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Summary: Nude photography in a tiny apartment
Review: A small hardcover book (215x215x15mm) published by the Goliath Verlag and printed in Germany.
Pages (about 160) are un-numbered and all pictures are monochrome.
The opening of the book contains a small multilingual introduction by Reed Massengill briefly describing the photographer Peter Gorman and his work.All models depicted are female and in some of the photos the artist is visible either directly or via a tv-screen. However he's not nude in apartment 7 himself even if all the models are partially or completely undressed. Some of the models are present in several pictures(up to 15 photos of the same model. I find a big variation in the work. Some of the poses have a likness to views seen in adult magazines, some show definitively movement, and some have an abstract stillness to them.
Several of the photos are very interesting and many are sadly not. The book was worth studying, but for me it is not a keeper.
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Summary: A voyeur by any other name¿
Review: As a life long fan of the Sears catalog and National Geographic I can say this book gets to the point in a hurry albeit not as discreetly during my morning commute on the train.
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Summary: Dull and boring
Review: Endless collection of the same photograph, same pose, and same lighting showing little imagination. On the positive side, probably makes a good reference book if you want to take your own photographs. The black and white format adds nothing and they should have been shot in color. Add 1.5 stars if you enjoy pictures of nude women and don't really care about the photography
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Summary: Dull and boring
Review: Endless collection of the same photograph, same pose, and same lighting showing little imagination. On the positive side, probably makes a good reference book if you want to take your own photographs. The black and white format adds nothing and they should have been shot in color. Add 1.5 stars if you enjoy pictures of nude women and don't really care about the photography
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Summary: MUCH BETTER THAN HELMUT NEWTON
Review: God I love this stuff!
Wake up and smell the ...! Oops! I mean coffee. It's a brave new world out there, no time for beating around the bush,(sorry) of the sexuality of women. It is alive and well and it's about time we all started showing women off in all thier beauty. Women are not statues on a podium. They are living, breathing, sexual animals. THANK GOD!!! I, also am a fine art photographer, and I get excited when I find girls who are not afraid to show all of thier beauty. Props to Peter Gorman for a look into (his) Apartment 7. Ron P.
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Summary: Less than what I expected
Review: I had heard good reviews on this book when I received it, so I opened it with a smile - a complete open and positive mind. What I expected: Black and white erotic nude female photography with various lighting, emotional facial expressions, and classy-elegant poses in an apartment What I got instead: The only thing that I had assumed right - was the fact it was all black and white nude female photography. What I noticed about the book: The photographer sometimes uses filters to create blurring effects (not all pictures are just still photos - a lot of them have body parts intentionally blurred or the outline of their body blurred) - Not necessarily a good or bad thing, I just didn't think he did it effectively. Some turned out nice, some just looked overdone. The photos are not classy and erotic. This looks like maybe a b&w higher scale version of Hustler meets Playboy. The models are masturbating with full frontal nudity. In some cases, you see wide open legs staring at you directly on the page. Erotic? No. Sexual? Yes. You can definitely tell a man did this photography. These pictures look like they were taken with the entire intent of having a reader masturbate to them. The quality of the photos are unmistakably professional. No doubt about that. The lighting is fine, although not varied (I wish he had various lighting shots, but he seemed consistent throughout). He has a good variety of models in this book, all ethnicities including caucasian, asian, african-american, and hispanic. All expressions are basically the same. Bored. Boredom. Bored. Is this picture taken yet? Tired. Bored. What are you looking at? No smiles. No parted lips. No looks of mystery. No sadness. No anger. No contemplation. Nothing. Just boredom. I don't like the flow of the book. I am actually looking at the book now (there are no page numbers so I cannot tell you which page I am on)... but there are four pictures on this particular 2-page spread. Picture 1: On the left is a girl on her back masturbating with both hands (one on breast, one on vagina) staring at camera in boredom. Picture 2: A picture of a man brushing his teeth in the mirror (why is he in this book?) Picture 3: A girl standing up with her shirt up to her neck and her panties coming off of her with some electronic device in her right hand (is she shaving? who knows?) Picture 4: A girl with opened legs with knee high black boots sitting on a toilet seat with an opened black shirt. I had hoped for "less is more" - where it might show the curve of a nude body but not show anything. There was very little left to the imagination in this book. Open crotch shots, full frontal nudity directly in front of you. Very few photos where the model tries to cover herself for a more classy erotic shot. While this book may be an interesting browse for those with aural pleasures in mind... this is not exactly an artist's reference book for the shelves. I was highly disappointed.
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Summary: Intimacy in Apartment 7 - the vulnerable and the brash
Review: I have rarely seen nude photographs with the intimacy shown in these images. The models, dance students I believe, interact directly with the camera and also with the viewer. At their most brash they are also most vulnerable. The photographer has made something special here. He has somehow made an image of a living woman which opens that woman to our view on several levels. She is first of all and clearly alive. This is no magazine-fetish-mannikin-supermodel. This is a living, breathing woman. She is taking a pose, displaying herself for the camera; but she is also revealing herself in a way that few of us have ever seen. And yet, unlike the experience of other books of images, I do not come away with the sense that I was a voyeur, taking something. I felt like a participant, sharing something. This was a remarkable book.
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Summary: hits the sweet spot
Review: I really love this book. I am so sick of all the run of the mill glamour (...) that is out there, that it is great to see photography with some edge to it. I see more going on in these photographs of wild women than I have seen in a long time. Not for everyone, some of the models are a bit unkempt for my taste, but an extensive cross section of women. The photography has a harsh sinister look to it at times, but not in a fetishized way. I am not sure what the point of shooting in one apartment is and the photos with Gorman in them are a bit dorky, but over all this book hits the sweet spot with me
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Summary: hits the sweet spot
Review: I really love this book. I am so sick of all the run of the mill glamour (stuff) that is out there, that it is great to see photography with some edge to it. I see more going on in these photographs of wild women than I have seen in a long time. Not for everyone, some of the models are a bit unkempt for my taste, but an extensive cross section of women. The photography has a harsh sinister look to it at times, but not in a fetishized way. I am not sure what the point of shooting in one apartment is and the photos with Gorman in them are a bit dorky, but over all this book hits the sweet spot with me
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Summary: unpleasant
Review: I threw this book out into the garbage can. Somehow it did not evoke any positive emotion in me. I like beautiful images. Maybe I misunderstand something but there is really something very disturbing about this book - it is very unpleasant and it is way too explicit to be called art. I would rather label it as "porn" but I guess it does not quite make it into that category either. It is indeed my personal opinion and I AM picky but hey, that's MY review. I would rather get myself a book of beautiful Patrick Demarchelier's photos.
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