Nudes
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Sales Rank: 2368375
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Product Specification
- Author:
- Paolo Roversi
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- EAN:
- 9783931141578
- NumberOfItems:
- 1
- NumberOfPages:
- 144
- ProductGroup:
- Book
- PublicationDate:
- 1998-09-21
- Publisher:
- Distributed Art Pub Inc
- Title:
- Nudes
Customer Reviews
Beautiful
This is a beautiful collection of photos, black and white but printed in a warm tone on glare-free paper. All of them have the same format: full-height, standing figure on a shadowless, blank background. Diffuse lighting and tricks with exposure settings hide the modeling of each woman's figure, leaving almost an impression of a line drawing. Even the most solid of the bodies shown seem ghostly, as if the woman could vanish at any moment.There are one-trick photo collections out there, the kind...
10/30/2004 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Not for the main stream crowd
Some twenty to thrity pages of washed out frontal nude shots of women set against a stark white backdrop, this is not for someone wanting plain pretty pictures of Playboy variety. There's often little variety in the poses (standing front, side and sometimes back, leaning over a little) and no action - on the other hand I found that very aspect accented the minute differences in women. Indeed, just glancing through it it's easy to see how wide a variety of body shapes and faces are presented - at...
10/31/2002 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Nudi, A New Way of Seeing.
This is an excellent collection by one of the worlds finest Fashion Photographers. The almost white on white technique is as fascinating as the well know subjects.The presentation of the book is superior and as a figurative gallery photographer I can say that I will refer to it and get ideas from it for many years. Solid Five stars. I think you will agree....
11/3/2001 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Painterly Light,
Paolo Roversi is a master photographer and this monograph of work shows why. His magical portraits of famous models more familiar to us from the pages of Vogue extends to us the progression of photography. Roversi clevely use photographic techniques that result in lush, translucent images that are attractive and senuous.Creamy Pale, almost washed out black and white pictures with soft tones and gossamer texture. He has captured an incredible intimacy that reveals to the viewer the sheer beauty of...
2/12/2001 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Painterly Light,
Paolo Roversi is a master photographer and this monograph of work shows why. His magical portraits of famous models more familiar to us from the pages of Vogue extends to us the progression of photography. Roversi clevely use photographic techniques that result in lush, translucent images that are attractive and senuous.Creamy Pale, almost washed out black and white pictures with soft tones and gossamer texture. He has captured an incredible intimacy that reveals to the viewer the sheer beauty of...
2/12/2001 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews