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Tom Millea is one of the true masters of nude photography and portraiture.
His work has been featured in many photography magazines and resides at
many prestigious museums including The National Gallery of American Art
Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. For many years Tom worked
exclusively with the Platinum Palladium process and his resulting catalog
of photographs is spectacular. He creates nudes as landscapes and objects
similar to Lucien Clergue and Ruth Bernhard but in his own unique manner.
His macro work is very fetishistic and he excels at it whether it's a face
breast, side, bottom or whatever. There is an obvious difference between
viewing a series of 35mm slides and looking at a single photograph. The
slides provide a progression and are a window into the mind. Tom announced
on May 22 2006 that he quit processing platinum photographs because of
associated health risks and high material costs.
Carrie is probably Tom's best known model and has an ardent cult following.
She is extremely beautiful. In the series of images near the bottom of this
page, Carrie sports beautifully done hair and no make-up. It works. The whole
collection consists of about 1,000 35mm slides and interested parties can
contact papericons @ yahoo.com.
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