NUDE Magazine Sets New Standard for Fine Art, Says Kim Weston

    CARMEL, Calif., Aug. 1 /EMWNews/ -- The success of Carrie Leigh's

NUDE Magazine has set a new standard for the world of fine art aficionados,

says historian, lecturer and photographer Kim Weston. "Imagine, it has

taken almost fifty years for America to catch up with the rest of the world

in how the female form is viewed as art and not pornography. In Europe and

Japan the female body has been viewed in the way NUDE portrays it for

decades and now finally in America we have a publication that breaks new

ground for artistic freedom. My grandfather, the legendary photographer,

Edward Weston, had spent his last years attempting, but with no success, to

publish his work in a format similar to Carrie Leigh's NUDE." Weston says,

"Ironically, it took decades for Edward's work to be published by the Getty

Museum, and now we have a quarterly fine art magazine that exhibits the

finest fine art photographers."



    Weston continues, "Considering that twenty years ago photographer

Carrie Leigh was titled the First Lady of Playboy, who would have guessed

that both her talent and taste, in art, would be the tremendous force that

is now establishing the way the world sees the female form.



    "I have had the pleasure of both exhibiting in NUDE and working with

Carrie Leigh," adds Weston, "and I can truly say that her talent as a

artist and a curator will be felt for years to come."