Femmes: Masterpieces of Erotic Photography (Grove Press Poetry Series) - Softcover

Olley, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560253665 ISBN 13: 9781560253662

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001

Synopsis

Femmes provides a comprehensive review of erotic photography over the last century. It is a celebration of the female nude; featuring female couples in images that have been selected to highlight the erotic charge when two women are photographed together, between the women themselves, between models and photographer, and between the photograph and the viewer. Erotic photography is now at the forefront of fashion, and Femmes focuses on one of the most exciting and perennially popular subjects, bringing together a collection of the most significant work in this field. This photographic celebration is wonderfully illustrated with 190 outstanding color, duotone, and black-and-white photographs, including those by Michael Childers, Bob Carlos Clarke, Wolfgang Eichler, Nan Goldin, James & James, Pierre et Gilles, Housk Randall, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Trevor Watson.

About this title

About the Author:

Michelle Olley is editor of P.U.R.E., a sophisticated fashion and arts magazine with a sexy edge. She is the author of three collections of photography, Homme, Venus and Love Lust Desire (Carlton Books). Michelle was previously editor of Attitude, the UK's leading gay men's lifestyle magazine. For over ten years she has been actively involved, as director and features editor, with Skin Two magazine, the world's best-known fetish lifestyle title. Michelle was also responsible for instigating the Skin Two Rubber Ball, now the largest fetish party in the world.

Review:

A visual feast of the erotic, this impressively produced volume contains 190 photographs (in colour, duotone and black and white) along with appropriate text that (thankfully) resists any heavy breathing. One person's eroticism is another person's pornography, the saying goes, but only the most illiberal are likely to be upset by the sumptuous offerings here. The photographers range from the workaday to the truly inspired, but nearly all are suffused with a heady erotic charge that (in certain cases) virtually leaps off the page. This could make a very tempting present for any sensualists of your acquaintance, particularly if they are aficionados of lingerie, black leather and elegant Sapphic couplings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1560253665
• ISBN 13: 9781560253662
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224