Customer Reviews

Up & Down (Eye Wink)

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The premise is simple: a professional photographer approaches women on the streets and in the cafes of Paris and he asks them to show him their breasts. And, pulling their shirts up & down, they do. The result is electric. The women are beautiful in a natural way, not in some airbrushed slick magazine style. They are daring, exposing themselves in public to a stranger, often with other people nearby. The women are playful, impish, naughty, erotic and heart-achingly real. You will wish that you were there and you will be thankful that these moments were created and captured and shared.

This is a collection of photographs of women being a little daring in their everyday surroundings.

The women are charming and the photographs are well-made.

This book is a bargain. It is superbly printed, and the layout is simple and elegant.

By the way, I don't buy the publisher's contention that these women were happened upon. There was probably a lot of pre-planning and a selection process of some sort long before the pictures were made. However, the pictures do possess a casual and innocent spirit that the photographer should be proud of.

Great book, should have been done a lot sooner. So simple, so well layed out and most of all so charming. All black & white photos, no text to try and turn this book into something it was never suppose to do. He asked, they showed, he shot. At must to have, wish I had thought of this.

This is a charming little book.Unpretentious and earthy. Hats off to Riviere for his ability to make this look so easy. As to the reviewer below, does this person have some sexual "issues" or what. This book is not degrading to women but rather a tribute to their aasets. Women are such amazing animals. so beautiful, how anyone could see women showing off a little as degrading is beyond me.

Color me jaded but I was not blown away with these photos. The idea is a lot of fun (getting women to flash the camera) and we should all be so lucky. Most of his subjest looks like they have done this sort of thing before. Most of the photos look too posed and wooden. Also, they go topless in France at the beach. Heck, look at the French franc note. There's a nice pair and it's legal tender. In short, Franch women don't have the same hang up about boobies that we do. This isn't a huge strech for them.

I thought this book degrades the status of women. I hated seeing them revealing all their feminine assests. uh!