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My Favorite Model: 43 Outstanding Contemporary Photographers Portray 44 Gorgeous Models (English and French Edition)

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This is an absolutely stunning book of photography featuring a wide range of models and styles. From simple nudes to full-on fetish, these photographers showcase everything from bondage to outdoor nudity to the finest in latex attire. I have many favorites here, but what I loved is discovering new photographers and models alongside favorites like Justine Joli, who is absolutely smokin' hot here (as well as literally smoking, turning the act of placing a cigarette in one's mouth into an erotic art form).

The Hikari Kesho set of Karia and friend, featuring mistress and sub play while also slightly mocking it is to be commended as well. Emma Delves-Broughton brings us Valeria, who is, I believe, on the cover of her book Kinky Couture, but here she's also in a cute little blue latex waitress outfit on roller skates, transforming herself into some kind of kinky waitress on wheels. Katja Ehrhardt's photos of the striking Ulorin Vex, with a different hair color in each as she models a black latex headdress and gloves, are arresting in their boldness. They're followed by the lightheartedness of Happy Naked Girls photographer Andrew Einhorn showing off Lorina, a pretty but somewhat plain girl who's holding a camera of her own.

This book features some models who look like typical California blonde beach babes worthy of pinup calendars, to others who'd be perfectly at home in the dirtiest of dungeons. The short interviews with each model give a little glimpse into their personalities, and their websites so we can go ogle more photos; I certainly plan to. What's also wonderful about this collection is that one has the sense that the models are equal participants in the shoots. They stare back boldly, sometimes defiantly. They take up space, and truly pose, instead of just staring back at the camera and waiting for the person behind the lens to work their magic. While this book is meant to, and does, showcase some of the best erotic photographers in the world, it also highlights the importance of the models, who are clearly making statements of their own via their clothing (or lack of it), piercings, hair, and body language. This is a book I plan to revisit often.

"Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder." This simple precept is explored to its fullest in Goliath's latest anthology of modern day photographers, each of whom were asked to showcase their most prized nudes of their favorite model. An impressive and diverse range of artists are featured including Richard Murrian, Craig Morey, Sabine Schoenberger, Dave Naz, Christine Kessler, Peter Janhans, Peter Gorman, Mark Frank, Andrew Einhorn, John Donegan, Emma Delves-Broughton, Bob Coulter, and many, many others. It's a electrifying collection of glamour and art nudes from an array of photographers and models working at the apex of their power.

Each model is the focus of an individual chapter of exquisite pictures. And she is allowed to express herself through a simple, Playboyesque list of questions such as "Where do you Live?", "How did you become a Model?", "Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs?", "Democrat or Republican?", etc. As with the photographers, there is a diverse assemblage of women here, all of whom are amazingly beautiful and some that are very well known in their own right, like Liz Ashley, Sativa Verte, and Carlotta Champagne to mention a few.

The production quality of the book itself is magnificent. And it's 320 pages gives it the feel of a massive, erotic textbook of sorts. This is a delightful collection of nudes and insights that all will enjoy.

Ask forty-plus artists for their favorite anything, and you can be sure of a wide range of answers. Looks range from natural (including the model Sativa Verte and Lorina) to the most wildly artificial (such as Erhardt's Ulorin Vex). Some models and their photographers emphasize a look of youth (like Michaela), pinup ideal (Mica), girl-next-door prettiness (Oriana Small), boudoir fantasy (Mary Latexa), or fetish of some kind (like Katya's elaborately knotted bondage scenes). Attire ranges from none at all (Nela, for example) through exotic costuming (like Silke). Lingerie show up in many forms, including one (a ruffled thing on October Noire) that looks like some sea creature glommed onto her hip. Given all these unabashed ways to look at figure, the one blatant bit of airbrushing (on Zamura) created a disconcerting look of anatomical incompleteness.

