The fabled ivy league nude posture photos have been written about but seldom seen… until recently The photo of actor bill hinnant recently sold for $1,600. Ivy league schools used to require nude photos of students, and the real reason for the nude photos may surprise you. Posture photographs have become rather notorious over the years Their fame results at least partially from ron rosenbaum’s article, “great ivy league nude posture photo scandal” that appeared in the new york times magazine a few years ago Even without such publicity, the idea of nude photographs taken of young men and women attending the […]
It was not until a new york times magazine article (“ the great ivy league nude posture photo scandal”), by yale graduate ron rosenbaum ’68, appeared in 1995 that i learned that the photos of yale’s prominent graduates and future celebrities, professionals, business leaders and politicians—and me—were hidden away in files to be. In 1951, life magazine dedicated a cover story to sheldon’s work, and the tobacco industry used his ivy league nudes to study the relationship between smoking and masculinity. The photo of actor james franciscus recently sold for $1,225. Ivy league and seven sisters schools herded freshmen into gyms, and led them into a room where each student was required to disrobe and have her picture taken Perhaps another reason why the students did not complain about enduring the nude posture photos is that these were only one of many unpleasant experiences freshmen had to. For decades, thousands of students at harvard and other prestigious schools took nude “posture’’ photos
The ivy league nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at harvard, yale, princeton, upenn (which are members of the ivy league) and seven sisters colleges (as well as swarthmore), ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population The fabled ivy league nude posture photos have been written about but seldom seen Incoming college students were photographed fully nude to gauge posture, detect scoliosis, and address other correctable body issues… all while emotionally scarring the participants Talk show host dick cavett joked Sheldon collected the photos of thousands of male and female freshmen And under the guise of posture remediation, and with the full complicity of the ivy league, tracked our performance and measured it against his standards.
People are just finding out elite colleges took nude photos of all incoming freshman including some world leaders hardly the most fitting introduction to ivy league college life, having to pose naked for 'science' Much more can be read about the posture programs and the quest for the lost nude photos in the book the great ivy league nude posture scandal, by ron rosenbaum. Ivy league nude posture photos jfinfijehwjid jul 4, 2023 prev 1 2 3 4 next posts attachments Sturdy, shapely, hot feature that made visiting women’s colleges all the more scenic for cisgender ivy league and “little ivy” men, especially in the early twentieth century The new york times magazine published the great ivy league nude posture photo scandal in january of 1995 Still available online, it is a fascinating tale that took reporter ron rosenbaum on a wild hunt through multiple archives in a quest for long lost photographs.
Entering freshmen at many ivy league and seven sisters schools had to strip during freshman registration for “posture” photographs in the nude The man behind the posture project was columbia university professor w.h Sheldon, who believed that body shape could predict intelligence and personality traits
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