Gods of Football [Hardcover]

Pedro Virgil (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2009

Shows the most handsome and sexiest Australian football stars at the beach, on the open sea and under the shower.

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Pedro virgil's highly designed photographs depict football stars with bodies trained to perfection. in Gods of Sport he aesthetically "soiled" his models and placed them in magically dark surroundings; this time we see these superstars in naturally bright ambiences. His models are tight with tension, his photos are well thought thru, composed, and styled - nothing is left to chance. virgil has only one single aim: erotic tension. even though his models never drop the last piece of cloth, one keeps believing with the next turn of the page to see it all. tension to the last page.

About the Author

the australian photographer Pedro Virgil causes quite a stir with his works for magazines like Bent or dna and shots for rolex and diesel. He invests a lot of time in every picture; the result is professional high gloss photography of the finest.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh (October 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3867870403
• ISBN-13: 978-3867870405
• Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 10.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #893,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I could have done better., June 15, 2011

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This review is from: Gods of Football (Hardcover)

I could have done a better job with this book and I'm not even a professional photographer. It's a great book simply because it's hardcover with large, full color photos of beautiful men, but the photographer is basically talentless. Some of the photos were blurry, some were off-center, and the rest just had poor composition. Some of the props and outfits were ridiculous and didn't even make sense when put in the context of rugby. I mean, come on, cowboys? Seriously? And cowboys without horses at that!

The photographer is a joke. This book is exactly what you would expect from a photographer who just wants to shoot oiled up guys and junk lumps. No vision, no artistry. Just fail. It's like a glorified underwear shoot minus the well-paid marketers. Not worth $69 bucks, that's for sure.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Football in the Limelight, December 21, 2010

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This review is from: Gods of Football (Hardcover)

Not that football is just a seasonal sport, but as soon as Christmas passes all eyes are on the various Bowl games and Football is the focus. Pedro Virgil visits the stadiums at night and in the day and captures the almost Romanesque or Greek feeling of sports. Noted for his prowess in fashion and commercial photography, Australian photographer Virgil here keeps his eye on football and the men who play it.

The models selected for this monographer are particularly fine - well built sportsmen with the emphasis on the body as an anatomic wonder. Rarely are these models out of uniform - though at many times they are in only portions of uniform, or even in the showers post-practice or post-game. His most artistic works are those where the players are but a segment of the overall size of the stadium for the game - whether kneeling, or relaxing or just letting the excitement of the game play first. His color is saturated and bold and the reproduction in this impressive volume is true and exact. Many photographic artists use a theme for background purposes only, the point of the photograph being to emphasize the models. Not Virgil. Here the concept is unified and as important are the perfectly proportioned players are, the overall view is of the sport itself. This is a fine adjunct to the televised obsession with football - especially at this time of year. Grady Harp, December 10

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal!, February 7, 2011

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This review is from: Gods of Football (Hardcover)

I found this absolutely erotic yet tasteful! Perfect coffee table conversational piece. Would love to blow some of the pics up and hang them up. This along with the others I purchased also were produced for and support great causes so I feel it was a great purchase that gives!