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Summary: The best Jock Sturges book
Review: This book is the book to have if you enjoy Jock Sturges's work. If you are not familiar with the photographers work after seeing this book you will be an ardant fan.
Black and white photography at its best. The subjects draw you into the photos and enchant you with their beauty and honesty.
It is a book you will revisit often and leave you waiting in anticipation for Jock's next book.
Well worth the price.
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Summary: Better than Last Day of Summer
Review: This book provides a good overview of the works of Jock Sturges. There are some photos here from his other books such as The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities.As a photographer, his technique is very good. However he only use one style of photography and all his photos are in grey-tone and not in colour. Compared to other studies of nude photography, the many of the models of Jock Sturges are plain-looking and it shows in his photographs. Among his more attractive models, he is only able to partially brings out their beauty in his photographs.
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Summary: MAGNIFIC ART BOOK
Review: THIS IS A EXAMPLE OF FOTOGRAPHY ART WHITOUT MITS AND PRE-CONCEPTS . BEAUTIFUL IMAGES , PERFECT TECHNICAL WORK ,WE NEEDS MORE PEOPLES LIKE JOCK STURGES TO THE NEW CENTURY
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Summary: The definitive Jock Sturges monograph
Review: This is by far the best collection of Sturges' work in publication. Unlike the previous Aperture monographs, it displays the images as the artist intended. It follows his chronology, and that of the models, so you can see how they developed over time from young women and men; through their teens, to adults raising their own families. Telling their stories as well as painting their portraits. He portrays them with the familiarity and intimacy of one who is almost family himself; and captures their characters as well as their forms. It is wonderful to watch how the girls and their families grow over time, how they change and develop. One wishes to know more about them as people, to understand the story behind the pictures. His models, though nude, are more comfortable in that state than most people are clothed. There are no clothes, no outside trappings, to get in the way of the full expression of the person. The people he photographs are relaxed and peaceful. His work is free of gimmicks, of artificial tension, of blatant eroticism. It is all about beauty and innocence. He has received numerous accusations of child pornography and exploitation from narrow-minded and perverse individuals. One only needs to look at his work to dispel all notions of such. Only the most twisted and sick-minded person could find his work pornographic. As a Christian, I find it to be a wonderful expression of the beauty of God's greatest creation. The tones of his images are mostly soft, low-contrast. The beach images reflect in sand and sea the same light gradations and textures visible on the bodies of those he photographs; the models seeming to become a part of their environment, but still standing out from the background. Others are more contrasty, both in tone and setting, complimenting rather than echoing the models. The printing is exquisite. Having attended two gallery shows of Sturges' work, and seen the prints, I can say that the book, though it can't reproduce the richness of the tones of the silver prints, does admirably in approximating them. The quality of the binding is superb; and the introductory texts are well-worth reading. A book that i highly recommend for all lovers of find photography.
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Summary: The full vision of the families
Review: This is Sturges' greatest work, and not least because it completes the catalogue of his friends and their families. Flawlessly printed from 8X10 contact silver gelatin prints, this shows the other pictures of the subjects we felt like we knew from the previous two books,often running us through 5 or 10 years of a model's life in as many pages. This work is important, because hiding something away empowers it- in a society where nudity between ages 6 and 18 is considered somehow wrong, it is no wonder we have so many perverts. Take away the thrill of the forbidden, and just enjoy the peaceful, respectful portraits in this 200 page retrospective. Their bodies are not the problem- your mind is.
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Summary: A Collector's Edition
Review: This title is sure to be a collector's item when it sells out. It is the largest collection of some of Sturges' best work
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Summary: Not perfect but a lot of good work here
Review: This was my first Jock Sturges book so I wasn't completely sure what to expect. I found it to be generally very well done with few pictures that were particularly erotic even though most were of nudes (generally of girls or women). I sometimes thought that the composition and lighting were a little odd (off centered or speck in the distance shots for example)but most poses were good. I especially liked the way Sturges showed some of his subjects as they aged through the years from childhood to womanhood. I do wish that the photo titles and dates were on the same page instead of on a separate paper, that made for very inconvenient reading having to constantly refer back and forth. Much better photographer than David Hamilton.
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Summary: Beautiful photography, very little to complain about.
Review: You'll find some very good photography here, nothing pornographic and mostly well composed. Some of the pictures do seem to me to be oddly posed or taken at too great a distance but basically you've got a great book if you get it.
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