My Wife

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Summary: sad
Review: I expected so much more from Petter. But these images are all the same. Maybe if more photos were in color, it would be interesting but it isn't. Luba is a much better book.

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Summary: Loving tribute to wife and to love
Review: I found this book to be a wonderfully erotic, yet honest and loving pictoral of the author's wife. It has sparked interesting discussions from anyone I have shown it to. It illustrates the beauty of the average female (not the supermodel) and it documents some of the wonders of love and making love.

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Summary: they do have a cat.
Review: Its an interesting book with a certain sense of voyeurism, as if one is viewing private photographs belonging to someone else. This is probably so because many of the images display a snapshot quality; which in itself may not be a bad thing. However, I'm not convinced that all the photographs in this book were taken with cameras worth $100 or less as the author claims, especially when the model is holding a $1800 medium format camera in one of the shots. I also did not find much merit in the three nipple shot.

This book may or may not float your boat. For me, it has required me to reconsider at how I delineate the lines between ponography and artistic commentary and and ultimately, good taste.

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Summary: My Wife
Review: My Wife is a wonderful book. Certain photos were unbelievably intimate and mesmerizing. There were others that were too "snap shot" quality for my personal taste. I think that the female body is very beautiful but seeing numerous photos of the same gentalia is a little monotonous. There is a second woman in a few of the photos who is unidentified. Hegre's wife and the second woman are in several photos in a sexual manner which does break up the boringness of the layout. I do realize that I concentrated on the negative aspects of the book, but overall it is a good book and I would recommend it to others.

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Summary: I like it so much I wrote a review
Review: The book has nothing but pictures and captures genuine moments of a couple's life. I found it highly erotic, daring and authentic. The author and his wife are very courageous to publish their private moments and it is well worth encouragement. Besides, she is stunningly beautiful. I hope they come up with another book! I liked it so much I took the time to write a review. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: This man needs to edit
Review: There are some great photos in here and then some so-so ones. I found that flipping through this book became boring. After a while, seeing the same woman with her legs around her ears starts to get old. I guess that's what marriage is all about, but I'm not married to her. My real complaint is the over abundance of simaler images. Some of these pictures are better than the others. She's a beautiful woman, but less is more.

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Summary: Just 1000 Words?
Review: What do you get when a competent photographer marries an attractive lady and both share an European morality as it pertains to sex? Well for any who are in an intimate relationship with another person who doesn't require being periodically filled with air, some of these images are very familiar (maybe too familiar) in a post-polaroid age of digital photography. Petter Hegre has just about raised the bar as high as it goes in terms of this subject matter and his wife must be viewed as co-artist in the very least. Whatever Hegre's intent, the resulting response from this work would be understated as being provocative. One underlying question which stands above others is this: are these images and behavior depicted natural to all the parties or are they staged for the camera? I really don't buy into Hegre's explanation that 'this is the way my wife is.' Another issue for questioning is when does the private cease to be private? If made public, as Hegre does, then it is no longer private. Is this an invasion, an invitation to similar behavior, or simply 'I can do better porn that the pornographers?' If the mind had a camera attached, I'm sure many of us have similar images recorded and Hegre's work may keep our attention by it's familiarity, but, that familiarity can also be turned to contempt as easily as acknowledgement. My 3-stars are for effort and provocative content, but also for this book's nature being such it should not be shelved in a prominent place in the home.