Customer Reviews

Nudes (Photography)

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The first 60% of this book consists of photographs of women. The next 20% is of males, and the final 20% are couples (gay, lesbian, and straight).

The vast majority of the photographs are black & white and consist of young and beautiful models. There is such a variety of different images, and the same model is rarely used twice. Sexual overtones are definitely apparent throughout the book, along with a few closeups of genetalia.

It is a short book (in terms of height) but it is also quite thick. The photographs take up each entire page and the only text is the artist name at the beginning of each new group of photographs.

I came across this little book during one of my frequent trips to the photo section of my local Borders and had to pick it up. Mainly due to is very small size.
I was soon trapped flipping through the hundreds and hundreds of pages of beautiful nude photographs, unable to put the book down.
The only text in this book is a bit at the beginning and end and then the name of each photographer before you see their work. Thats it. No rambling text, just great nude photos.
This collection feature many of the worlds best nude photographers and is broken down into three sections. Female nudes, Male nudes, and couple nudes. It really cant get much more simple that that.
The book is printed on good gloss heavyweight paper, as you would expect to find in photo monographs and has a sturdy hardback.
Although a great collection of photos and printed well, I am a bit disappointed in the book size. It only measures about 3inches by 3inches, and because of the large number of photos inside, the weight of the book tends to deteriorate the binding fast if viewed a lot. Also, I have found it hard to find a good place for this tiny book on my shelf. It just doesnt fit in very well. But becuase the book is so good and the downfalls are few, I only took one star.
I still feel that all nude photography fans should purchase this book for their collection at its very cheap price.

For such a small book -- it measures just over 5"X5" -- this holds a whole lot of great pictures. From the ordinary to the sensual, this book is worth looking at. It really made me want fruit (see pages 28 and 29)!
However, for being a book based solely on perusing, the small size is rather off-putting. It's not the detail that gets lost in translation, but the impact. However, the perfect price for this lets me wholeheartedly recommend this title for those that are interested in photos of nudes.

The book is small 5 x 5 and all the pictures are b&w. Most of the pictures have a softened (grainy) tone. I prefer clear pictures. Most of the subjects are normal people and unknown.

In the 500 plus pages of this book there are a dozen good nudes, possibly twenty. The rest of the photos are poor quality shots, with plenty of fig leafing, Shadows, poor lighting, and shots supposedly getting erotic by covering up the models. If the reader wants to see what's in the book, borrow it from a library and order a much better nude photo album, like 100 naked girls, or Crazy Sexy Girls, or Shaven Angels.

I purchased this small 5 x 5 book, because of the photograph on the cover by Luis Malibran, which I loved! This book portrays the nude body in its array of various shapes, sizes, color and texture which is represented by a variety of photographers. Some of my favorite photographs were by Ricardo Miras, Enric Aromi, Christian Maury, Gunter Knop, Yuri Dojc, Robert Chouraki, Pascal Baetens, Kingdom19, Carlos Quiroz, Pedro Avellaned, JAM Montoya and Stanley Stellar. The majority of the prints are black & white or sepia tones and the full size of the page. This book is under 1000 pages and printed on quality paper, it's a nice addition to my growing collection.

The book is divided into three unequal sections: women, men and couples. There is a wide range of artistic interpretation ranging from abstract, portrait, sensual and erotic among the various mediums depicted. There weren't many artists that stood apart from the other photographs in the book with the exception of the artists mentioned above. I noticed a repetition of various themes, the only difference was a different model giving a feel of sameness to most of the book.

One of the things that makes this book stand out from other nude photography books is photography director, Lidia Carbonell desire to establish a visual dialogue between the artist and the observer as mentioned at the beginning of the book. The contact information for each of the photographers is provided at the end of the book which is a nice touch, but considering the book was published in 2003 most of the contact numbers may be out of date.

I loved this book! It had tons of sexy photography ideas which you can use for valentines or anniversary pictures.

You find in that book previously unreleased works
by the great german photographer / photographist Kingdome19.
The content with male models are sadly a little bit low.
Together a book with hundreds of nudes . female & male