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Summary: SENSUAL AND ALLURING
Review: A large wonderful book, filled with elegant black and white images that celebrate the female form. Full page photos that are a delight to the eye, and pleasing to the mind. Much softer than Kroll or Stuart; these photos leave something for the imagination to digest.
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Summary: Natural representation of human body
Review: A simple representation of humans' body as the way Human Being naturally be itself. Eroticism is not the primary issue for Jonvelle's works. The texture of the photography and the natural exposure of human bodies to the light environment are just perfect. Needly to say, this is the work for whom has subtle taste. If you are looking for something that is pure eroticism, this might not be the book for you. You must check out Jovelle's works first before you know you like it or not.
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Summary: Natural representation of human body
Review: A simple representation of humans' body as the way Human Being naturally be itself. Eroticism is not the primary issue for Jonvelle's works. The texture of the photography and the natural exposure of human bodies to the light environment are just perfect. Needly to say, this is the work for whom has subtle taste. If you are looking for something that is pure eroticism, this might not be the book for you. You must check out Jovelle's works first before you know you like it or not.
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Summary: Beautiful b&w photos, beautiful printing
Review: As I'm beginning to expect from Konemann, this book matches the extremely high quality printing and beauty of their books. I bought the book because it is so beautiful, and not so much because of the actual content of the photographs. It's a photographic work -- apart from some "introductory" text in English and German, the book is filled with large black and white photographs with no captions or text. Most of the photos are full page, with the occasional two-page photo, and a fold-out section in the middle. All of the photographs are of women -- sensual, mildly erotic. Heterosexual males will probably find the book very attractive.
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Summary: Too ordinary
Review: both in term of expression, technique, and print quality. For those who enjoy casual photos of semi-naked girls, this may be the reason for buying. The models are not particularly attractive, I would say. The print, again, can probably be done in our own darkroom.
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Summary: Too ordinary
Review: both in term of expression, technique, and print quality. For those who enjoy casual photos of semi-naked girls, this may be the reason for buying. The models are not particularly attractive, I would say. The print, again, can probably be done in our own darkroom.
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Summary: Keep Cover Closed
Review: Following a long line of photographers known for creative and original approaches to the female form, Jean-Francois Jonvelle photographs as though he is in the wrong line. Unlike fellow countrymen Jeanloup Sieff and Patrick Demarchelier - both masters in photographing the nude - Jonvelle's images are sophomoric, lacking in sensuality, poetry, originality, and subtlety. The photographs are simply trite, at best. Jonvelle's attempts at titillation or playfulness are far from eliciting a joie de vivre but instead, translate easily into the mundane. There is one positive note in regard to this debacle of derrieres: the book is thin.
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Summary: You people don't "get" it.
Review: For all the people that severely criticized this book, you just didn't "get" it. It was not his style or intention to take pictures that are amazing in sharpness, focus, stunning print quality. .etc. What jonvelle tried to capture was that sense of mystery, natural allure, and spontanety of sensual women. The pictures are supposed to be casual and unpolished--that's the look he wanted. If you want tons of minute detail, go buy an Ansel Adam book or something. Seriously, it's like complaining about Monet, Degas, and Renoir's paintings being "unrealistic."
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Summary: He Tries Too Hard
Review: I love the visual style of this book. The large, grainy photos break almost every rule of conventional photography. It ends a voyeuristic reality to the book that's delightful. However, his models ruin it. They, in most of the pictures, are too aware of the camera, they play up to it. This turns the book into something I'd expect to see as a B&W spread in Penthouse. The images in which he and the models relaxed and quit trying to make a photograph are wonderful. Unfortunately, there are only about ten of these images in the entire book. It's an interesting look into the genre.
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Summary: He Tries Too Hard
Review: I love the visual style of this book. The large, grainy photos break almost every rule of conventional photography. It ends a voyeuristic reality to the book that's delightful. However, his models ruin it. They, in most of the pictures, are too aware of the camera, they play up to it. This turns the book into something I'd expect to see as a B&W spread in Penthouse. The images in which he and the models relaxed and quit trying to make a photograph are wonderful. Unfortunately, there are only about ten of these images in the entire book. It's an interesting look into the genre.
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