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Karin Rosenthal-Twenty Years Of Photographs

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There is a subtle quality to Karin Rosenthal's photographs that is very hard to describe in words, which will fall short in adverbs to describe her beautifully elegant images.

She focuses her work on the human body without allowing the body itself to dominate the work. It is where she composes moist landscapes, where human flesh is the lands and dark, black water the erotic mirror for this living island of flesh, that her work strikes a primeval chord. This is high quality, rarified fine art photography at its best. Don't expect to find fuzzy, oily lenses with soft-focus images here. What you will find is very good photography with well-honed dark room and compositional skills. She truly flexes her artistic muscles in this book!

Karin Rosenthal manages to bring a given mood to each of her photographs, in addition to the excellent images she portrays. The majority of the photographs in this book bring the viewer into an almost physical contact with the subtle portrails of the human form. This is not a book of abject erotica, but more a celebration of the different parts of the human form.

The human body continues to amaze with its ability to excite our senses, and yet artists continue to find new ways to present it to us. This is what makes this such a special book, is that Karin Rosenthal delivers a brilliant tour of what can be accomplished with something as beautiful as the body and Earth elements, most notably water. This is a skilled, creative photographer with ample darkroom skills to boot!