Big Book of Breasts by Dian Hanson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Big Book of Breasts
Book Review: Great source book
Summary: 5 Stars
Bravo!
This is a wonderful art book. The book has a great amount of photos from the 1950's through 1980's. As an Artist I found the style, content, images to be really interesting. The ideas and pictures have more meaning as you think about society and culture during the times that the photos were taken. The photos have generated some new thoughts about my content and style for painting, drawing, and photography. Great source book for nudes, and composition of light, dark, and shadow. Would be ok for coffee table, but it is adult material. If enjoy breasts and want a large coffee table type book, this is it.
Book Review: I am scared of my own Breasts
Summary: 4 Stars
This calendar is very scary. In fact it's made me scared of my own breasts. I have it on my office wall and my colleagues are also scared. Each month I have a ceremony of Turning the Page and although only up to March am feeling rather faint already. Wow! How will I feel by December, and will I even be here to see it? For breast-lovers, be warned that you may find your fantasies become nightmares! For those more partial to legs, ankles, the nape of the neck etc, stand clear please!! Stand clear!!!Book Review: I wouldn't call this erotic photography
Summary: 2 Stars
There are big breasts all right, but I wouldn't call this erotic photography. If you are looking for tasteful erotic photography, I'm afraid you wouldn't find it in this book. These are just pictures of big breasts, as the title of the book suggests. I found little to none erotic element in these pictures.Book Review: Lady bumps
Summary: 5 Stars
An appropriately large (check out the Product Detail dimensions) book for a large subject. Dian Hanson does all guys a favor by presenting the most memorable large ladies of yesteryear. As the book is basically nostalgia she mostly ignores the silicone rush of the last few years so no Chelsea Charms or Lolo Ferrari for example. Her introduction covers all the usual bases, Freud, war time pin-ups, Jane Russell in the Outlaw, burlesque strippers and most importantly the arrival of the pictorial men's magazine. Without these this book wouldn't exist.
All the photos relate to the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies so the majority are black and white (beautifully designed and printed in 175dpi on quality paper) and impressively large on the page, too. Despite a rather niche part of the overall publishing market the magazines that these models appeared in must have been seen by millions of men and the softcore poses are now sufficiently dated to seem sweetly seductive. Unfortunately there isn't an index so you can't flip immediately to your favorites and not everybody is included anyway (I can't seem to find Busty Russell anywhere) but interestingly there are several models shown, who despite appearing in dozens of titles, are captioned as unknown.
Amongst the dozens of models included, nine (Storm, Barr, Wilkinson, Angelo, Digard, Samples, Natividad, Kane and Stitz) get feature interviews (plus extra photos) and typically they come across as good hearted but sometimes rather naïve in allowing themselves to be ripped-off in a male world and there is hardly a mention about whether any of them made any money from their endowments. The last lady in the book is Guinness Record holder Norma Stitz (though I expect fans of European Karola might query Norma's title) and she is a fitting climax to a wonderful book of visual male fantasies.
Book Review: Man's best friend.
Summary: 5 Stars
Seriously, a good, good book about my fav subject. This one has got some of the most beautiful shots I've seen. It's a great piece to have around because it's so classy. The only trouble I have is keeping my friends grubby hands off it. Excellent!!!