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Photography Books
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| Bert Stern, the famous commercial and fashion photographer of the 60s, was the last to be granted a sitting by Marilyn Monroe six weeks before her tragic death. The three-day session yielded nearly 2,600 pictures—fashion, portrait, and nude studies—of indescribable sensual and human vibrancy, of which no more than 20 were published. And yet these few photographs ineradicably shaped our image of Marilyn Monroe. This book presents the complete set of 2,571 photos. |
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Photography
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Around age twenty-eight, Spain-born Rafael Navarro began to develop a deep interest in photography. After his first attempts to portray the worlds of reportage, theatre, and sports, he began focussing on the field of plastic arts. | | |
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Original Paintings
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A painter, playwright, poet and author, Vasan´s art reflects very versatile themes and styles. Trained at the College of Fine Arts, Bangkok, some of his paintings are related to nature or erotic motifs, though his mind and most works are preoccupied with problems and issues, such as the exploitation of the poor by the rich and the corruption among politicians and bureaucrats. | | |
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Original Paintings
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Austrian born Spanish artist Enrique Garcia Lozano creates striking, dramatic pieces in the figurative style. The son of renowned opera conductor Maestro García Navarro, Lozano produced the exquisite Opera series in homage to his late father. The pieces vibrantly capture the intense emotional appeal of opera's great heroes and heroines. Large in scale, the works are resplendent in vivid colors and arresting metallic accents. | | |
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Herotica
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| Experience the hottest of the hot, the best of the Best Women’s Erotica series. This fearless collection covers a thrilling range of women’s sexual desires and exploits—rough, delicate, dangerous, imaginative—by writers as accomplished as Isabel Allende, Carol Queen, Cecilia Tan, Cara Bruce, and Maryanne Mohanraj. | | |
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Photography Books
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F**K-FASHION: The Erotic Photography of Ben Westwood is a celebration of this brilliant young photographer's more explicit work. Ben was born in London in 1963 and is the eldest son of Vivienne Westwood, the famous British cutting-edge fashion designer. He is a professional photographer who pursues his specific interest in erotic images of women by photographing a heady combination of stylish clothing and lingerie worn (or not) by very pretty models with admirably few inhibitions. | | |
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Limited Prints
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These exquisite limited edition screenprints are from Lorenzo González' Women series. This Spanish artist is Professor and Head of Drawing at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Salamanca. Each one more fascinating than the last, innocent yet sensual, these prints are as beautiful seen individually as they are in their group context. | | |
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Artists: Their Own Visions
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| Here for the first time in one volume are seventy of Cadmus's most stunning tributes to the male form. Cadmus continued to produce these works up until his death at age ninety-four, and this volume includes many drawings that have never been seen before. The artist's most frequent model was his lifelong partner Jon Anderson, and the drawings offer up not just an elegant fluency and technical virtuosity but also a tender emotional resonance. Introducing each era of the artist's career is an illustrated essay by respected critic and writer Justin Spring, placing Cadmus in the context of the rich history of the male nude. | | |
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Herotica
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| All of the contributors are women, of course, but since a significant number are also lesbians, bisexuals, and sadomasochists, it should come as no surprise that many of the relationships portrayed herein are unusual. | | |
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Photography Books
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| Who took 1970’s porn esthetic and made it fashion chic? Terry Richardson. Who made the trailer park trendy and the tractor hat de rigueur? Richardson again. Who’s equally at home in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Purple and Vice? Our boy Terry. Who uses his fashion money to fund an X-rated website? Yes, Richardson. And who can’t resist getting his clothes off and jumping in front of his own lens? Well, that would be Terry Richardson as well. Porn stars, supermodels, transsexuals, hillbillies, friends, pets, and celebrities all do for his lens what they’ll do for no other. And if anyone ever wonders why they did it, just blame it on Terryworld, where taboos are null and void, and fashion finds sex a perfect fit. | | |
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Original Paintings
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Graffiti were the most beautiful things I ever saw,' commented Keith. The kids who were doing it were very young and from the streets, but they had this incredible mastery of drawing which totally blew me away. I mean, just the technique of drawing with spray paint is amazing, because it's incredibly difficult to do. And the fluidity of line, and the scale, and always the hard-edged black line that tied the drawings together! It was the line I had been obsessed with since childhood! | | |
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