Floral backgrounds were sometimes used for backgrounds for female nudes in the 1940s. Most studio photographs in the same period had austere or formal backgrounds. The floral backgrounds for these photographs lends an air of the exotic.

This photograph is circa 1940 and when one pops up in the marketplace it is often associated with WWII vintage uniforms and other personal items from former Navy personnel. The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii by Beth Bailey and David Farber has a photo of service members looking at nude photos in a Hotel Street shop. This part of Honolulu was the brothel district. Women in the brothels were expected to have sex with at least a hundred men a day, if the three minutes allotted for each john can be called sex. The image size is 7.2×11 cm.

A postcard postmarked 1940 with a model and floral background. United States.

A slightly out of focus amateur pinup with the woman posed in front of a floral print bedspread. 1940s, United States, 6×9 cm image size. The best amateur photos of this sort were taken by Eugene von Bruenchenhein, a Wisconsin folk artist, whose prints of shots, some nude, of his wife with floral backgrounds are highly sought after.