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Book Reviews of 100 Naked Girls
Book Review: 98 of the whitest women in the world
Summary: 2 Stars
Hegre has some amazing skills and amazing talent working for him, but unfortunetly not much of either is shown here. Even the breathtaking Marketa looks undirected and bored beyond belief. Save the money and take a free tour of his website. You will get better quality.Book Review: A catalogue of beauty
Summary: 4 Stars
I had this book on order for a long time before in became available (I actually went to Amazon's UK arm to get it). It is of good quality, though one really shouldn't expect some profound artistic work. It is a popularised topic of interest now (the female nude). What Hegre does it to capture the 'Venus Naturalis', or as he calls it 'The New Nude', natural beauty without embellishments; photographic realism isn't really conducive to 'high art' in the traditional sense, and surrealist photography died out long ago.
The Profundity is in the simplicity, the justice is in the unadulterated gaze.
Having tried to sound sophisticated, it should be pointed out that this is more just like a catalogue of images; think of it as a 'sampler'. They are all gorgeous women, of whom Petter has a lot more photos on his website, as well as having a few books dedicated to individual Models. To my knowledge there is three out (not including the first wife's one which seems to be out of print) and another one coming out in a month or two (which is of my all-time favourite model!). But in any case, if you don't have any books of hegre's work, this is the best one to start with, and if you are a collector of his books (among other of his works) then this is a must for his collection. It won't be the best book of his career, but it is still better than most!
Book Review: A prolonged, full color (except one shot) calendar tribute to beautiful models from A to Z
Summary: 3 Stars
My review is based on the recent Amphoto Books hardcover edition of the Petter Hegré book "100 Naked Girls".
The size of the book is 210x270x20mm (w/h/t) which is the smallest suitable size for this kind of photo book, still giving area for the picture. Design by Weiss-Grafik & Buchgestaltung, Freiburg, Germany and printed in Singapore. Pages are bound and it will mechanically endure normal wear.
The pages are not numbered, which is very inconvenient and impractical (there are some 190 pages in all, with two to five photos per book opening). Nor are there any indexes or actual bibliography. The very, very, very light forewords are written by writer Clifford Thurlow from U.K.
The models, or pairs of models (or even more) are arranged alphabetically in the book. (from 001 Alexia to 100 Zalina) Each model is portrayed in one to four photos. The girls are very beautiful and that forms perhaps the single strength or substance of this work. The poses, or most thereof are sadly very typical of the commercial genre of professional erotic photography. Workshop pin-up wall calendars is what springs to mind. (and the title does not help)
Mr. Hegré is a young and very productive originally Scandinavian photographer, alas very commercial. I personally wish the curator, or the photographer himself could have picked the very exceptional photographic work out of the mass of photographs for this book. This is not the authors first book and probably not his last. On the other hand perhaps this book is directed more at the customers of the Hegré website erotic picture archives?
Be how it may, there are a few of the photos I'd like to creatively commend but can't as there are no page or picture numbers....
Book Review: As seen on the Web
Summary: 4 Stars
Interesting piece of work, with Petter Hegre's quality. High quality printing and presentation. The only downside of the product, looks no different from the material from Hegre you can see in the Web for free.Book Review: Astounding photography. Artistic and moving.
Summary: 5 Stars
Nudity. What does it evoke? Sexuality? Freedom? Familiarity? Comfort? The human as abstract? Hegre captures all of these in this book through a series of portraits of different young women posing nude.
While a few images are clearly erotic, not all are. Ellen (#23) strikes a very pose which produces an almost abstract piece of photographic artwork. Ingrid, #33, poses in a work that inspires a sense of playful freedom. Kristina, #47, stretches out in joy. Lza's (#57) tatoos make for almost disturbing art. The second portrait of Sabina (#76) evokes a greater sense of familiarity and comfort than anything else, and so forth. In each image, one is absorbed and subsumed into a world which evokes emotions. Sometimes sexuality is a part of those emotions but often it is not.
The composition in the images is always excellent. There's a reason why Hegre's art is highly acclaimed. He's a real master.