These are some of the photographs by the world's greatest photographers you will see in a new exhibition at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.
But Peter Adams is upset about the photographs you won't see.
The Katoomba photographer feels the "teeth have been removed from" the exhibition after the cultural centre chose not to hang several photographs featuring nudity.
The exhibition, Peter Adams: A Few of the Legends, features Adams' portraits of some of the 20th century's greatest photographers alongside their own work. None of photographs in question are Mr Adams' portraits and the exhibition still includes several nudes by the featured photographers.
One of the rejected images is a news photograph of a young boy urinating against the fence of the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the AFL grand final, originally published in The Age newspaper.
Another features a woman's bare bottom leaning out of a Parisian window.
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre director Paul Brinkman said the selection process for the exhibition was thorough and works weren't ruled out for "prudish" reasons.
He said the image of the young boy at the MCG shows how society's understanding of consent and the rights of children has changed since it was originally published.
He said the situation would be different if the exhibition was about the male gaze and nudity, or the rights of children, but it is about celebrating the Katoomba photographer's achievement.
"If the original curatorial intention of the exhibition was about those topics and those photos were integral to telling that story, those photos would be in there... It certainly isn't a prudish reason behind those works being taken out. It is purely based on the actual concept of what we're trying to say in the exhibition," he said.
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"The intention of this exhibition is to celebrate the work of Peter Adams - the 30 plus years of photographic experiences he's had across the world, meeting amazing photographers and taking some quite stunning portraits capturing those people."
Mr Adams can understand the cultural centre's stance - and overall he is very happy with the presentation of the exhibition - but he said he has a "strong dislike for all forms of censorship".
"I understand what Paul's saying but I deplore the fact it's happened. I have an absolute dislike of censorship... I have a greater respect for people's personal ability to walk away [from something they are offended by]," he said.
The 77-year-old said society has a double standard when it comes to violence and nudity.
"It seems a total hypocrisy that images of violence, execution and assassination are OK for display, while bottoms are not," he said.
"I had hoped that the images and the photographers' comments [accompanying them] might cause people to rethink what they are looking at... I realise parts of the collection are controversial, but I was looking forward to some interesting discussions, both for and against."
Peter Adams: A Few of the Legends is at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba until January 17.