Pictures of Fred [Hardcover]

Howard Roffman (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1998

Fred is an erotic chameleon with a simultaneously masculine and youthful aura of almost magical intensity.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Bruno Gmunder (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3861871297
• ISBN-13: 978-3861871293
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,409,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime! Breathtakingly beautiful! Buy it!, November 8, 2001

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ch0pper "ch0pper" (SOUTHAMPTON, Hampshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pictures of Fred (Hardcover)

How does Roffman manage to capture so much of his subject's soul in his photographs? That he does so capture it is eveident in this wonderfully rich collection of B&W images.

There are a combination of formally posed and more naturally posed photos, and all seem to connect the reader to the model's core. I feel that B&W is the best medium to capture this aspect of erotic photography as you are not distracted by colour.

Fred, a French gymnast and model, is beautiful. He seems at times both carefree and self-aware. Roffman captures the spark of youth.

You really MUST buy this book; you'lle be pleased that you did.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FINE PHOTOGRAPHS, BUT..., August 2, 2001

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MOVIE MAVEN (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pictures of Fred (Hardcover)

Howard Roffman is a fine photographer as proved to many, including me, in two of his previous collections, TALES and THREE.

PICTURES OF FRED has, first-rate, candid and more formal portraits of this very young, handsome, French model and gymnast. However, the accompanying text is so precious that it becomes annoying, esp. with several "typos" in only two pages of text. And since this descriptive essay is very brief, appearing at the beginning of the volume with portions reproduced in various other sections of the book, I wondered why it was even included. Why not have a writer as good as Roffman is a photographer write the text and make it much less manipulative? Some of the phrases are actually as melodramatic as the kind found in paperback, romance novels (i.e. "One night I found Fred alone. He seemed sad, withdrawn...The conversation shook me. Fred had kept his wisdom hidden...By the time the sun set, we were both drained. We collapsed on his couch, and he fell asleep in my lap, naked, vulnerable.")

If a picture is worth a thousand words, I'd like some more pictures and alot fewer words, please.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious and Playful, March 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pictures of Fred (Hardcover)

The name Howard Roffman is synonymous with quality and eroticism, and this photo book is no exception. Each photo is a small glimpse into the life of Fred, a playful and cute young French man. He's certainly not bashful, and seems happy to show the many sides of his personality -- and body. The photo book itself is smaller in dimensions than Roffman's Tales or Three, which actually makes it a more convenient book to peruse. A good addition to any gay man's coffee table.