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Venus: Masterpieces of Modern Erotic Photography

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This book is beautiful. The reproduction quality is superb, with large images organized by photographer in alphabetical order, no nonsensical verse or smarmy text included. Michelle Olley's introduction and photographer bios are succinct and interesting. Credits/titles for the photos serve as the table of contents -- terrific idea. Oh, um, the pictures, yeah. They are the really beautiful component, of course. There are more than 150, and the emphasis is definitely EROTIC, with nothing from the cool, abstract world of the fine art nude, and very little that would qualify as standard sex magazine content. Many of the photographers here also have websites, so even if readers only used the book as a guide to what to seek on the internet, it would be well worth the price. "Venus" is an amazing and delicious survey.

I received this book as a gift. I'm not a prude - I own many collections of erotic photography. This book - however - I returned. It was really pushing the line to be porn pics. Way too many photos looked like some guy taking bad shots of his naked girlfriend in a hotel room - lighting awful, composition nonexistant. etc. etc. There were a few photos which I thought were well done, but they were greatly outnumbered by others that I'd consider to be more "trashy" and "taseless" than "erotic" any day. You should probably flip through this book at your local book store to see if this is the sort of thing you are interested in - the cover shot by no means represents the work inside the pages.

This book is horribly mis-named. There are no "masterpieces".
Most images are of such low quality that I can't believe they
have been published. Some shots are more like pornography than
art. With the exception of one or two acceptable pictures, this
book is garbage.

I got the chance to view through this book and i was very dissapointed. Most of the pictures inside it have no quality at all. Don`t get fooled by its cover.