Ed Lange was an American

United States

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 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

California

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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

California

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, and a Vice-President of the International Naturist Federation

International Naturist Federation

The International Naturist Federation or Federation Naturiste Internationale is the global umbrella organisation representing official national naturist societies.-Membership:...

. His free love

Free love

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 ideals placed him in the sexual revolution

Sexual revolution

The sexual revolution was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the Western world from the 1960s into the 1980s...

 movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Books

• Family Naturism in Europe: A Nudist Pictorial Classic by Ed Lange
• Family Naturism in America: A Nudist Pictorial Classic by Ed Lange
• Fun in the Sun: Nudist and Naturist Living by Ed Lange (editor)
• "N" Is for Naked (Paperback) by Ed Lange
• 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)
• Nudist Nudes by Ed Lange

Magazines

• "Ankh"
• "Exposure & Design"
• "Nude Lark" (evolved from "Nude Look")
• "Nude Look"
• "Nude Living"
• "Nude Photography"
• "Nudism Today"
• "Nudist Adventure"
• "Nudist Holiday"
• "Sundial"
• "Sundisk" (evolved from "Sundial")
• "Sunrise"
• "The Nudist Idea"
• "Young and Naked"

See also

• The American Association for Nude Recreation
  American Association for Nude Recreation
  The American Association for Nude Recreation is a nudist organization in the United States. Founded in 1931, the organization advocates nudity and nude recreation in appropriate settings. The AANR charters approximately 259 independent U.S. nudist resorts and parks...
  
   (AANR)
• Clothes free organizations
• List of public outdoor clothes free places
• Naturism
  Naturism
  Naturism or nudism is a cultural and political movement practising, advocating and defending social nudity in private and in public. It may also refer to a lifestyle based on personal, family and/or social nudism....
  
  
• Nudism
• Nudity in sport
  Nudity in sport
  Nudity in sport is uncommon but has not been totally absent from ancient or current sporting activities.-History:...
  
  
• Public nudity
  Public nudity
  Public nudity or nude in public refers to nudity not in an entirely private context. It refers to a person appearing nude in a public place or to be seen from a public place. It also includes nudity in a semi-public place, where the general public is free to enter, such as a shopping mall...
  
  
• Skinny dipping
  Skinny dipping
  Nude swimming, colloquially called skinny dipping, is a term used to describe swimming naked.-Etymology:The term skinny dip, first recorded in English in the 1950s, includes the somewhat archaic word skinny, known since 1573, meaning "having to do with skin", as it exposed the naked...
  
  

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