Stone Nudes

Most of us recognize the fusion of the iconic and the naturalistic, but even connoisseurs are sometimes challenged to peg what a Stone Nude actually is. The images themselves are silent in this regard. Since the first January photo in the first Stone Nude calendar was printed over a decade ago, and now one hundred and forty something Stone Nudes later, no trace of photographer Dean Fidelman has ever appeared on the face of the climber, the granite buttress, the earth, tree, river, or cloud.