“I like to photograph naked women. The infinite variety of the human body is fascinating: it is amazing and magic to see how different women are.”—
 
Ten years after the exhibition The Air Is on Fire, which presented David Lynch’s photographic and painting work, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain brought together in this book more than 100 black-and-white and color images of female nudes by the artist. These erotically charged photographs are close to abstraction, offering kaleidoscopic visions of the subject. They attest to Lynch’s fascination with the infinite variety of the human body, while being in line with his cinematographic work.
 
"Lynch has dabbled in painting and sculpture since he was a kid, but only picked up photography after he made Eraserhead. His approach to the women in Nudes seems to be similar to how he photographs factories in the documentary Lynch (One), searching for unique ways to use darkness to transform his subjects’ shape."
― Vice