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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Will You Look At These Photos!!!!,
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This review is from: On the Couch, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
Photographer Tom Bianchi apparently has the busiest couch on the west coast. He has recorded some of the most beautiful, erotic, and explicit images of mature, handsome and muscular men in these pages. He has been a major player in the world of nude male photography since the early 90's. This book is the first part of his multimedia project, and his first endeavor into digital photography. There are solos, couples, and three-ways displayed in these beautiful color photographs. Bianchi's use of natural light brings out the artistic appeal and beauty of these handsome men. The men in these photos are from all over the world, and they have given of themselves totally in exploring their personal boundaries, exhibitionism, and their masculine beauty. This is a book you can spend hours looking over, and exploring, seeing more and more as you study these photos. It's a nice change of pace from the swimming pools & ocean settings, to come indoors to more intimate surroundings. I think this is Tom Bianchi's finest achievement yet. I certainly look forward to his future volumes. A great collector's item for your library!Joe Hanssen
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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A Sumptuous, Well-Produced Book,
By Martin Cox (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: On the Couch, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
Somewhere, on a high hill in San Francisco, lives a couch whose cushions have cradled some of the most beautiful men in the world. Lucky couch -- and lucky us, because the couch belongs to photographer Tom Bianchi's life partner, B.J.In this gorgeous collection, published in a handsome volume from Bruno Gmünder, the couch plays backdrop for all of the photographs, and somehow, the conceit never becomes repetitive. In fact, upon gazing at some of the beauties who give their all for Bianchi's lens, some may well ask the question: "What couch?" Though some of the models are shown wearing clothes, all of them sooner or later get fully (sometimes startlingly) naked. The result is a collection of bare, uninhibited, raw images of masculine power and eroticism. No intimate bit of the models' bodies is left undiscovered by Bianchi's lens. P>Though is may sound as if these are pornographic photos, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, they possess a sweetly erotic quality that would have been impossible in the hands (and eyes) of a less sensitive artist. Bianchi's vision is such that he makes his work sing with a paean to male sexual energy and to the natural beauty of masculine sensuality in all its forms. Some of the models presented are alone, and some are in pairs, but there is no palpable difference in the heat generated either way. One model says that he meditated to release his inhibitions and increase the sexual energy of his shoot. He apparently was very successful -- his layout is one of the most memorable in the book. The text accompanying the photos gives some wonderful insight into how the shoots came to be, and into each model's background, which is a wonderful departure from the usual silence that accompanies photo essays. One quibble is that it sometimes does venture into stating the obvious -- as when Bianchi says of one model: "I was sufficiently flattered to nearly get into deep trouble with him." This is a sumptuous, well-produced book that lovers of Bianchi's work, and lovers of sensual male photography in general, will want to own.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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On The Couch I: Fahrenheit 450!,
By H. F. Corbin "Foster Corbin" (ATLANTA, GA USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: On the Couch, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
In Ray Bradbury's science fiction thriller, paper burns at 451 degrees fahrenheit. If that is indeed the case, the temperature of this "thriller" has to be at least 450 degrees. I have never seen a hotter book. Mr. Bianchi says in his introduction that he sees "our sexual energy as a vibrant aspect of our inner Godliness. I wanted to create an erotic record that demonstrates this truth." Be that as it may, he certainly has found some gods for this volume. Beautiful men-- most of them mature-- came to visit Mr. Bianchi's brown couch: from Amsterdam, Atlanta, Australia, Siberia, the Midwest and just across the street.Mr. Bianchi says that the men here are not professional models. There is certainly a refreshing spontaneity about them, singly and in twosomes and threesomes, as they frolick partially clothed, nearly naked and buck-naked before Mr. Bianchi's camera. (Has anyone gotten more free advertising in the past 20 years than Calvin Klein, thanks to the publication of books and magazines like this one where the hunks often get in and out of underwear that has become known simply as "Calvins?") These photographs were shot with a digital camera which allowed Bianchi to use natural light, giving these stunning images almost a painterly quality. This volume is Mr. Binachi's finest work thus far and worth every penny it costs.
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