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Summary: At a distance
Review: Brilliant! The photographer has given a personal insight into the world of adult cinema. These photographs, obviously taken under difficult circumstances, are strong. The perspective, the personal things an artist brings to a document, is big on poise, honesty, clarity and plenty of detachment. Says alot about the photographer as well!
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Summary: At a distance
Review: Brilliant! The photographer has given a personal insight into the world of adult cinema. These photographs, obviously taken under difficult circumstances, are strong. The perspective, the personal things an artist brings to a document, is big on poise, honesty, clarity and plenty of detachment. Says alot about the photographer as well!
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Summary: Buy only if you're not offended by gay porno film
Review: I bought this book thinking that it would give a behind-the-scene look at the pornographic film industry. I did not expect it to be about a GAY porno film set.Many of the photos are fairly well taken in a documentary style and a few even managed to inject a bit of humour into the work of the cast and supporting crew, like a "gay" actor jerking off with a copy of Penthouse. Another "funny" photo shows a crew member looking away as two naked male actors hugged and French-kiss passionately off the camera. However most of the photos show how seriously the crew treat their work. But be warned, buy this book only if male homosexual pornography does not offend you. Otherwise, stay away.
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Summary: Finally, something interesting...
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I thought the photographer caught not only some beautiful images, but a kind of poignancy that is often missed or overlooked when dealing with this subject matter. Other photographers have exploited the titillating aspects of the adult film industry, but this Photographer seemed to see so much more in the material. Surface beauty certainly, but also a more textured, living aspect.. as if to remind us that these are not only icons but humans.. I bought several (10 in fact) as gifts..Really quite Brilliant..
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Summary: Desire, Art, and Porn
Review: In this "postmodern" age, the art-porn work of Ken Probst mixes "high" (art) and "low" (porn) in beautifully provocative ways. this book of art/porn will suprise and delight the senses -- the sight of the flesh and the touch of the glossy pages. All of the images leave the viewer wanting more, which is a good thing ... it produces desire ... I want more, always more.
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Summary: art/porn
Review: in this *postmodern* age, the art-porn work of probst mixes the *high* (art) and *low* (porn) in beautifully provocative ways. this book of art/porn will suprise and delight the senses -- the sight of the flesh and the touch of the glossy pages.
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Summary: Probst's Look at Pornography
Review: Ken Probst's take on the porn industry is fresh, fascinating and funny. Not your typical photo-documentary book. This book is filled with the awkward moments and mechanics involved in making pornographic films, as seen by Probst's ironic eye. Well worth it.
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Summary: Probst's Look at Pornography
Review: Ken Probst's take on the porn industry is fresh, fascinating and funny. Not your typical photo-documentary book. This book is filled with the awkward moments and mechanics involved in making pornographic films, as seen by Probst's ironic eye. Well worth it.
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Summary: DON'T WAIST YOUR TIME!
Review: Oh yea, the money... Bad pictures, no text, boring book!
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Summary: Shooting behind the scenes on pornographic movies
Review: When I lived in New York I specialized in shooting "behind the scenes" at the fashion collections in New York, Paris, and Milan. I was drawn to the combination of beauty and chaos which I found there. After moving to San Francisco, in 1993 I was given the assignment to shoot a series of photos on gay life in the Bay Area. As I had recently met a guy who directed pornographic movies, I thought that it would be interesting to see what really went on behind the scenes. He agreed to let me come on a set for a day, though he was besieged by people asking him if they could just watch [a request he normally refused]. Shooting on his set was remarkably similar to being at a fashion show, there was the same sense of camaraderie, of shared secrets, of being "different." There was also the unspoken sense of urgency and doom should the models fail to perform. There was, of course, one significant difference, which was that instead of glamour being "manufactured," sex was the commodity being sold there. I loved the photos that came out of that shoot. They seemed to me to be: sexy, funny, sad, voyeuristic, elegant, sometimes all at the same time. I had grown weary of seeing the same old simplistic, idealized nudes that everyone else seemed to be producing, photos that seemed to say that having a pumped-up, shaved gym body was the pinnacle of human achievement. Especially since the advent of AIDS most of us realize that looking sexually attractive is not the unmixed blessing it had once appeared. I was hooked. All my friends clamored to come along as unpaid "assistants" just to see what it was like. While it was impossible to grant them this, I could share my experiences with them through my work. Since then, I have tried to show the whole gamut of porno. Most of the image were taken on gay sets, but that is only because that is what I had the best access to [San Francisco being the gay-porn capital of the world]. I have also shot on several straight sets [through the kindness of Nina Hartley and Michael Zen], a she-male video [directed by the delightful Karen Dior], and a "Bear" video, featuring 8 large, hirsute men in a SOMA loft.
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