Melania Trump’s Nude Fashion Shoot: Photographer Gives His Point of View

What was it like to photograph Melania Trump nude for a fashion shoot in the mid 1990s? Alexandre Alé de Basseville knows all about that. But the photographer was only reminded of that New York City assignment after Trump defended her nude modeling work in a video posted on “X” in promoting her upcoming memoir “Melania” from Skyhorse Publishing. Reached in Paris, de Basseville said he doesn’t know the last time he spoke with the former first lady and that he only learned of the media interest in his photos after people pinged him Wednesday. Having first crossed paths when she was a single model known as Melania Knauss, de Basseville wasn’t sure exactly when in the mid-1990s the photos were taken for Max magazine in a duplex studio with a rooftop at West 26th Street and Sixth Avenue. “They’re saying 1996. That was a long time ago. We’re talking about a time that doesn’t exist anymore,” he said. The New York Post reported the shoot took place in 1995. Working as an “artist photographer,” de Basseville said he was looking for a “charismatic” model to counterbalance the other model Emma Eriksson, who was already booked for the shoot. After someone told him he “had

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