Heavenly Beauties [Hardcover]

Pascal Baetens (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2005

• Beautiful coffee-table book—at an
affordable price!


• Author is well known in fine art photography circles, with exhibits planned in the US


Pascal Baetens's sublime black-and-white fine art nudes are praised around the globe, and here, in his fourth book, his work reaches a crescendo of style and purity. Baetens’s photos "remind us of those precious moments of discovery when all was well with the world and nature was in perfect harmony with the beauty of the female form," says Andrew Rawlins. Everyone who appreciates the beauty and the art of female nudes needs this beautiful book by a rising star.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Pascal Baetens, author of Amphoto’s The Art of Nude Photography (0-8174-3315-5), works in the fields of portrait, fashion, travel, and nude photography. His work has been featured in several exhibitions, as well as three of his own books and many
compilations of modern photography. He lives in Belgium.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Amphoto Books (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817439838
• ISBN-13: 978-0817439835
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,179,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Black & White Nudes from a Riveting Talent, October 21, 2005

By 

Michelle7 "Editor of Michelle7(dot)com" - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Heavenly Beauties (Hardcover)

This is one of those overlooked gems that collectors really need to take a second look at. It has not received the proper attention from the press, at least in America, and there has been some confusion due to the change in title from Heavenly Girls to Heavenly Beauties. But don't let that distract you - this is an amazing publication from one of the most exciting art photographers in all of modern Europe. It's a perfectly produced photography book with dimensions of 8.5x10.5 inches (21x27cm) and features approximately 250 black & white photographs, with all but two or three being full nudes.

Belgian photographer Baetens is a riveting talent. His nudes are absolutely stunning and his original composition and style put him amongst the elite photographers in the genre. He is also well known in Europe as a fashion and travel photographer. But his nudes are ultra-extraordinary. His beautiful subjects radiate in the wide variety of settings that Baetens shoots in; such as gargantuan industrial sites, quaint bedroom chambers, agriculture fields, dilapidated buildings, and lush woodlands. Baeten's spectacular vision is what unifies this work, ties it together into one big, spine-tingling show. It is truly a glimpse of what heaven must be like.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very beautiful images, February 5, 2006

By 

William D. Tompkins (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Heavenly Beauties (Hardcover)

This book contains very beautiful women posed very nicely. The images of the women in the empty room are great. I think the photographer replicates himself a little bit in the book, displaying images that are so close to eachother that they are not diiferentiated from eachother well enough. if they were suppoed to show a series, then it doesnt come off well enough.

There are some amazing images where I found myself staring at the beauty of the image.

15 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Naked women in urban decay, January 21, 2007

By 

Jason Nadler (Wading River, NY United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Heavenly Beauties (Hardcover)

I actually returned this book after thumbing through it. Unfortunately, it is just the photography of one man, and not a compilation. Unfortunately, he has a defined theme, contrasting beautiful women with decaying urban settings, which grows very stale. I found a few photographs to be very artful, but overall I felt they worked more-so as landscapes than as nudes.