Roy Stuart: Volume II [Hardcover]

Roy Stuart (Photographer)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Taschen (May 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3822868701
• ISBN-13: 978-3822868706
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,956,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roy Staurt is the GOD of fashion/fetish photography!, October 14, 1999

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This review is from: Roy Stuart: Volume II (Hardcover)

Taschen has published another brilliant book. Roy Staurt creates photographs that make Helmut Newton look like a rank amateur. Staurt is the male Bettina Rheims (Chambre Close), his sense of location and time is sublime. It is pure pleasure to see a fashion photographer with perfect technique disclose his deepest kinks and fantasies in such gorgeous colors. His casting is flawless, ah the luxury of NOT finding a single surgically or steroid enhanced model between the covers. Roy Stuart Vol. 2 is a must have book. Leave this beautifully printed art book out on your coffee table the next time you have a party - your life will change when almost everyone has gone home...

13 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The first book was intriguing; this one's pathetic., May 26, 2000

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D. Mok (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roy Stuart: Volume II (Hardcover)

An attempt at making his photos more "narrative" has backfired on Roy Stuart on this volume. Here, not only are the pictures much more fetishistic, they're also exploitative to the point where they start to resemble stills from a low-budget porn film. Granted, Stuart's first book contained some very explicit images, but on this second book the models all seem to pose for maximum exposure -- in unnatural stances designed to reveal the most of their organs (those "karate kicks sans panties" definitely fall in this category). The result is a cold, calculated, dirty-looking caricature of sensuality, where "animalistic" is there but "sexuality" is entirely missing. This second volume is about as sexy as looking at medical textbooks, and about as aesthetically appealing.

11 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of Erotism, December 13, 1999

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martưn alexandro "martưn alexandro" (Barcelona, Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roy Stuart: Volume II (Hardcover)

The first thing I thought when watching the album was how hard it is to diference Art [Erotism] from Pornography. And if there's such a dividing line, it might be even impossible to determine, but when I finished the book, I get satisficed. I feel like the book was not just another nonsense photobook, but a true work of art. This book gathers all the pictures from the side of the line where the Erotism resides. Nice job by Rob Stuart.