Customer Reviews

My Wife

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

There are some great photos in here and then some so-so ones. I found that flipping through this book became boring. After a while, seeing the same woman with her legs around her ears starts to get old. I guess that's what marriage is all about, but I'm not married to her. My real complaint is the over abundance of simaler images. Some of these pictures are better than the others. She's a beautiful woman, but less is more.

Hegre's wife is attractive, and many pictures in this book are nicely done. He has done a good job of recording her great body and spirited personality. There is a great variety of locations and situations, a little of everything, and the book is well printed.

But too many of the photographs are tiresome repetitions of her shaved vagina. OK, sure, it is attractive and all that, but this book would have been stronger if about half of the vag pictures remained sealed in a box at the Hegre's home, and not been included in this book.

If I were asked to use one word to describe this book it would be "intimate". As the title implies, this books is a collection of images of Hegre's wife. Some of the photography is clearly "museum quality", but there are also red-eyed snapshots here. There is something almost voyeuristic about seeing Hegre's wife in so many everyday scenarios.

If someone wanted to create an exact duplicate of Hegre's wife, this book would give them the blueprint to work from.

Did I get the same book as the other reviewers? This is not much more than a family album for an obviously uninhibited couple. Yes the lighting and camera work is competent but I found the photographs woefully lacking in erotic appeal. There may be a voyeuristic appeal for some as most of the photographs appear spontaneous. I consider this book to be a less raunchy and more attractive version of Natacha Merritt's Digital Diaries. There are a few nice shots but this is not an Eric Kroll, Roy Stuart, or Helmut Newton collection. There is very little style.

My perception of this book was ruined I think by seeing the full size pictures first. While in Hamburg, Germany I was lucky enough to see Petter Hegre's work on display at the Erotic Art Museum (on the corner of Grosse Freiheit and Reeperbahn if you get the chance). Impressed, I looked through the book in the gift shop.

How disappointing. The power of the pictures is lost in the small format. Instead of seeing them as pieces of art, I couldn't help but look at the book as a collection of someone else's snapshots. It's nothing more than a photo album of mediocre pictures.

This is the type of project we all would love to do, but rarely ever follow through on. Here Petter Hegre has set a fine (artistic) example for us all, he has opened his (and his wife's) private life up to us all to view from these pages. The photographs range from beautifully set fine art types, to down right obscure. I just can't put this book down. Thank You, Mr. Hegre. Enjoy...

This book is unforgettable. I wasn't sure how to react to it at first, but the more I found out about how and why it was made, the more I realised it's an honest and beautiful erotic work. I'm not one to gush, but this book really does makes quite an impact.

Its an interesting book with a certain sense of voyeurism, as if one is viewing private photographs belonging to someone else. This is probably so because many of the images display a snapshot quality; which in itself may not be a bad thing. However, I'm not convinced that all the photographs in this book were taken with cameras worth $100 or less as the author claims, especially when the model is holding a $1800 medium format camera in one of the shots. I also did not find much merit in the three nipple shot.

This book may or may not float your boat. For me, it has required me to reconsider at how I delineate the lines between ponography and artistic commentary and and ultimately, good taste.

My Wife is a wonderful book. Certain photos were unbelievably intimate and mesmerizing. There were others that were too "snap shot" quality for my personal taste. I think that the female body is very beautiful but seeing numerous photos of the same gentalia is a little monotonous. There is a second woman in a few of the photos who is unidentified. Hegre's wife and the second woman are in several photos in a sexual manner which does break up the boringness of the layout. I do realize that I concentrated on the negative aspects of the book, but overall it is a good book and I would recommend it to others.

I expected so much more from Petter. But these images are all the same. Maybe if more photos were in color, it would be interesting but it isn't. Luba is a much better book.