Erotic photographs were shot in a variety of locations in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. The most common settings for 1950s stripset nudes were a hotel or motel room, outdoors, and a studio. The studio in 1950s photographs doesn’t call attention to itself. There are not typical studio props or backgrounds which are found in earlier studio photographs. Studio props include columns, corrugated backgrounds, drapery, and so forth which are most common in earlier studio photographs and are used to enhance lighting effects.

I always associate studio nudes like this with those taken in the 1930s and 1940s but I think this model’s photos were taken in the 1950s. What caught my eye when these photos became available was the model’s relaxed poses and the lighting.