Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
Description
A talk for the Brains at the Bevy 2022-23 talks programme, taking place at the Bevendean Community Pub in Moulsecoomb, Brighton.
The nude body and its visual depiction has always attracted attention and generated heated debate. What and who should be seen and shown, by whom and where, form the basis of the social and moral codes that shape behaviour and belief. This talk outlines nudist campaigns for bodily visibility in Britain, from the formation of the movement in the 1920s through to the legal battles of its photographers against obscenity law in the 1950s and 1960s. What can we learn from these campaigns? What are their parallels today?