Jean-paul goude jungle fever 1982

French photographer and illustrator Jean-Paul Goude was called upon by Paper magazine to “break the Internet” with his nude photos of Kim Kardashian.

But it appears that Goude has also prompted the Internet to break out its history books, tracing his photo of Kardashian's naked back to not only a 1976 photo he took of Carolina Beaumont called "The Champagne Incident" but also historical imagery steeped in racism.

In both the Beaumont and Kardashian photos, each is holding a champagne bottle with a glass resting on their upturned backsides as the champagne shoots up in an arc from the bottle to the glass.

Goude rose to prominence as a photographer and illustrator for Esquire in the 1960s.

But it was during the heydey of the disco era of the 1970s that he solidified his style: cartoonish, surreal and often racially problematic images of women's bodies.

His photography book “Jungle Feve