Features young, trained men embracing the dolce vita.
Browse our Bookshelf Favorites store for big savings on popular fiction, nonfiction, children's books, and more. |
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images? |
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Antonio Bezerra ( also known as 'Didio') is a fine art photographer from Brazil. In this exceptional monograph THROUGH MY EYES he shares images of youths captured in moments that reveal pensive states, solitude, and playfulness, photographs taken en plein air in both richly contrasting black and white and lush color. For the most part these young Adonis figures are captured alone giving the viewer the sense that Bezerra has spent time waiting for the moment that shares the vulnerability of his models. The majority of the models wear swim trunks or underwear or levis: the emphasis here is on the beauty of the whole being rather than the artificially created erotica that other photographers seek.
And while the majority of these artistically beautiful images are of young men alone, Bezerra also shows some models interacting with each other, from the quite poses of two men in gentle black and white sense of friendship to a very special image of two men languidly posing in camaraderie on the beach of Brazil. In the center of the book is a celebratory double page image of eleven men in swimsuits tumbling in a explosion of goodwill and games that is as wonderfully noisy as the surf behind them - and just as lasting.
In short, this is a collection of photographs of the vitality, the beauty and the vulnerability of the young men who communicate with both the photographer, and subsequently to us, the unposed, unfettered, unplanned moments of being comfortable in their bodies, all as seen through the eyes of a gifted photographer, Antonio Bezerra, March 10
And while the majority of these artistically beautiful images are of young men alone, Bezerra also shows some models interacting with each other, from the quite poses of two men in gentle black and white sense of friendship to a very special image of two men languidly posing in camaraderie on the beach of Brazil. In the center of the book is a celebratory double page image of eleven men in swimsuits tumbling in a explosion of goodwill and games that is as wonderfully noisy as the surf behind them - and just as lasting.
In short, this is a collection of photographs of the vitality, the beauty and the vulnerability of the young men who communicate with both the photographer, and subsequently to us, the unposed, unfettered, unplanned moments of being comfortable in their bodies, all as seen through the eyes of a gifted photographer, Antonio Bezerra, March 10
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is an unpretentious offering from Gmunder with the attraction that it takes us to South America for its models, of whom 34 are credited by name. The photographer has lived in Sao Paulo since age 20 and draws his inspiration from Bruce Webber among others. Here he succeeds in bringing together many good looking Latin American men and photographing them mainly in black and white, but sometimes in colour, which works very well. I am disappointed that the cover photo, which is among the strongest in this collection, is not reproduced in the body of the book - but this model does reappear in another guise - riding his saddle which has been slung over a fence. But still ...
5.0 out of 5 stars
Assortment of Beautiful Young Brazilian Men as "Didio" Has Phographed Them Skillfully, with Refined Esthetic Sensibility
March 18, 2012
By C-P Parker
Format:Hardcover
The beauty of these young Brazilian men is sweet, manly, sensuous yet often tenderly innocent, too, and is just totally irresistible. Grady Harp (in his glowingly positive comments for Amazon`s U.S. WWW site), such a fine reviewer of this kind of publication, is entirely right, as ever, in his own very pertinent remarks praising this work.
It would have been nice, though, if some of these lovely lads had been posed in full frontal nudity. Their masculinity just "drips", sweetly and fragrantly (not blatantly), from the page and it would be worthwhile to see all of it, fully nude, for a few of these fine young men, so long, of course, as any of them so singled out for potentially full frontal nude treatment would be willing, without any reluctance or pressure upon him as a condition to pose at all for such a book, to be photographed completely naked. The book`s introduction, however, claims that Didio (pseud. of Antonio Bezerra) intentionally was avoiding the typically posed positions of most male erotic photography, in order rather to capture images of handsome youths in casually informal everyday views (mostly in outdoors settings, at that), which in "real life" as usually experienced (apart routinely from athletic locker rooms, public showers, some public indoor or naturally-occurring outdoor swimming areas, or at nudist camps) one only very seldom would encounter men "au naturel", i.e. entirely buck-naked, even on public beaches! So, for the sake of consistency and for its prevailing mood, perhaps the book is better off, in this regard, just as it is, to such memorable effect.
I am perplexed at why the cover of the book, at least in the printing that I received, has the photo so much darker and less detailed than in the luminously bright and refined clarity of the same photo as reproduced, in the larger form, in this Amazon entry promoting and describing the book. Since this particular photo, the best to my eyes of a truly wonderful bunch, does not recur in the book, that is rather a pity. I cannot tell, not having seen any other printings of the book (if, indeed, there really are more than a single printing), but I am hoping that other photos in the printing which I received do not thus suffer from any more excessively dark contrast than whatever "Didio" may have intended. Perhaps it is from one of the publisher`s printings to another that such variations in degrees of light and dark contrast derive, though I do not know that to be the case; more likely is simply that such high dark-to-light ratio in the images reflects the photographer`s own aesthetic, especially since, admittedly, the results are images, alike that particular one and others, of such intensely, low-glowingly rich texture. Some who acquire this book may wish to print out the Amazon "take" of that photo, in order to have it in another, more brightly luminous form, and to insert that photocopy, "tipped into" the book, as I am doing.
It would have been nice, though, if some of these lovely lads had been posed in full frontal nudity. Their masculinity just "drips", sweetly and fragrantly (not blatantly), from the page and it would be worthwhile to see all of it, fully nude, for a few of these fine young men, so long, of course, as any of them so singled out for potentially full frontal nude treatment would be willing, without any reluctance or pressure upon him as a condition to pose at all for such a book, to be photographed completely naked. The book`s introduction, however, claims that Didio (pseud. of Antonio Bezerra) intentionally was avoiding the typically posed positions of most male erotic photography, in order rather to capture images of handsome youths in casually informal everyday views (mostly in outdoors settings, at that), which in "real life" as usually experienced (apart routinely from athletic locker rooms, public showers, some public indoor or naturally-occurring outdoor swimming areas, or at nudist camps) one only very seldom would encounter men "au naturel", i.e. entirely buck-naked, even on public beaches! So, for the sake of consistency and for its prevailing mood, perhaps the book is better off, in this regard, just as it is, to such memorable effect.
I am perplexed at why the cover of the book, at least in the printing that I received, has the photo so much darker and less detailed than in the luminously bright and refined clarity of the same photo as reproduced, in the larger form, in this Amazon entry promoting and describing the book. Since this particular photo, the best to my eyes of a truly wonderful bunch, does not recur in the book, that is rather a pity. I cannot tell, not having seen any other printings of the book (if, indeed, there really are more than a single printing), but I am hoping that other photos in the printing which I received do not thus suffer from any more excessively dark contrast than whatever "Didio" may have intended. Perhaps it is from one of the publisher`s printings to another that such variations in degrees of light and dark contrast derive, though I do not know that to be the case; more likely is simply that such high dark-to-light ratio in the images reflects the photographer`s own aesthetic, especially since, admittedly, the results are images, alike that particular one and others, of such intensely, low-glowingly rich texture. Some who acquire this book may wish to print out the Amazon "take" of that photo, in order to have it in another, more brightly luminous form, and to insert that photocopy, "tipped into" the book, as I am doing.
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Listmania!
|
|
