Friends [Hardcover]

Adam Raphael (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Adam Raphael Photography (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970802005
• ISBN-13: 978-0970802002
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,587,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars With Friends Like These...Whew!, July 11, 2002

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Randall Ivey "Randall" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Friends (Hardcover)

This is a very fine collection of erotic photography by Adam Raphael that eschews graphic displays of monstrous genitalia or simulated sex in favor of more subtle aspects of sensuality. Here eyes and lips become the purveyors of eroticism, with all their promises of delights to come.

Raphael's models are handsome, accessible young men - accessible because they could easily be men living next door to you or taking a class with you or shopping in the same mall. They don't intimidate you the way some professional models can. They're real, and you'd like to get to know them better. I believe I prefer Lucas above all. He's got a sweet lack of awareness of his own beauty that makes him all that more alluring.

Raphael's technique is as simple as the men he has chosen to shoot. The style doesn't call attention to itself; thus we are able to enjoy his subjects more thoroughly. I share the complaint of other reviewers, however, that the format of the book doesn't fit the photographs; it should have been a larger edition. That's a minor complaint though.

I look forward to more work by Mr. Raphael.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The power of this work is in the honesty, July 14, 2001

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Friends (Hardcover)

FRIENDS by Adam Raphael is as refreshing a book of new photography as you are likely to enconter. Though Raphael photographs fashion, sports/fitness, children, portraits both single and of couples, here he captures in almost chapter format his male friends. And the friends make excellent "models" not so much because they appear to know how to react to a camera: they success of this portfolio is the apparent warm relationship of honesty between the photographer and subject. As Raphael says in his all too brief Forward, these sessions for each friend lasted from twenty minutes to several days. The quality of the images is superb, the design of the book is clean and crisp, and the impact of re-reading FRIENDS is that we have encountered a photographer about whom we will doubtless hear more!

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stunning photography: simple and elegant, June 10, 2002

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Patrick L Moffett (Atlanta, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Friends (Hardcover)

It is very common to find total nudity. In fact, just about any newstand is filled with it. But tasteful, shirtless photography where the subject is more important than explicit body parts is VERY hard to find. Here is a book which celebrates the young male with handsome, elegant photography whose focus (excuse the pun) is obviously the photographic output rather than anything sexual. This is a photographer who deserves a wider audience. If you are seeking taste and fine photography, you will enjoy "Friends." My only criticism is the size of the prints. Perhaps his next book could be printed in a larger size so that the images have more impact.