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Roy Stuart, Vol. 4: The Fourth Body (Book & DVD)

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If porn icon Larry Flynt ever became the editor of a high-end fashion magazine like Vogue, this is the kind of material that he'd put out, undoubtedly to the outrage of many, and squeals of delight to some. What photographer Roy Stuart has created here is a glossy synthesis of glamour, beauty, and fashion photography ... with sex. And I mean SEX - groping, sucking, and full fledged intercourse. And the result is absolutely AWESOME! This is something we've never seen before. One only has to imagine if all those beautiful, perfect people we see in sexy magazine and billboard advertisements, went just a bit further than what we see in the final, sanitized versions of their photosets. This is what they'd see!

Masterful lighting, brilliant staging, and gorgeous fashion models that look like they stepped off the catwalk in Milan or Paris, all combine to make this one of the most visionary and erotic publications to come out in years. Already an accomplished art photographer, Roy Stuart has topped even himself here.

Before I even knew Roy Stuart's name I was drawn to his photographs. Look through a magazine that has one his layouts in it and you know what I mean. Images so real they're magical. This book is a collection of some of his more daring photos, for those of you that think women should look like living Barbies you may be unhappy. If you love true beauty than this is for you. Roy was very smart by adding a DVD to the book for two reasons 1: It's wonderful 2: Now I need to send him a whole lot more money so I can get the rest of his Glimpse videos. If this is your first Stuart book, let me tell you to just order all four right now you will not regret it.

Each time I look through one of the books by Roy Stuart I am again impressed not only by his creative, original style but also by his highly tuned photographic skills. Look at the artistic skills and perfection behind the work - the lighting, posing, angles, graphics, beauty, comedy, motion, sensuality, eroticism, raw sex - it's all there in each Roy Stuart volume, and even more so in THE FOURTH BODY. Roy Stuart is a genius, and like most great artists, he's got a subversive quirky side which he's bold enough to reveal in many images, in all their artistic and sometimes depraved glory. A society is often defined by the peripheral elements it finds acceptable, and Roy Stuart is not afraid to dance on that periphery, to push the limits, to take the necessary risks that enlarge our horizons. It's inspiring. The FOURTH BODY is a must-have volume. In fact, don't miss any of his other TASCHEN books.

...Roy stewarts work in this 4th volume called the 4th body is truly amongst the best work, yes it is graphically explicit at times, but it is just as tame, with panty shots, to full penetration, from fully clothed men and women to erect penises and vaginas...as you can tell from the other comments his work is not for every one particularly those who are not into blatant, in your face nudity, mostly female, and full on vaginal penetration...but if it is genuine erotic art you're looking for this is truly one of the best...

Roy Stuart is probably one of the best photographers ever.
This book is huge and loaded with many of Roy Stuarts' beautiful women.
The women and the shots are amazing.
This also comes with a full length dvd, also loaded with some incredible video footage.

Roy's new book is his best yet and his forays into film with the enclosed DVD will give viewers who can appreciate his work an added dimension to his art. If you are looking for clichéd, over produced erotic photos that display the same hackneyed images we have seen for ages this is not the book for you. Roy pushes the limits of erotic fantasy but the scenes he creates are beautiful works of art as well. Whether on the streets or in luxury apartments each photo captures a raw, natural quality that is absent in our over commercialized view of what is Erotic.

It is no coincidence that Roy's work has appeared in major galleries throughout the world, and in magazines like Vogue. He is a unique artist that challenges us with each new work, another masterpiece and destined to be another Taschen best-seller.

Beautifully shot, unusual subject material! Shows that erotic can also be stylish. DVD with it very dull though.

"Roy Stuart: The Fourth Body," by Roy Stuart, Koln, Taschen Books & DVD, 2004 - ISBN 3-82282557-3 (hc), 280 p. mostly full page semi-gloss color photos and a sprinkle of B/W photos. There are 8 textual pages with a useful introductory prologue and interview by Dian Hanson -- additional textual material is minimal and it references Stuart's 1st film "The Lost Door" just released, and the author states future works will be confined to cine.

Thus, Stuart claims this as his last book, one that is preceded by 3 prior volumes using a similar large format to feature erotic photography which some will decry as out and out pornography, and is the first to include a DVD. Those familiar with Stuart's work will find this 4th volume on the cutting edge and pushing the barriers of erotic art in the same manner as were attempts at space exploration in breaking the sound barrier or taking the first setp on the Moon. It may particularly irritate, offend and infuriate those of the western cultures (Judeo-Christian) whose religious organizations' persuasions will allow many of them to be excessively troubled and deploring of Stuart's brash, boldly explicit and colorful eroticizations. The interview by Dian is illuminative and should be read by readers & viewers of Stuarts's "....Fourth Body" where the term fourth body does not indicate nor refer to volume #4, but references a sphere of centralian existence transcending carnal, natural body and mind to true consciousness (existentialism).

Stuart dislikes the artificiality of modern day glamour, erotic and overtly pornographic art which is devoted to and depicts women lacking bodily hair (pubo-axillary & extremities) and often sans eroticism as not better than wholesale pornography at its worst: he believies this can be attributed at least in part to a giving in to contrived societal pressures imposed by the bath and beauty establishment whose mission is to sell razors, chemicals and depilatory cremes, etc.
People (woman) then become the objects depicted by advertisers and advertisements -- they are transformed into who the corporate world portrays they should be (its all about money).

Some appreciation might be found in making interpretations between aesthetic and erotic art forms and why one form over another? This book does lower the perceived societal bar on the level of what the western world culture accepts as "erotic" art. I would place it in the same general category of books as "Forbidden Erotica: The Rottenberg Collection, ISBN 3-8228-6413-7 (Taschen). See my review of that book I termed as 'para-erotic." I found Stuart's book of photographs and textual material enticing but provocative and I would recommend it for those whose western cultural aesthetic values are not easily demolished. It is not a book to embellish our coffee tables, but one better placed on the library shelf at the height of puberty plus one inch. Great price too.

wonderful photo and repro quality...intriguing fresh approach to subject matter....also
very sexxy!!!!

This album is more of the same, recycled shots from his previous two volumes. I could not avoid the impression that I was seeing what was left out during the edition of Volumes II and III.