Rare Creatures: Portraits of Models [Paperback]

Howard Schatz (Author), Beverly Ornstein (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2002

Rare Creatures is a series of photographs by Howard Schatz of New York fashion models. The book contains 76 color photographs.

Hundreds of models come to castings at our studio in New York as a necessary step in advance of a beauty or fashion shoot. They come from all over the world and they embody an enormous range of human expression, physical beauty, complexion, sexiness, personality and hope. This work was inspired by these "rare" creatures.

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About the Author

Howard Schatz lives and works in New York with his wife and business partner, Beverly Ornstein. His fine art work has been exhibited in museums and photography galleries internationally and has been published in numerous magazines as well as in 14 books of photography. He has received international critical acclaim for his photography and is one of the most sought-after photographers working today

Product Details

• Paperback: 106 pages
• Publisher: Wonderland Press; First. edition (January 2002)
• ISBN-10: 0971021007
• ISBN-13: 978-0971021006
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #665,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elegant, Evocative, Sexy and Sensual, February 9, 2003

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"leadinedge" (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rare Creatures: Portraits of Models (Paperback)

Radiant beauties glow with ethereal light. Young women from all corners of the world are captured in intimate, evocative portraits, nudes, and digitally hand-tinted transmutations. In just over a decade, photographer and digital master Howard Schatz and his wife and collaborator Beverly Ornstein have created an incredible body of work for both the advertising and editorial realms, including more than a dozen books. Among the latest, Rare Creatures is a stunning paean to youthful beauty. Elegant, evocative, both sexy and sensuous, Rare Creatures is beautifully conceived and sumptuously printed.-HM

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Difficult to grant quality while publishing a book eachyear, January 16, 2003

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"looka" (Milano (Italy)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rare Creatures: Portraits of Models (Paperback)

I bought this book after reading many reviews, unfortunately I did not like the book at all. The authenticity of Schatz is over, in the book you find photos giving you the feeling of a "deja vu". It's a collection of model's books not conveying at all the particular touch Schatz always had in the past.
Photography is continuous research, but why trying to have it paid by the money of past admirers, poor readers or collectors, using the name of a past glory? Such a tendency continues, Schatz is now in Milano at the Armani cafè with Athlets, great images, sensuous masses, but the exhibition could be a graduation essay of an Adobe Photoshop class. Bye Howard.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Thousand Poems, February 20, 2003

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Frank Pasqualino (Fox Chapel, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rare Creatures: Portraits of Models (Paperback)

"Rare Creatures" is a wonderful book, adding depth and intensity to a seemingly easy subject matter, making the beautiful more beautiful. Images move beyond shape, transcending sexuality and seduction. As we are drawn into the picture, she ceases to be distant, becoming one that I have always known at the same moment that she becomes timeless; remaining for eternity what we wish to be, what we dream we are. If a picture is able to paint a thousand words, "Rare Creatures" speaks a thousand poems.