BERLIN, DE—If there's one thing most fans of adult content can agree on, it's that a nude woman well-captured on film is worth her weight in... well, something very valuable, which leaves out all the cryptocurrencies. But value is exactly what Goliath Books' new release, New Fashion Nudes, delivers; in fact, 271 pages of it, containing 240 nude and erotic, no, e:r:o:t:i:c photographs; the kind that grow on a person s:l:o:w:l:y and s:e:n:s:u:a:l:l:y.
Indeed; this high-quality volume features different photographers like Collin and Jessica Stark, Andrew Kuykendall, James Beddoes, Ellen Stagg, Marc Van Dalen and about a dozen more, all displaying their unpretentious, casual approach to e:r:o:t:i:c photography. The superficially unarranged, spontaneous or happenstance pictures convey the new subtle form of e:r:o:t:i:c:i:s:m in the ages of Facebook and Instagram. One could almost say their influences can be seen in the images of such well-known adult sensualists as David Hamilton, all the way to the directness of a Calvin Klein campaign, and even in the bodysuit photography of American Apparel catalogs. It's h:o:t e:r:o:t:i:c mental cinema at its best, displayed in this volume despite the masking requirements of today’s social media sites.
What's well on display here is the spontaneity of the candid and the accidental, which produces an orchestrated and arranged pseudo-random photography, a style readers will be more used to seeing in the performing arts as well as in fashion photography. These pictures may appear to have accidental framing, imperfect lighting and even occasional color faults, but the overall effect is of natural-looking models in everyday situations, delivering an unpretentious, casual and lascivious take on e:r:o:t:i:c photography. Think of it as a subversive backlash to the worldwide spreading of conservatism and to the new puritanism induced by too many of the Internet’s global players.
More information about New Fashion Nudes can be found on Goliath Books' website here.
