BERKO [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

B. Pedersen (Author), Ferenc Berko (Author), B. Martin Pedersen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1999

Sensual and alluring images of the female form by a photographer whose work has played a major role in advancing the camera as an art medium.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 104 pages
• Publisher: Graphis Press; illustrated edition edition (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888001445
• ISBN-13: 978-1888001440
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,705,863 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars berko is.... well..., May 3, 2000

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kelvin pinney - See all my reviews

This review is from: BERKO (Hardcover)

Berko's photographs are sort of that 40ish style of nudes. Kind of a cross between edward weston and hollywood pin-up but not quite believable as either one. While they are not bad as nude studies, they don't quite hit the mark; i found myself wondering when i would get to the good ones....

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The ART of Photography, December 4, 2000

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"jbelkin" (Burbank CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BERKO (Hardcover)

It's difficult to fathom how this collection of Ferenc Berko's collection would rate less than an 4-star rating - it really should be a 4.5 stars - it only loses a star because of its brevity and its minimal accompanying text - which is simply adequate but Berko's talent and compositions are simply without question. A collection of important and relevant photographers of the early 20th century books would simply be incomplete without this book.

Of course, not everyone appreciates a simple, clean stylized composition of beautiful women (who have not been injected with silicon) of the early part of the 20th century. To diminish Berko's photographs and talent because one prefers photographs of porn stars in color - frankly, that is just laughable! Of course, there are hundreds of books that will satisfy your minimal requirements of the female form nude - but don't diminish Berko merely because you prefer colorized and from the school of "Hustler."

Amazon has graciously and plainly described the book's content and well as provided you with a cover photo so, this is clearly not for people whose frame of reference amounts to magazines from a truckstop.

If you are interested in photography as an art form ... of beautiful women captured in a stylized but very natural form - a series of photographs that have stood the test of time. Berko's photographs are just as telling and relevant today - if one is looking beyond remedial erotica - this book belongs in your collection!

JB