Love and Desire : Photographs

by William A. Ewing

This beautiful volume is an extraordinary visual survey of human passion. This is the long-awaited sequel to Ewing's acclaimed photography collection "The Body." Here, he surveys 150 years of photographic history exploring how the camera has been used to express the elusive ideas, thoughts, & sentiments related to the most turbulent of human emotions. These photos capture the group adulation of a public icon & the showgirl's seduction of her audience, a man proudly posing with his two wives as well as the innocent sensuality of a child clutching his mother's breast. Here are images by the great names in photography, including: Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Helmut Newton, Sally Mann, Brassai, & Julia Margaret Cameron. Plastic slipcase.

Genres: Photography, Art, Nonfiction, Sexuality, Art and Photography, Erotica

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

William A. Ewing is a Canadian art historian specializing in photography. He served as the director of the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne from 1996 to 2010 and has been a research professor in the art history department at the University of Geneva, where he has focused on the history of photography. He has curated numerous international exhibitions and authored several books on the photographic representation of the human body. He is also the founder of the Todi Circle, an annual think tank on photography held in Todi, Italy. His publications include The Body, Le Siècle du Corps, and Edward Steichen: Carnet Mondain.

Reviews

[Graham · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent curation of images demonstrating the shifts in photographing love since it’s inception to early digital, which also shows that the medium changes but the content has stayed the same.

[whimsicalmeerkat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful collection of photographs. Given to me by some dear friends for my birthday four years ago.