy as well as more than 70,000 lost jobs and $2 billion in lost wages to American workers."

The site shares legal precedent regarding the piracy of copyrighted images online.  In Playboy Enterprises v. Russ Hardenburgh, Inc., 982 F. Supp. 503 (N.D. Ohio 1997), it was decided that:

"Distributing unlawful copies of a copyrighted work violates the copyright owner’s distribution right and, as a result, constitutes copyright infringement. . . . . [Unlawful distribution occurs where] [f]iles of [copyrighted] information are stored in the central system, and subscribers may either ‘download’ information into their[computers] or ‘upload’ information from their home units into the central files . . . ."

So there is no need to question whether online theft of copyrighted images is indeed art theft.  It is, and in the United States it is a felony to steal art.  Within hours of notifying an Arizona-based pay site that they were in violation of U.S. copyright law, the site removed artwork pirated from Carrie Leigh that initially appeared in print in Carrie Leigh's NUDE magazine and was later published on the official blog.

I don't mind visitor downloads of work for personal use.  But it is another story with the pay site pirates who take our work for commercial purposes and make money on it without even crediting the photographer.  There are also those who pass off others' work as their own work.  Piracy is art theft, and it is unethical and illegal and hurtful to all of us, each and every artist, when it occurs.

I realize some will shrug and say, "Then don't post your work online."  That's like saying, "If you don't want to be hit by a drunk driver, stay at home and don't go out on the highway."  This is, after all, the Information Superhighway.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Pippa NUDE? She's not the first...

"Buckingham Palace Nude" by Jan Murphy


The Duchess of Cambridge's family should not have upset the Queen with their embarrassing photographs of James and Pippa.  These images of the Royal relatives just this week appeared on the Internet in the United States in various states of undress.

Carrie Leigh’s NUDE magazine exposed the Royal Family long before the Royals exposed themselves.  The Queen was home and didn't say a word.  The nude was photographed in front of Buckingham Palace with the police in the background watching.

Why is everyone up in arms now?

The Spring 2010 issue of Carrie Leigh's NUDE magazine features an exhibit of female nudes shot on Royal Ground by London photographer Jan Murphy as a statement of artistic freedom. Ms. Murphy shows her nude model wearing white gloves for presentation to the Queen, who was inside the Palace at the time as the flag is flying.

According to Carrie Leigh,  "I wish I had the opportunity to do what Jan Murphy did. It makes quite a statement to shoot nudes with a world landmark like Buckingham Palace as a backdrop."

In conjunction with Carrie Leigh's NUDE, Murphy and her nude models elected to shoot at
some of London's historic sites, including Buckingham Palace as the Royal Flag flew, the Tate Museum of Art, and the GLA building.

Long before all this, Queen Victoria had a passion for nude art that is now the subject of Victoria & Albert: Art & Love, an exhibit at The Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace that opened March 19.

The Spring 2010 issue of Carrie Leigh's NUDE is available for sale here.  Order your Royal Nudes today!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

A Mother's Day Message from Carrie Leigh

Carrie Leigh as a model


Everyone knows that everything changes in life.

Once I was a model who had the opportunity to work with some great photographers. Now I am a photographer who has the opportunity to work with great models.  When I was a model I loved to be published in print;  now I am a print publisher.  Once I was single; now I am married with children.

My history reflects change, but one thing that has never changed is that I have one and only one mother.
The common denominator among everyone in the world is that we all have a mother.  Times change, and people change, but today is the day to spend time with your mother or, if you can't be with her, reflect on what she means to you.

Friday, April 15, 2011

An Announcement from Carrie Leigh

Our cover model for the Summer/Fall 2010 issue of Carrie Leigh's NUDE
Photographed by Carrie Leigh


Times are changing for those who love print and collect.

As everyone knows, the publishing and book store world is suffering extremely hard times and only the strong will survive.  Our solution was to terminate our existing distribution contract and to sign with a larger, more financially secure company.

In the process of our change we discovered, in our distributor's warehouse, small numbers of past issues of Carrie Leigh's NUDE.  As these are only available on e-bay and Amazon for extremely high prices by those looking to make a large profit on the collectable factor, we have decided to sell these issues in our store.  We have priced them according to quantity available.  All are in mint condition and still shrink wrapped.

And best news of all!  We have added a National and International Shopping Cart to help you save on the shipping!

Check it out

Friday, April 1, 2011

Happy Birthday, Gary!



Today is my husband Gary's birthday, and I would like to recognize the wonderful things he has done in this time for civil rights, the fine art world, and his family. As someone who enjoys working behind the scenes, he seldom steps forward to allow us to recognize his achievements. On this special day, I want to acknowledge Gary as a great humanitarian who has tirelessly served others.

Happy Birthday, Gary, I love you and appreciate everything you have done and everything you do so very much.

Carrie