Ed Lange

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Ed Lange (1920 - 1995) was an American author of several classic nudist pictorial books. He was very active in the Western Sunbathing Association and in the first stirrings of the Free Beach movement in the 1960s in California.

He was a nudist photographer of great fame, and a publisher of many nudist pamphlets and magazines showing the nudist lifetyle to the general public. As well as founding Elysium Inc., Publishers, he was the founder and president of the Elysium Institute in Topanga Canyon, California, and a Vice-President of the International Naturist Federation. His free love ideals placed him in the sexual revolution movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Lange was a controversial figure in American nudism; the controversy was largely centred around assertions that some of his nudist publications, particularly Nudist Moppets, were child pornography. Nikki Craft has been one of his most prominent critics on this issue. Lange and Craft both appeared together on Jenny Jones (Aired on December 18, 1992) where the topic was discussed. [1]

Contents

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[edit] Books

  • Nudist Magazines of the 50s & 60s (The Nudist Nostalgia Series, Book 1) by Ed Lange, Stan Sohler. ISBN 1-55599-046-0 (pbk.: bk. 1)
  • Nudist Magazines of the 50s & 60s (The Nudist Nostalgia Series, Book 2) by Ed Lange, Stan Sohler. ISBN 1-55599-048-7 (pbk.: bk. 2)
  • Nudist Magazines of the 50s & 60s (The Nudist Nostalgia Series, Book 3) by Ed Lange, Stan Sohler. ISBN 1-55599-051-7 (pbk.: bk. 3)
  • Nudist Magazines of the 50s & 60s (The Nudist Nostalgia Series, Book 4) by Ed Lange, Stan Sohler. ISBN 1-55599-054-1 (pbk.: bk. 4)
  • "N" Is for Naked (Paperback) by Ed Lange
  • Fun in the Sun: Nudist and Naturist Living by Ed Lange (editor)
  • Family Naturism in Europe: A Nudist Pictorial Classic by Ed Lange
  • Family Naturism in America: A Nudist Pictorial Classic by Ed Lange
  • Nudist Nudes by Ed Lange

[edit] Magazines

  • Sundisk , evolved from Sundial
  • Ankh
  • Nudist Moppets
  • Young and Naked

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