Customer Reviews

Naked Rooms

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This book is really really good. I didn't know what to think when I got it in the mail. It was my first Gorman experience. First off, these are the woman that we see everyday of our lives. The woman that walk past us on the street. They are all in private living situations. The privace of their own homes, or so it seems. Some of the models are clothed, some not, some half undressed, but what is nice is they are all very very different. There are unattractive, very attractive models and models of all races.

Gorman captures these woman in the situations that we all go though during the week. Photos of woman in the shower, eating, sitting, even masterbating. This is a very [explicit] book. Period. I loved it. After buying this book, I am going off to get his first book "Naked in Apartment 7".

The only flaw I found in this book was its size. It is about the size of a trade paperback book. Pretty small. So some of the pictures you have to strain to see, and some that take up two pages, you will find the model right smack in the crease of the book, ruining the picture. Other than that small complaint I have, I loved the book. Add this to you collection.

Gorman has demonstrated that he is a top-notch photographer of nudes and erotic nudes in the controlled environment of his apartment. I enjoyed his stylized black-and-white work in his previous "Naked" book. However, this book suffers from its format (the pages are too small) and the quality of pictures. Admittedly, Gorman's purpose was to give his subjects a raw, in-the-moment appearance. Unfortunately, despite Gorman's use of a variety of cameras, too many of these photos have the appearance of rushed, out-of-focus snapshots taken on a cheap instant camera.

Peter Gorman shot to fame in 2001 with the publication of his first book, Naked in Apartment 7, where he photographed, in black & white, a range of nude females within the confines of his New York apartment. He changes course here in Naked Rooms, shooting entirely in color and on location in the home of each of his models, who range from stock brokers to commercial pilots to law enforcement professionals. There is also a sense of movement in much of this work, blurred movements, action, and we know some of this is from Peter's approach to his photo-sessions where he instructed his subjects to roam around the house with him "chasing" them. That's key to what makes this such an exciting body of work, there's very little sense that anything was staged or even prepped for the photo-session. It's fast. It's quick. It's raw. It's a kinetic journey into the private chambers of these attractive, young women .. and that they are naked makes it all the sweeter. This is a great book, but it's an even more interesting study of an art photographer who's wholly unafraid to take chances ... and that's VERY cool!

I have Peter Gorman's first book "Naked in Apartment 7" and when I heard he had another book coming out I was thrilled to see more of this man's work. What I did not expect was it to be so different from his first book and different it is, this work is in color and has more of a snap shot feel but the moments of catching his naked models in their own apartments is beyond exciting. To see these women in what seems to be very real moments, I have to say is all the more intriguing. The women are beautiful and the photos are alive. Highly recommended.

Sorry to be anonymous, but where I am from this book and these photos would not be understood as art.

The book gives an insight, of all types of girls. The girls had large breasts to small, firm to not so firm. I remember visiting New York apartments in my youth. Looking at this book brought back memories of visiting friends in NY. I like the wide variety of different looking girls. All are in their 20 - 39. All were pretty in their way. It makes me appreciate even more my 42 year young wife. I am older.

My complaint was the photographer wanted to show girls moving around their apartments. 65% were sightly blurry, out of focus pictures. 10% were very blurry. I feel if he did not do the blurry effect, it would give more insight of the feel like you are there.

I am usually a fan of Peter Gorman's work. However, 'Naked Rooms' was a complete disapointment. The concept for the collection of nudes had great potential. Gorman photographed numerous women in their own apartments, even instructing them not to clean up too much, in order to capture his models in their own environments. The premise is fantastic; photographing models in their own surroundings opens up a multitude of options for capturing the personalities of the models. Gorman fails in this respects. Few of the photographs offer any insight into the lives or personalities of the models. The use of a single flash lends the photographs a 'snapshot' quality that leaves several of the photographs rather flat. I was hoping to see a collection of candid photos that would express the personalities of the models or offer a peek into their everyday lives. Instead, the photos were, with a few exceptions, dull and uninspired. The models frequently look uninterested and even unhappy in front of the camera. Very few photographs felt candid, instead they appeared half staged. In fact the best offerings were photographs that were clearly staged. Photographs of uninterested models half nude in the shower seemed almost like an insult to the potential of this book. Almost the entire collections looks as if it was shot by an amateur with a disposable camera, not the work of an artist of Gorman's calibur. Save your money and avoid this book; it pales in comparison to Gorman's other works, particularly 'Naked in Apartment 7' which has a similar fell, but is much more engaging, artistic, and entertaining.

Ok, granted the idea of having a group of very average girls (but no fat ones) photographed naked in their apartments (Which must not be arraigned to look tidy. It shall stay just as it is, as if the photographer walked in unexpectedly) is interesting, and because the models are the ones who dictate what they are going to do, and not Mr. Morgan, there is a spontaneity about them which is great and some (but very few) are intensely erotic because of their honesty.

However, how find to rhyme or reason for selecting a large group of them out of focus, to show movement? Its looks more like the photos taken by a friend from school who does not have a clue about how to graduate the speed of light in the camera. Do not waste your money on this book.

I really like this book.The photos are erotic and sexy,but very tastefuly done.They really let the personalities of the models shine through.I'd recommend it to any true fan of erotic photography.

If you ever tried to take pictures in a real-life environment, in a small apartment, not in studio, you could know it's not the easiest thing to do to make it looking interesting. Look through this book. It's so simple, and it's so... art.

What makes this better than Nude apartments is that the photos are in black & white. In the previous book, the photos were 2d. Color makes the photos deeper and with more emotion.