Erotic photography is a style of
art photography of an
erotic and even a sexually suggestive or
sexually provocative nature. Erotic photography is generally a
composed image of a subject in a still position. Though the subjects of erotic photography are usually completely or mostly
unclothed, that is not a requirement. Erotic photography should be distinguished from
nude photography, which contains nude subjects not necessarily in an erotic situation, and
pornographic photography, which is of a sexually explicit nature. Pornographic photography generally does not claim any artistic or aesthetic merit.