Ivy League nude posture photos
The Ivy League nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at
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References
- ^ New York Times. January 21, 1995. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
The Smithsonian Institution has cut off all public access to a collection of nude photographs taken of generations of college students, some of whom went on to become leaders in American culture and government. The pictures at first were taken to study posture. Later they were made by a researcher examining what he believed to be a relationship between body shape and intelligence.
- ^ New York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
Shocking, because what he found was an enormous cache of nude photographs, thousands and thousands of photographs of young men in front, side and rear poses. Disturbing, because on closer inspection the photos looked like the record of a bizarre body-piercing ritual: sticking out from the spine of each and every body was a row of sharp metal pins.
- New York Times. January 29, 1995. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
The Smithsonian Institution has destroyed nude photographs taken decades ago of Yale University students who were unaware the pictures were to be used in the pursuit of a form of science. The science has since been discredited.
External links
- Dick Cavett on his experience
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