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This book represents 100 of the finest and most fascinating examples of body-centred photography from the 20th century. Art photographers included are Stieglitz, Man Ray, Brassai, Cunningham, Brandt and Mapplethorpe, alongside greats of scientific image-making like Nilsson and Hutchings.

Photography has been widely accepted as an art form for several years, with museums on the subject in every major American and European city. Nude art photography takes a special position in this development. The human body has been a subject of art for centuries. As with other art forms, nude art photography explores the borders of the medium. The focus in this book is on the aesthetic. The Body contains photos from the international collection of The Gallery of Esthetic Photography (GEP). The GEP holds the largest collection of nude art photography in Europe. Featured photographers include the Spanish celebrity photographer Miquel Arnal. His black and white personal work is rich in contrast and evokes feelings of bewilderment. German born Klaus Kampert uses dancers as his models. Perfect lighting and an eye for detail and composition result in top class images with abstract characteristics. At the other end of the spectrum is the work of the Argentinean photographer Walter Bosque. He positions his models in dramatic environmental settings resulting in stark contrasts, for instance that of white skin and burned forest.

A long-overdue appreciation of America''s favorite piece of clothing, "The Blue Jean" celebrates the denim craze with 135 color and black-and-white documentary, fashion, and art photos.

An enthralling portrait of the Bloomsbury Group s key figures told through a rich collection of intimate photographs

This text reprints all 363 colour plates from Braun and Hogenberg's survey of town maps, city views and plans of Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America, with dozens of unusual details, two folding maps, as well as selected extracts from the original text and an in-depth commentary.

Todos lo sabemos: el tamaño no importa, lo que importa es la habilidad; o dicho de otra manera: lo que importa es la calidad y no la cantidad. Pero admitámoslo: un pene grande impresiona y, no solo impresiona, al contrario que otros prototipos fisicos (que si hombros grandes, que si delgado, que si cachas, etc.) un pene grande nunca pasa de moda. Si tenemos en cuenta que solo un 2% de la poblacion masculina mundial ostenta el record de 20 cm., es evidente que un accesorio de ese tamaño resultara siempre perturbador, cuando no sorprendente. En este volumen, complementario de nuestro famoso The Big Book of Breasts, exploramos un fenomeno que durante siglos ha fascinado tanto a hombres como a mujeres: el pene XL. 400 fotos de archivos historicos, en su mayoria de la decada de los 70, incluidas las del legendario John Holmes ilustran este singular volumen. Bob Mizer fotografo del legendario Athletic Model Guild; David Hurles del Old Reliable, Colt, Falcon, Sierra Domino, Third World, y Champion Studios, todos estos profesionales nos hablan de su trabajo y sus modelos. Y como si esto fuera poco... el libro culmina con una agradable sorpresa comparable solo a la foto de Norma Stitz del Guinness Book of Records! Que apareciera en nuestro The Big Book of Breasts.

Algunos la llaman la obsesión americana, pero los hombres de todo el mundo se rinden al poder hipnótico de un pecho grande y bien formado. En The Big Book of Breasts, Dian Hanson explora los orígenes de la fascinacion por los senos grandes a traves de tres decadas de desnudos naturales. El libro arranca con la pechomania de la Segunda Guerra Mundial que dio lugar a Russ Meyer, El forajido de Howard Hughes y la marca de lenceria Fredericks of Hollywood. A partir de ahi, Dian nos guia por, alrededor y entre las peligrosas curvas de modelos como Michelle Angelo, Candy Barr, Virginia Bell, Joan Brinkman, Lorraine Burnett, Lisa De Leeuw, Uschi Digard, Candye Kane, Jennie Lee, Sylvia McFarland, Margaret Middleton, Paula Page, June Palmer, Roberta Pedon, Rosina Revelle, Candy Samples, Tempest Storm, Linda West, June Wilkinson, Julie Wills y docenas mas, incluida Norma Stitz, poseedora del record Guinness de los senos naturales mas grandes del mundo. Las 396 paginas de este libro contienen las fotos mas bellas y provocativas jamas realizadas a estas mujeres iconicas, ademas de nueve entrevistas originales, incluidas las primeras a Tempest Storm y Uschi Digard en mas de una decada, y la ultima a Candy Barr antes de su prematura muerte en 2005. En un mundo en el que la silicona se ha convertido en la norma, estas espectaculares mujeres de carne y hueso son la prueba de que la naturaleza es sabia.

Tying in with the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road , this is a lavishly illustrated celebration of the Beat Generation. In many ways the Beats set the tone for the pop-culture developments of the 1950s and 60s, but their role has in many ways been overlooked. But now, with the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Kerouac''s On the Road , and with Francis Ford Coppola''s film of the book in production their pivotal role is finally being given the recognition it deserves. The Beats sets out to play a part in that process, offering a fascinating, fast-moving account of the key people and events from Beat history. The story takes the reader below the bland surface of 1950s America, into a seething, subterranean world of creative experimentation and rebellion against conventional lifestyles. From their love of jazz to their experiments with drugs, and from their later discovery of Buddhism to their canonization of the restless, impulsive Neal Cassady, the book brings the Beat generation to life in full, glorious technicolour. The Beats is the first ever comprehensive, fully illustrated treatment of this key period in cultural history. Packed with more than 200 photos and items of memorabilia, it also features interviews with figures such as Carolyn Cassady and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.