The Lens Of Love

June, 1985

"Always I have admired the female body. When I was a boy of 13 or 14 in Trieste, there was a beautiful piazza in the center of town where I would go for walks with friends, and on one side of the piazza there were two statues of naked women. Even so young, I always stared at them when we passed."--Pompeo PosarIn Italy and Yugoslavia, at the time Senior Staff Photographer Pompeo Posar was growing up there, a boy with an artist's eye didn't have many opportunities to view the nude female...

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