Some bodies; Irving Penn's nudes.(On Photography)(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)

Readers of Vogue know what they want from a photograph. Leaf through the recent December issue, for instance, and you will come across Mario Testino in spanking form. Italian locations, winter-busting sunlight, and a trunkful of everyday essentials, including low-slung Gucci jeans and a Vera Wang evening dress in "ivory georgette," which sounds like a rising porno star. The lucky few who manage to clamber into the crisscross black swimsuit by Michael Kors are urgently advised to "Go bronze with Neutrogena's Sunless Tanning Foam in Deep." As for the model, what can you say? Loveliness, like namelessness, is part of the deal, and, while nobody would be so cruel as to call ...