The other day I was reading
Vanity Fair's article about photographer
Walter Iooss. Interesting to read, as well as to look at. Under the Cheryl Tiegs see-through photo Iooss mentioned that back in '77 it was considered very provocative to show nipples in the magazine, however nowadays it would be impossible to publish such photo in a mainstream magazine.
“The infamous picture of
Cheryl Tiegs in the fishnet was taken in Brazil in 1977, and it was probably the most mediocre shot of the trip, but Cheryl was also the biggest name in modeling in 1977. If this would’ve happened to have been another girl, the picture probably wouldn’t have been as meaningful, but to have nipples showing was very provocative in ’77. And, by the way, we can’t show nipples in 2010 in the magazine. So things have sort of backtracked.”
A couple of days later I noticed
Olivia Wilde's photo shoot in June's issue of Russian edition of GQ magazine. Olivia's pictorial, by Peggy Sirota, was originally published in US edition of
GQ magazine in October of 2009 and it was nipple free. In the pictorial from Russian edition one of Olivia's nipples magically appeared on one of the photos.