Naked New York

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Summary: Wow, this is truely a cool idea for a book of photos
Review: I heard about this book from a friend on the net. And he was right, this is a really cool look at people's most intimate side. Ordinary people, first clothed, than naked. It's like everyone in your office suddenly took their clothes off for a day. It's human curiosity satisfied. Definitely worth buying.

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Summary: This Book is like a Car Wreck on the Hiway!
Review: I really enjoyed this book! The photos are of average people from 19 to 90. First dressed and then naked, with no special touches. Its like a car wreck. You knwo you should look away, and yet you have to look. Disturbing and yet fascinating.

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Summary: Dull and Repetitious.
Review: I was looking for Spencer Tunick's work, and somehow this book came up in the search instead. I wasn't careful enough looking at the description, comments, etc. So, I ended up buying it.

Aside from the disappointment of not getting what I was hoping for, I find this book rather boring and monotonous. Of course, this could have been author's intention to put all the subjects into a similar setting and underline the idea that these are ordinary people from the streets, however this doesn't make these images any more compelling or interesting for myself. I still find the book dull and repetitious. And it was twice the disappointment for myself.

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Summary: the whole truth
Review: One reason I bought this book was because it is something different out there. These photographs, as ordinary as they may be (techniclly speaking), the content itself captures the truth people know about, just don't ever talk about. It isn't even about being naked after the first page or so. Society as a whole is being displayed in a manner which is the exact opposite of what we begin teaching at a young age. Gender roles and social status are cut loose in naked NYC as well as Naked LA. In order to understand the cultures people are living in one must start from the beginning. Being naked it seems is the logical place to start. You'd be surprised at what you might learn. People carry secrets with them forever. The artist was capturing something so rarely seen in individuals. And I stress the word individuals, because we see each other as a mass population. People are so vulnerable, a characteristic present in all of humans but sometimes never even brought out.

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Summary: Sometimes there really are new ideas in photography
Review: Picking up Naked New York for the first time, I expected some nice B&W photos, perhaps even some edgy, fringe of the village stuff, but I did not expect to see something I have never thought off before. His idea is simple, that all of us wonder what other people look like naked. His book is a series of excellent photographs of average people, seeming as if they had just walked in off the street, first clothed and then naked. Greg Friedler knows one of man's dark secrets, that we all feel we are hiding something. Seeing the same people you met on the street, you eat next to in restraunts, you work beside...naked, is truely a revelation

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Summary: Rhis book should never have been published
Review: The one word that best discribes this book is "monotonous" (as defined in Webster's - tediously repetitious, lacking variety). Every image is identical to the previous one, the only exception being the person posing. Save your money buy a book with at least a little variey unless you're an insomniac in neeed of something to bore you to sleep.

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Summary: How did I get into this
Review: When I read the add for models, "normal" models, that is. I wondered what I was getting myself into. After speaking to Greg I decided to look at his previous work. NNY was stark yes fascinating. Just image after image of humans, at once all different and eerily similar. Faces staring towards a lens asking not to lust after them or admire them but merely to look. I did. I will be looking out from the pages of 'Naked LA " due out in November. Don't ask why. Gregory

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Summary: Naked NY is like a Car Wreck...
Review: You look at these people and photos, and your first reaction is, "I should not be looking at this." But you can't look away! They are fascinating despite the fact that they are not, for the most past, beautiful. Like a car wreck, you know you should just drive by, but you can't help but look. I would like to see Greg Friedler try a similiar project, but limit himself to black men , or latino men, or homeboys, and also include 4 or 6 shots of each subject -- dressed and naked -- front, back, side, and energetic. I hope he listens to me. He has a LOT of talent and promise.