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Rankin's Heidilicious

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When Rankin's Heidlilicious arrived, the book was wrapped in shrink wrap. While removing this plastic, I immediately could appreciate the physical quality of this book. It seems many book publishers are looking for ways to reduce the costs associated with publication and quality often suffers as a result. Heidilicious is the exception.

The dust jacket is thick and double folded at the edges, providing sturdy protection to the hot pink cloth bound boards of the book. If the dust jacket is removed, a smooth-lined silhouette of the female form is embossed in white on the front. The contrast between the white figure and the pink cloth is striking.

The binding appears tight and double-stitched and should survive more than one generation of heavy use.

The high quality of Rankin's photographs are consistent throughout the book and the paper stock used for printing is thick high quality gloss. The ink goes all the way to the edges of the paper.

The mood of the photographs remains playful throughout, but the approach is very dynamic. Heidi mimics a kitten, is clothed only with chocolate syrup, reveals an angry clenched-fisted snarl, frolics nude on the beach, and remains stunningly sexy regardless.

There is a text interview by her husband, Seal, and an interview of Heidi herself. This text is translated into several languages and first appears to be longer than actuality.

If searching for criticism, one may discover a couple of page-spanning photographs that are interrupted by the middle seam of the book, making them difficult to fully appreciate.

Overall this is a quality photographic essay of personality and liberating sexuality. Rankin provides a beautiful collection that constantly reminds of the playful fun side of humanity, and choosing Heidi to help inspire this message was brilliant.

Holy Heidi! This book is as gorgeous as it's namesake. Beautiful binding, unparalleled print quality, very heavy stock: Wow! When I saw this book, I knew I had to have it, and every time I open it, I'm as happy as I was the day it arrived.

What continues to strike me is the relationship that comes across in Rankin's photos. He and Heidi are comfortable with one another. You always hear "smile with your eyes" on shows like America's Next Top Model: in this book, Heidi smiles with her whole body and Rankin captures every inch of it.

Heidi is always my god of love, so this portfolio book is one of the "must have" in my book shelf. Rankin's angle to see Heidi is really fantastic and you'll find that there is many many photoes are published in fashion magazines before, so..why not buy this one with nice binding!!? By the way, if you're a collector, you should buy one...otherwise, you'll feel bad with your finger-prints on it!?!

I loved this book! Every portrait, every composition is a world apart. I am an amateur photographer and for me, this is an amazing bedside book.

This is a pretty nice book, but the images are a little artsy for my taste. They are the type that you might expect to see in a photographer's portfolio -- heavy on the extreme and unnatural facial expressions, fashion, makeup, and to a lesser extent, photographic effects. I felt like the book was as much about the photographer showing off as about showcasing Heidi Klum.

I saw a copy of this photo book in a local bookstore and thumbed through it. Frankly, you couldn't pay me to take this off the store shelf to clutter mine (well, it depends on the amount). I'm afraid I'm just not into the "artsy" stuff. First off, there is no actual nudity here, so if you are looking for that, forget it. Secondly, many of the photos have Heidi "dressed" in chocolate syrup ("Heidilicious"--get it?). I don't know; seeing models dirtied-up in this way seems to be popular with some so-called artistes and the models they persuade into doing this (for "art"), but it just makes me nauseous. But what do I know; if someone likes this kind of stuff, here you go. "Bon appetit."

This book it beautiful. The pictures are great (of course,it is Heidi Klum!)and there is a beautiful letter from Seal in the beginning that just melts my heart! Great book and would recommend to to everyone!

Just as the book's title: HEIDILICIOUS!! Great pictures with a sense of complicity between the model and the photographer.