My Nude - Tom Jacobi - Nude Photography - Hardcover - Rare

Description: This rare hardcover book titled "My Nude" by Andrew Craston is a stunning addition to any photography collection. With 127 pages of captivating photos. "This collection represents the best of a magazine's photo contest: present the best photographic nude. "Best" means as many different things as there are photographers, models, and cameras - that constraint hardly narrows things down. I found a few trends here, all of which I liked. One trend I'll call the "scuptural." As on the cover photo, it uses all the flexibility of a superb athlete to align the vectors of a body's parts in ways that bring something new to the viewer. Muller (p.16), Schulz (p.44), and Doring (p.77) all capture camera angle and human figure in ways that cast beauty at the viewer long before they offer structural logic. Others, including Garbe (p.101) and Koltgen (p.27), create utterly literal abstractions from the play of curve and light. My favorites, though are just fun. Seeing a lady simply happy in herself (pp.15, 23, 64) or offering her physical presence as a statement of boldness (pp. 51, 32) carries a spirit that I find lovely. As happens so often, the figures are all except one or two slim, twenty-ish, and Anglo in feature and figure. Don't get me wrong, they're beautiful (or at least pretty). I just want to know where all the other ladies went - and, whatever color, age, and shape, who the woman is inside the figure. That's just me wishing the book was different than it is, though. What it is offers visions from dozens of artists in appealing, un-challenging ways to see the female figure. The little bit of tie-me-up fetish stuff is ignorable, the rest is glorious." - Amazon Reviewer

Price: 64.99 USD

Location: Austin, Texas

End Time: 2025-01-19T23:58:45.000Z

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