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Summary: Beautiful Imagery at it's finest
Review: The images in this book evoke a sense of innocence that we have lost in fear of retrobution from the religeous zealots in our society. I myself come from a Christian point of view, and I can truly say that I was never offended by this body of work. We need people like you pushing the envelope of our preconceived notions of so called "Purity". Your work has reinspired me to take chances in my work. Thank you.
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Summary: Delicate, profoundly sensitive
Review: The latest Sturges work, Radiant Identities, focuses on adolescent youth and beauty with a sensitivity few photographers have been able to achieve, or at least, publish. His work is soft and gentle, yet it does portray a feeling of the budding eroticism inherent in his youthful subjects. Their eyes mirror both their dreams and their youth, the entire work flows with this same special theme that we should all be allowed to remember from our own teen years.
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Summary: What photography is supposed to be.
Review: These are wonderful, sensitive pictures. All of them document the human figure (both male and female) in many of its ages. It's a topic that can never get old, not as long as the viewer is human too.Normally, I don't have strong response to photography as art. At first, I simply enjoyed the peaceful scenes and happy people that Sturges portrays. Many of his subject are young people, though, and my mind drifted back to myself at their age. Somehow, it all came rushing back to me: that sense of mystery and awe, about fifth grade, when I first started seeing the girls around me becoming young women. Sturges has a unique talent for showing the steps between child and adult with respect and innocence. I was not prepared for the evoked memory of myself at that innocent age. This book collects some of the most beautiful figure studies I've ever seen. I truly hope that you can appreciate it the way it was mean to be seen.
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Summary: Beautiful, Rare, Perfect Work
Review: This book is beautiful. All the works are done very well, showing the beauty of youth and family. I was first drawn to Sturges work after looking at photos of David Hamilton. His work is very contoversial. but I ask why? Is a picture of a 13 year old girl shaving her legs in the shower so terrible? The thing is, thats these photos are not about viewing young nude girls reaching puberty, but showing the beautiful changes that we have all gone though in life, men or woman. The people that bash Sturges work are not looking at the photographs close enough. If they did, they would realize that thoughout his albums, the photographs are of adolecents becoming adults. You will find the same model at the beginning of the book at age 8, and by the end of the book there are photos of her at age 16. Get my point. Also I feel that there is a very strong feeling of family bonding in the work of Sturges. So many of his pictures are of families on the beach and other places. Most of them in the nude. And I think that he wants to show how close these families are. Most teens would freak if their parents saw them naked, but here we see how secure, happy, and close these families are with earch other. This is not trash, this is work that very very few people can do. Sturges is very classy about his work. No open legs (if so, it is not staged at all), and with his 8x10 camera, is also able to get beautiful wide angle shots that show more than a nude boy girl or family, but the beautiful beaches and skies that surround them. Don't miss and of Sturges work. Its not worth missing. Open your mind to all forms of art. Get this book. You will rush to by the rest of his works including (the last day of summer, self-titled, and new work)
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Summary: Beautiful, Rare, Perfect Work
Review: This book is beautiful. All the works are done very well, showing the beauty of youth and family. I was first drawn to Sturges work after looking at photos of David Hamilton. His work is very contoversial. but I ask why? Is a picture of a 13 year old girl shaving her legs in the shower so terrible? The thing is, thats these photos are not about viewing young nude girls reaching puberty, but showing the beautiful changes that we have all gone though in life, men or woman. The people that bash Sturges work are not looking at the photographs close enough. If they did, they would realize that thoughout his albums, the photographs are of adolecents becoming adults. You will find the same model at the beginning of the book at age 8, and by the end of the book there are photos of her at age 16. Get my point. Also I feel that there is a very strong feeling of family bonding in the work of Sturges. So many of his pictures are of families on the beach and other places. Most of them in the nude. And I think that he wants to show how close these families are. Most teens would freak if their parents saw them naked, but here we see how secure, happy, and close these families are with earch other. This is not trash, this is work that very very few people can do. Sturges is very classy about his work. No open legs (if so, it is not staged at all), and with his 8x10 camera, is also able to get beautiful wide angle shots that show more than a nude boy girl or family, but the beautiful beaches and skies that surround them. Don't miss and of Sturges work. Its not worth missing. Open your mind to all forms of art. Get this book. You will rush to by the rest of his works including (the last day of summer, self-titled, and new work)
