In the 19th century many nude photographers chose to remain anonymous
so it is extremely difficult to source biographies of their work.
However this site below are a few documentanted photographersw with
short biographies.
I’ve tried to organise it into some chronological order to represent
some sort of timeline.

http://tallulahs.com/
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William (Guglielmo) Plüschow 1852 - 1930
http://www.tallulahs.com/vintit1.html
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Ernst Heinrich Landrock  1878 - 1966
Rudolf Franz Lehnert  1878 - 1948
http://www.tallulahs.com/galerie.html
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Vincenzo Galdi active during 1880 to 1910
http://www.tallulahs.com/vintit4.html
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Louis-Amédée Mante 1826 - 1913
http://www.tallulahs.com/vintit18.html
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Léopold-Emile Reutlinger born 1863
http://www.tallulahs.com/reutlinger.html
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Wilhelm von Gloeden 1856 - 1931
http://www.tallulahs.com/vintit7.html
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Paul Nada born 1856 - 1939
http://www.tallulahs.com/nadar.html
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Gaudenzio (Guglielmo) Marconi 1841-1885
http://www.tallulahs.com/vintit16.html
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Stanislaus Julian Walery born during 1860’s - 1955
http://www.tallulahs.com/classicals.html
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Imogen Cunningham 1883 - 1976
http://www.westongallery.com/artists/i_cunningham/imogen_cunningham.html
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Helmut Newton 1920
http://www.ocaiw.com/newton.htm
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Bettina Rheims 1952
http://www.the-artists.org/eyestorm/bettinarheims.cfm


BOOKS
This book “Naked Women: the Female Nude in Photography from 1850 to
the Present Day” could be a useful source of info
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560253363/ref=ase_unblinkingeye/102-9434800-8091335
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Erotique: Masterpieces of Erotic Photography
“profiles the most fascinating and significant work in the
controversial field of erotic photography”

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560251689/allphotographycoA/102-9434800-8091335
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Contempoary books
http://www.all-photography.com/cn_bookstore/cn_bookstore.html
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OTHER RESOURCES

This directory give references to contemporary nude photographers
http://www.michelle7.com/directories/directories.htm
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Fine Art Nudes
http://groups.msn.com/TorontoOntarioPhotographers/figurestudy.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=175&LastModified=4675297261087421654&pgmarket=en-ca
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Nudes Masked
http://www.nudesmasked.com/looking.htm
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Google Directory (contemporary)
http://directory.google.com/Top/Adult/Arts/Photography/Galleries/
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Yahoo’s nude masters
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=nude&y=n&e=519&f=0%3A2766678%3A2718086%3A1%3A911832%3A7123%3A7332%3A519&r=Arts%02Visual+Arts%02Photography%02Photographers%02Masters
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http://www.bigkugels.com/content/FemaleNudes.html
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Here is a timeline for photography in general (not nude):
http://www.photo.net/history/timeline
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General photography directories
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Photography/Resources/Directories/

Search Strategy:
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=vintage+master+nude+photographers
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http://www.google.com/search?q=Imogen+Cunningham&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&start=0&sa=N
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Helmut+Newton+gallery
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http://www.teoma.com/search.asp?t=history+famous+nude+photographers&p=0&f=0&i=0&s=0&y=0&qcat=1&l=&qid=571C403C06F00347965396042FF2185A

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