Pola Woman, Archives de Nuit & Illustrated Erotica

Pola Woman

Helmut Newton's collection of Polaroids gives us a window into his technique. In this marvelous display of two decades of fashion and erotic photography at the rough-draft level, all the brilliance of a Helmut Newton photo is here: the exquisite light, the insouciant models, the surprise, the attitude, and the glamour.
Unlike a typical photographer's monograph, there is an element of rawness rarely seen in Helmut Newton's meticulous finished work. Indeed it is these pictures' lack perfection that makes Pola Woman the perfect book with which to experience Helmut Newton's singular vision, the depth of his skill, and the boundless wealth of his imagination.
Helmut Newton: Pola Woman
ISBN: 3888147492

Archives de Nuit

Posed in cluttered kitchens, in storefront windows, in hotel rooms and hospital wards, Helmut Newton's models are at once active and passive, whimsical and wistful, domestic and feral. Although these images are neither aggressively seductive nor glamorous, Helmut Newton's presence is felt nevertheless in his pictures' self-confidence, their assertiveness, and their defiance of society's rules and their embrace of its taboos.
Helmut Newton: Archives de Nuit
ISBN: 388814664X

Erotic Fantasy Photography

The mainstream acceptance of images and icons from the once secretive world of S/M fantasy - dominatrixes, bondage heroines, damsels in distress, and a wealth of other characters - have helped make fetish fantasy photography a legitimate artistic form. Fetish: Masterpieces of Erotic Fantasy Photography collects the best of this exciting genre, combining the finest contemporary images with some of photography's most notable pre-scene manifestations - images from 1950s underground and bondage publications; kinky creations from the '60s; and glamour work from the '70s and '80s. With 220 color, duotone, and black-and-white images from leading fetish photographers like Peter Ashworth, Chris Bell, Laurent Boeki, Wolfgang Eichler, and Horst P. Horst, and insight into fetish clubs and fashion houses, Fetish will excite connoisseur and curious alike.
Fetish: Masterpieces of Erotic Fantasy Photography by Tony Mitchell
ISBN: 1560252537

Illustrated Erotica

As artful as it is exciting, as tasteful as it is daring, this up-market illustrated Mammoth volume offers a massive gallery of stunning images by eighty photographers who have set the trends in nude photography and made a mark with their erotica in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
Among the photographers included by the editors of this piquant and varied collection stand Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Eichler, Bob Carlos Clarke, Mario Testino, Wolfgang Tilmans, Roy Stuart, Trevor Watson, Michele Serchuk, Trevor Baker, Pascal Baetens, and Eric Kroll.
All the photographers in the volume are generously represented by six pages of images that showcase their particular talent to best advantage in highly nuanced, top-quality black-and-white reproductions. Accompanying the presentation of each set of images, meticulously chosen for their aesthetic as well as their erotic appeal, are brief biographical vignettes of the photographers themselves that together provide a survey of developments and experiments that have advanced the artistry of contemporary erotic photography.
The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica by Maxim Jakubowski
ISBN: 0786709219

Naked Women

Naked Women explores the subject of the female nude in photography in all its beauty and variety, with selections from ninety of the world’s most renowned photographers, dating from 1850 to the present day.
The reader is taken through a wide range of artistic styles from pictorialism to realism, from surrealism to postmodernism; viewing and understanding the historic images of Edward Muybridge and Bill Brandt; the established sexiness of Herb Ritts; and the quirkiness of emerging stars of the contemporary scene such as Angel Baccassino.
While maintaining their individual style and interpretation of the female form, each photographer has been chosen for the impact they have made on the genre and on photography as an art, as well as for the beauty of their images, and the technical prowess with which they are achieved. Printed four-color throughout, the photographs are glorious and irresistibly eye-catching.
Includes work from well-known photographers and artists such as Araki, Eve Arnold, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Larry Clarke, Lucien Clergue Peter Lindbergh, Irving Penn, Steven Meisel, Herb Ritts, Jan Saudek, Mario Testino, and Dorothy Wilding.
Naked Women: The Female Nude in Photography from 1850 to the Present Day by Philip Braham
ISBN: 1560253363

Women by Women

Devoted to nude and erotic photography by women photographers, this new exciting book illustrates the emotional force and sensual beauty of the female body as seen through the feminine lens.
This gorgeous book features the works of some of today’s most important female photographers. More than one hundred images explore themes such as introversion and extroversion, the private and the public. The book examines the distinctly female aspects of erotic photography, and what emerges is a profoundly sympathetic relationship between viewer and subject.
And, as a number of these women artists have worked as models themselves, their perspective on this role adds yet another layer to this powerful volume. Strikingly beautiful and elegant, this provocative collection is a lovely introduction to an increasingly important genre.
Women by Women: Erotic Photography by Peter Delius

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