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Summary: Beautiful, Rare, and Perfect Work
Review: This book is beautiful. All the works are done very well, showing the beauty of youth and family. I was first drawn to Sturges work after looking at photos of David Hamilton. I loved Hamiltons work, and wanted to see more of captured beauty of adolecent woman, but without the soft staged effects. This is when I found Jock Sturges. His work is very contoversial. but I ask why? Is a picture of a 13 year old girl shaving her legs in the shower so terrible? The thing is, thats these photos are not about viewing young nude girls reaching puberty, but showing the beautiful changes that we have all gone though in life, men or woman. The people that bash Sturges work are not looking at the photographs close enough. If they did, they would realize that thoughout his albums, they show girls becoming woman, and the changes they are going through. You will find the same model at the beginning of the book at age 8, and by the end of the book there are photos of her at age 16. Get my point. This is not trash, this is work that very very few people can do. Sturges is very classy about his work. No open legs (if so, it is not staged at all), and with his 8x10 camera, is also able to get beautiful wide angle shots that show more than a nude boy girl or family, but the beautiful beaches and skies that surround them. Don't miss and of Sturges work. Its not worth missing. Open your mind to all forms of art. Get this book. You will rush to by the rest of his works including (the last day of summer, self-titled, and new work)
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Summary: Fine Line Between Art and Pornography
Review: Throughout the years, there has always been speculationon what nude photography is art and what is pornography. The work of Jock Sturges is art of the highest order. Parents take pictures of their babies and toddlers while bathing, and it's called cute. Adults are photographed nude for porno magazines and it is called disgusting. Then what is Jock Sturges' photos of nude adolescents called? His subjects are photographed in their natural surroundings, in their daily lives. I enjoy comparing the photos in this book with those in "The Last Day of Summer" and seeing how the subjects have changed over time. Sturges' work is pure art and I truly recommend it for the avid art enthusiast.
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Summary: The Artistry and emotion in these photos is Inspiring
Review: Until a Local News Station reported the protesting of the works, and photos by the Artist Jock Sturges, I had not herd of either. I ordered the book that night to see what all the hoopla was about. After reading the book, and shairing the Imiges with my Family we were pleasantly amazed. In some of the imiges, I felt a cannection, with the honesty and integrity of the Personnallity being photografed. There are no Masks here. It is Genuin. These are not just models poseing for someone with a camera. The Photografer in some way reached inside these people and capured something rearly sean even by the models themselves. Four of my favorites are on pages 42, 44, 45, and 47. The Artistry and Emotion captured in these imiges is Inspireing.
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Summary: the human body vs. pornography (sponsored by ignorance)
Review: ya know,i've seen this book,almost as many times as i've seen quite confusing reports of child pornography.... see,i also know the difference between pornography and the human body.most american('t)s have this wierdness about them that the human body IS pornography,but i wasn't censored on my way out of the womb...however,they DID cover me up,because it was late march,and cold.but that's not the point.the point is you cannot call art pornographic just because you have personal issues with the human body.for pornography,something MUST BE GOING ON.in mr.sturges's photography,there's no movement that you don't create yourself,and that's what makes either art or pornography. incidentally,mr.sturges's model "misty dawn" has so much going on in her eyes,i wrote and recorded a song entitled,"misty dawn",which actually captures what i mean(it's an instrumental).i don't become inspired by porn models,it's just something that doesn't happen....so how do you explain that?
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