Kool Dude Photographic Diary [Hardcover]

Lalli X (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2001

Self-confident and wilful top models, male eroticism provokingly displayed, a swift merciless photographic style that throbs with the pulse of time. This is Kool Dude, the third photo album from the New York fashion photographer Lalli X. In this book, his fashion models make use of the opportunity to reveal themselves differently, uncensored and sexually. They take up "cool" poses and play an irritating game of seduction, of affected mannerisms of the porno star, aggression and machismo. The freedom Lalli X allows his models also generates portraits of disarming intimacy, in which his models let their shrouds drop completely. Kool Dude is a must for every lover of contemporary erotic photography and anyone who is interested in the model business.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 60 pages
• Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh (October 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 386187220X
• ISBN-13: 978-3861872207
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,348,232 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Kool Sexy Dudes with Less Edge!, January 23, 2002

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Joseph J. Hanssen "Joe" (Upstate New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kool Dude Photographic Diary (Hardcover)

Lalli's latest collection of male nude images, I think, are among his best. These guys are young, sexy, muscular and very well-defined. You'll find no body fat here. Most of his models are very good-looking with just a few exceptions. This is a small book with mostly colored shots and a few black & white images. It's about the same size as his other book "Sex Machine: Euros 17". In fact, some of the same models from "Sex Machine" are included in this new book in new poses. There are a few nude frontals but most are shown posing in briefs. The lighting, the mood, and the serious look of the models gives this whole book a lurid feel, quite sexy and pornographic.

Lalli has a way of getting across in his male images a feeling of extreme sexiness, that I don't think any other photographer has been able to accomplish like he has. This book is not as edgy or dramatic as his first book, Fun ? Game: Male Models After Dark , but that's all right. What we have with "Sex Machine" and "Kool Dudes" is just as sexy, a little less edgy, but stunning in it's presentation of what a creative photographer can do when challenged with photographing young men in the prime of their life. Quite an accomplishment. Recommended!