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Summary: Elegant but cold,innovative but repetetive.
Review: Elegant but cold.Innovative but repetetive.I've been waiting for this book to get published for two years.Finally,I am holding it in my hands.Somehow I can't help but feeling dissapointed.Roversi was obviously trying to show the fragile,soft and very intimate side of his young models.However,all of them are presented in exactly the same manner.Yes, Roversi's idea of creating transparent,soft almost ghost-like image of a female is nice,and yes it works beautifully with tall,thin boy -like women.But by the end of the book i could not help but feeling that I have been looking at the collection of female shapes,which look like pattern because of the identical technique and composition. Don't let me put you off,even if this book won't blow your mind it's still a wonderful example of taste and style.However ,those of you who have seen Roversi's work for italian Vogue will know that this extremely tallented artist is capable of much more.
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Summary: Perfect mix of sensuality and innocence
Review: I ordered this book two years ago after seeing a preview of it in a British magazine. It has at long last been published and it was well worth the wait. Paolo Roversi masterfully captures a perfect mix of sensuality and innocence with these portraits, which have a wonderful sketch-like quality. Roversi's technique places the emphasis on the face and hair, including pubic, while washing out the rest of the body to give his subjects an ethereal, ghostly quality. The list of models reads like a who's who of the current fashion runway set, including Kate Moss, Milla Jovovich, Amber Valletta, Shalom Harlow, Trish Goff, Stella Tennant, Guinevere Van Seenus, Kristen McMenamy, Michelle Hicks, Angela Lindvall and Karen Elson. Thus we have women who made a name for themselves by wearing clothes presented in ultimate contrast with astonishing results. Roversi and his models should be proud of what they have accomplished with "Nudi." This is a beautiful book.
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Summary: Pretty but lame or pretty lame?
Review: I waited almost two years for this book to come out. I purchased it as a christmas present to myself, at first look I was gravely disappointed. I held out to write a review because I wasn't sure if it was the wait I didn't like or the book. Well two months later I can tell you it was the book. The theme gets really old really quick. After you look at one photo there isn't much sense in turning the page, beacuse the next photo looks the exact same! An uninterested model standing nude with the camera set on over expose. Big Deal. I would like to add that it is a beautifully bound book. I wish some of my other books were as nicely assembled. I'm going to assume that is were most of the cost comes from.
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Summary: Wishing it had some text!
Review: It's a good book, But it doesn't have any Text Whatsoever, Apart from that, It's Good!
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Summary: Not great but very good.
Review: Not much of a theme (aside from nude models). You get the sense he more wanted to publish a book of many of the current top models(Fall of 1999). And not so in making a photographic statement. The photos are also developed in a very pale (annoying) form. I guess to give the illusion of art? Too bad really. Photography doesn't need to be about art. Just interesting. And interesting this book is. Beautiful current top models.. who can you go wrong? Whether it's Devon Aoki thinking she's the Venus. Audrey Marnay and her over-exaggerated scared expression. Milla looking like she just woke up. Kristen Owen and her show stealing "out of the shower" look. Or Tasha Tilberg just standing there. Where Paolo lacks a theme, the models improvise, some better than others. But all beautiful. Over forty pages! Well over 30 different models! Worth checking out if you like fashion.
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Summary: Just Superb
Review: On the face of it, very simple pictures; think more, doing this technically is not easy. It is also hard to take them in an artistic manner, with nothing to pose with - no clothes, color, background, shoes, decorations, nothing. An admirable attempt on artist expression on simplistic view.
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Summary: A simplistic view of photo expression & technique
Review: On the face of it, very simple pictures; think more, doing this technically is not easy. It is also hard to take them in an artistic manner, with nothing to pose with - no clothes, color, background, shoes, decorations, nothing. An admirable attempt on artist expression on simplistic view.
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Summary: Painterly Light,
Review: Paolo Roversi is a master photographer and this monograph of work shows why. His magical portraits of famous models more familiar to us from the pages of Vogue extends to us the progression of photography. Roversi clevely use photographic techniques that result in lush, translucent images that are attractive and senuous.Creamy Pale, almost washed out black and white pictures with soft tones and gossamer texture. He has captured an incredible intimacy that reveals to the viewer the sheer beauty of human form, naked. This Master Italian photographer's resultant work is immative of, and reminds us of The great Italian Rennaisance Masters' sketches and drawings but that in no way diminishes the sheer beauty of the work. The images in their light, almost washed out form, work wonderfully. The models gaze at us with a conniving innocence, there is no background to clutter the image, just simplistic, yet emotively powerful posing. The poses contrast with the texture of the pictures, no attempt at "classical" figurative posing, yet the models still reveal the body as a beautiful form. Roversi's work is internationally famous especially his beautiful editorial work for Italian Vogue, and his advertising campaigns for various fashion houses and he has worked with many of these models before. Here in this collection we are not looking at fashion but art and it is interesting to note that fashion models today are lending themselves to more and more art inspired projects. Roversi has a distinct approach to photography and this monograph is another salutation to a man whose influence in the art world transcends his own discipline. This is a book to buy and treasure.
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Summary: Not for the main stream crowd
Review: Some twenty to thrity pages of washed out frontal nude shots of women set against a stark white backdrop, this is not for someone wanting plain pretty pictures of Playboy variety. There's often little variety in the poses (standing front, side and sometimes back, leaning over a little) and no action - on the other hand I found that very aspect accented the minute differences in women. Indeed, just glancing through it it's easy to see how wide a variety of body shapes and faces are presented - at least in subtle differences. Overall, for people who like "experimental photography", who are explorers of the obscure, who are willing to spend money on the unusual and risk loss, not necessarily for main stream nudie picture fans. If he branched out into a wider somatotypology (all these gals are thin model types) I might buy another, but for me this fulfilled all the interest I have in this style. See the provided front picture for what you basically get throughout.
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Summary: simplistic views complex beauty
Review: The images in this book reflect the female form is a state of grace and all our beauty. With no borders; clothing, colour or objects the images captured reflect simplicity of form with an "individual" essence.
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