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Woman

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I purchased this book because of the cover photograph. Regretably, there are few other photographs within that have the same grace and directness, few where the subject is as strong. The majority of the pictures within would more appeal to the bondage or S/M fetishist. Although I am in no way a prude, I did not anticipate such a preponderance of that subject matter based on the cover design and the Amazon write-up. Without a doubt there is a great deal of skill and craftsmanship involved, and the photos are wonderfully washed and tinted, but there is much less celebration of the fullness of femininity here then I would have hoped for. Persons who enjoy bondage, flagellation and leather accouterments may rate this work higher.

The picture on the cover can be considered one of the better photos in the whole book. The first few pages of the book appears promising. However many of the photographs starts to take on a dark and gloomy feeling especially those with a S&M theme. The different shades and tainting of the photos only add to the gloomy feeling.

A few of the models in the book are fairly attractive and the photographer is able to bring out their beauty in a erotic and suggestieb manner. However almost more than half of the book contains photos of S&M and that may be the downside of this otherwise promising book.

Bravo Ms. Hamilton, this is a great collection of pictures! Let's start with the bad things of the book... it's not perfect! Maybe not bad things, just things I don't like.

Basically every other photography book I have seen, even if they have a dust jacket (they normally don't) they have the picture of the dust jacket also printed on the cover. This book has a fabric cover, so, if you lose the dust jacket, you are indeed losing some of the pictures of the book (they are not inside of it).

The second bad thing... I didn't like that only the odd numbered pages (those on the right side) have pictures on it. The even numbered pages are blank except for the page number.

Besides that, well, the book is in my opinion a masterpiece, probably China Hamilton's Opus Magna. There is a bit of everything. From the most innocent nudes you can imagine, to some soft BDSM, and everything in between. A total photographic study of the woman's body. Dearly recommended. Something important is that, in my opinion, it should not be considered as erotic photography. Nude photography, yes, but most of this pictures are obviously not taken to arouse sexually, they seem to have been taken rather to inspire tenderness, innocence or female beauty beyond her sexual power.

I didn't know what to expect based on the other reviews. But this is a fine collection of hand-made prints from China Hamilton. Nearly every one of them would look great framed. I'm surprised that this book doesn't sell for more.

It is difficult to imagine an erotic photography collection being neither arousing nor artistic, and yet this is exactly what China Hamilton managed to achieve in this less-than-memorable composition. I can only pity these obviously beautiful models presented in such an unappealing fashion. If there is a hidden message here, I failed to see it. My recommendation: stick to the higher calibre artists; Sieff, Newton, Kroll, Kloster, Dahmane, Stuart.