Ed Lange

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.

Further reading

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 (AANR)
• Clothes free organizations
• List of public outdoor clothes free places
• Naturism
• Nudism
• Nudity in sport
• Public nudity
• Skinny dipping