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These women are not professional models,and look more like someone you might see walking down the street, but they all look great laying on the mattress. They are all nude, but not explicit, still everything is there for the camera.

This is Greg Friedler's fourth book of photography. Like the first three: Naked New York, Naked Los Angeles, and Naked London, he assumes a restrictive setting in which to create his art. In this publication, he poses his nude subjects, all female in this case, upon an equally naked and unadorned mattress. As a photographer, Friedler has created a wonderful series of razor sharp, color portraits, but as an artist he has created an exciting study where each subject allowed herself to be photographed totally naked, lying or sitting on the designated mattress. Each presents herself as she wishes us to see her. Some wear make-up, many are tattooed, some are obviously beautiful while others are more plain. It is a body of portraiture that finds its strength in an amazing sense of honesty on both the part of the model and the photographer. Admittedly, few could pull this off as well as Freidler and in less capable hands would very likely be just a boring exposé of naked chicks. But this is just the sort of book project the Greg Friedler was meant for, and is one that all savvy collectors will want to procure.

MATTRESS circumscribes in an extremely objective terrain in order to transmit an intrinsic aspect of the female gender: courage. Defying and sincere stares, in an environment stripped from ruses in which a humble flowered mattress renders itself as support for earthly goddesses in repose, captured through the vision of the author. These are the images offered by Friedler to remind us of the insistence of women in declaring themselves as who they really are. In my opinion, many viewers from my own Latin culture may strike them as "provocative", a culture in which chastity is confused with annihilating the essence of women and a continuous attempt prevails to destroy the mystical nature of femininity: courage. In my humble opinion, this book is a revelation, an extreme experience into our own insecurities. You will not find the MAJA DESNUDA with her soft curves and gentle face, you will find in this book a raw nature, you will transcend from the nakedness of these bodies captured through the lens and sensitivity of Friedler to fully understand through his intense curiosity, the simplicity of our own human nature. I would recommend this book not only as an artful but also as a learning experience. I profoundly and sincerely thank Greg Friedler for portraying magnificent evidence of feminine potential, and for allowing me to come in contact with my own demons and vulnerability.

MATTRESS transverses an extremely objective terrain -- that of the female form and yet transmits an intrinsically subjective aspect of the female gender: courage. In an environment stripped of ruses, defiant and sincere stares peer out from a humble flowered mattress, which renders itself as support for earthly goddesses in repose, captured through the vision of the author. These are the images offered by Friedler to remind us of female insistence on self-definition. Friedler's images may strike many viewers from my own Latin culture as "provocative", a culture that has confused the glorification of chastity with the annihilation of the essence of women through a continuous attempt to destroy the mystical nature of femininity: valor. However, in my humble opinion, his book is a revelation, an extreme investigation of our own insecurities. You will not find the MAJA DESNUDA with her soft curves and gentle face; you will find in this book a raw nature. Through Friedler's sensitive lens and intense curiosity you will transcend the nakedness of these bodies and come to understand the simplicity of our own human nature. I would recommend this book not only as aesthetic, but also as a learning experience. I profoundly and sincerely thank Greg Friedler for portraying magnificent evidence of feminine potential, and for allowing me to come in contact with my own demons and vulnerability.