For Goliath Books, the beginning of the 21st century also marked the beginning of the “arty snapshot” era, which takes its form in part from the original amateur and travel photography of the 19th and early 20th centuries. This "arty snapshot" style became the inspiration for many of the elements used in today's advertising and artistic works—and such elements can be seen in the new volume, New Fashion Nudes.
Such "arty snapshot" pictures appear to have accidental framing, imperfect lighting and even occasional color faults. Natural-looking models are photographed, often in everyday situations, for an unpretentious, casual and lascivious take on erotic photography.
This superficially spontaneous or seemingly random photography conveys a subtle eroticism, and provides, in a sense, a subversive backlash to the spread of conservatism and the new puritanism that's recently been "discovered" by the Internet’s global players such as Facebook and Instagram. Thanks to self-proclaimed “judgment police,” there is now a growing “non-nude erotic” art form.
New Fashion Nudes presents a new, subtle eroticism—a sort of "mental cinema" at its best—despite, or perhaps due to, today’s bid for conservatism by the multi-national social media players.
This high-quality pictorial volume features a diverse group of photographers who all have one thing in common: the will to recharge artistic, voyeuristic sensitive imagery with sexual energy, while displaying absolute reality—and that's pretty damned sexy!
Artists contributing to New Fashion Nudes include James Beddoes, Viktor Cicko, Mike Dowson, Dido Fontana, Andrew Kuykendall, Marco Leonardi , Giovanni Lipari, Paolo Pamintuan, Francesco Petrucci, Ryan Pike, Splice Pictures, Ellen Stagg, Collin Stark & Jessica Stark, and Marc Van Dalen. In all, the volume contains 240 of these artists' photographs in a hardcover format.
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