Patrons are invited to get in touch with their senses, to smell the grass, enjoy the fresh air, count the clouds. There are no loudspeakers, televisions or radios. Nestled below a hill at the end of a tree-lined back road, Elysium is a rustic Shangri-La where visitors are encouraged to shed their problems along with their attire.Ī sign on a towel rack beside the steam bath reads, “Leave Your Hang-ups Here.” He is among the movement’s elder statesmen, having spent four decades trying to demystify the nudist way of life.įor the past 26 years, his focus, and the source of his pride, has been Elysium Fields. Sitting on a veranda overlooking his domain, wrapped in a towel as a concession to the weather, Lange resembles a professor who has just stepped out of the shower. “What we were hoping for and fighting for in the ‘60s, people are more comfortable doing now,” said Ed Lange, Elysium’s 72-year-old founder and a former Life magazine photographer. Women who wouldn’t be caught in a singles bar swear by the secluded, eight-acre compound as a place to meet quality men. Parents take their kids there to explain the birds and bees. The camp, where sex is prohibited, has become a popular venue for self-awareness experts spreading the New Age gospel. A product of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, it has survived prudish neighbors, prayer vigils outside its gates, and, until recently, persistent efforts by Los Angeles County officials to close it down.Īlthough a few of the nation’s 100 or so nudist camps have fallen on bad times, Elysium Fields-like nude recreation generally-thrives. With the passage of time, the Elysium Fields nudist camp in Topanga Canyon is more quaint than risque. Some play tennis in nothing but sneakers. Waitresses and teachers mingle with affluent couples and aging hipsters, their tanned bodies glistening in the sun. Due to the reproducible nature of this item, this photograph cannot be returned.Please PayPal payment within 48 hours of auctions close.On warm weekends, its grassy, eucalyptus-scented grounds are covered with naked men and women. Ownership of the photograph does not imply that the owner has printing rights to the photo. These auctions are for the photographs themselves. If you have any serious concerns, please email me. They may have marring, a light fold, scuffs or dog-ears due to normal book and magazine production handling. All of them are vintage '50s, '60s original photographic prints, printed on silver-geatin RC or polyester black and white photographic paper. May be stamped "Ed Lange" or "Erwin Lang" on the back. Nudist photographic collectors all over the world have praised my eBay offerings.Photo may have red or black grease-pencil crop marks, may have old adhesive (inert) on the back or may be backed with paper. (These are not scanned printer-generated copies).
My auctions are known for their value and authenticity. You will not see any other authentic prints of any of these photos on the market. It has not been spotted and shows considerable lint shadows from the negative.I have several years of successful experience selling these fine original vintage nudist photographs on eBay. It was alway's called the "Creation shot" because it reminded everyone of the Sistine Chapel God & Adam painting. He shot many rolls of film and this was the finest of the bunch. Diane and her husband Joe are pictured inside a swimming pool in Los Angeles, early 1960s, with a huge orange parachute as a prop. The magnetism between the model and photographer is apparent in every print.Photo paper size: 8 x 10 inches on RC paper. Ed photographed Diane Webber like no one else. There have been other nudist photographers and producers but none as fresh and spontaneous as Ed Lange. It was printed in the 1990s for a book catalog cover. Original Diane Webber with Joe Webber in their famous swimming pool "Creation" shot, by Ed Lange This is a rare and very popular picture taken by Ed Lange for his groundbreaking nudist magazines of the 1950s and 1960s.
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