Each photo in this collection represents a collaboration of model and photographer. Often, the photographer has some vision in mind, in which the model appears more as a prop than as a person in her own right. At the opposite end of the scale (as with Hanna Jane, for one) the model's innate charm takes center stage. I have to admit, the latter appeals to me in ways the former can't, but this book offers so many visions that there's bound to be something for everyone.

-- wiredweird

First things first - it's a hard cover. You'd think I'd have noticed this in the item description - but, alas, I didn't. Second thing: stunning. The women are beautiful, the photography is ~90% perfect. There are some duds - but, in a collection of this scope that is bound to happen. There are few words to describe this adequately. Naked. Women. That'll do.

"Goliath's latest collection of erotic art gathers together exquisite images of 40 different models from 39 of the world's top erotic photographers. As the title suggests, the book features extraordinary muses at their most beautiful. To perceive the models simply as anonymous areas of projection of erotic yearning, or as puppet-like, empty screens, and to censure them for the reactions their appearance can bring about is not only comprehensible, it is also sexist. This book is a tribute to stunning women captured by talented photographers that honours the variety of physical beauty."
(EK Voyeur)

My Favorite Model: 43 Outstanding Photographers Portray 44 Gorgeous Models is an interesting photo anthology from Goliath. With a couple of exceptions, each entry fulfills the inspired idea of having a series of images of the same beautiful woman photographed by the same photographer. Some of these are quite varied and show a real range of looks and some are more specific in appearance. It is interesting to consider how a single photographer might work in a variety of ways with one specific muse. I wonder if each of these muses is really that specific photographer's favorite model, as these appear to be all accomplished people who have shot many women, but it is very nice to look at and interesting to think about. My Favorite Model was well-edited by Miki Bunge and Stephanie Kuhnen and nicely designed by Tanja Oberst. The book closes with a mini-bio of each photographer, however, and lists details of things like what equipment they use, which could be very useful for aspiring visual artists. I wish they had done full interviews with the photographers and not just the models because, if the idea is that the model is the photographer's favorite or one of their favorites, then I'd like to know what the reasons are. The images are all high quality artistic erotica, but the styles are visually very varied in terms of type of scene and colors and general feel, which really holds the reader's interest. The amount of alt cred in this book really shows how much the alt aesthetic is infiltrating all things Hot Luxury Girls: Best of Sugar Posh Beauties.

One of my favoriAll Natural GirlsHistory of German Porn: Gretchen Kraut Collection (Goliath Digest)Erotic Dream GirlsNylon Girls: Erotic Fashion PhotographyBurning Angelte series in the book is the cool damp blue-toned shots of Michaela by Richard Murrien. I also like the rough and tumble look of Zamra by Josef Botello, the gothic fetish cuteness of Valeria by Emma Delves-Broughton, and the dark vintage fetish elegance of Eden by Sabine Schoenberger. The only model to be featured by more than one photographer in the book is altmodel Ulorin Vex (Bizarre , SuicideGirls, Nena Blue by Katja Ehrhardt and by Russell Coleman. Other alt notables include Justine Joli (BlueBlood, StaggStreet) by Nathan Strausse, Dragonlilly (UltimateSurrender) by Octavio Arizala (Vivid-Alt), Kumi (BlueBlood) by Eric Martin, Roxy DeVille (BlueBlood, Vivid-Alt, BurningAngel's HeavyMetalPussyParty) by Sexkicks, Lorraine Sisco (BlueBlood) by Christine Kessler (GodsGirls, BlueBlood), Ivy Red (BlueBlood, Hogtied, MenInPain, WaterBondage, WhippedAss) by Aaron Hawks, original alternative fetish pinup queen Julie Strain by Renard F. Garr, and Bob Coulter (CrazyBabe) shooting Nadia Nitro.
by KittyTwo

This is a Great book there are several Beautiful woman in this book and it is worth the money I would Highly recommend this book to any one who likes and appriciates the beauty of woman this is very good quality photos.