Everyone should try nudism is the overarching message from the contestants at the Mr & Ms Nudist California Pageant. Erwitt is granted rare, unrestricted access to film the nudist contest from beginning to end. The judges are the only ones who are clothed. Our natural bias is to look at naked people through our sexual lens. Good Nudes proves the point that after over 20 minutes of seeing an equal amount of men and women in their proverbial birthday suits, it is no longer sexual. The result is a series of images that force the viewer to confront their own social conditioning around the body: classic Erwitt shot-making gives the viewer plenty of social norms to ponder. Good Nudes stands as a characteristic Erwitt provocation – short, deceptively simple, and lingering in the mind long after it ends. It asks nothing more of its viewer than honest attention, and in doing so, reveals quite a lot about the stories we tell ourselves about bodies, decency, and the clothes we hide behind.