Vintage Fetish

Marcel Meys

1886 – 1972


Already in 1914, and during the twenties and thirties, Meys was presenting particular his work with nudes, he used special methods to present his work.
He even went on singing and dancing and spread a lot of energy during his presentations, as if he was a forerunner of modern multumedia presentations. He was a photographic correspondent for the French newspager L 'Illustration also.

I find it a true pity I could not find any bio about him, I had to browse various sites to collect bits and bites to built you a small bio about his life, but other then mentioned above I can not tell you a lot about him.

The first album contains photos from a nude model, bound to a tree. It makes me curious, what was the purpose of this shoot? When you compare it to the second album one might think he was trying to capture nude in an artistic way and adding the rope does give it something special.
But then there is that one photo that is slightly different, the model reveals that typical appearence a female captured in rope can have, she was not posing anymore. At least not to my humble opinion.