Author(s): Mona Kuhn

Fine Art

In a remote landscape near Bordeaux, Mona Kuhn owns a little house: simple, bare and even without electricity. Kuhn travels here each year to entertain family and friends as they drop by. "Bordeaux Series" contains portraits of these people dear to Kuhn made over the last four years, as well as landscape photographs. Kuhn photographs her subjects in the same room with a red fabric backdrop and a chair, so that the nudity of each sitter is the only indication of his or her idiosyncrasies. A sequel to "Kuhn's Native" (2009), "Bordeaux Series" is a sensual exploration of the contemporary nude.