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The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography
This stunningly produced volume of black-and-white photographic art brings together 80 leading photographers from the US, UK and Europe who have made a name in nude and erotic work. As their exciting but and imaginative images reveal, the medium of black-and-white ideally lends itself to erotic photography. Each contributor offers a six page display of their work, together with a brief biographical vignette. Among the acclaimed international photographers featured in this book RC Horsch; Bob Carlos Clarke; Michelle Serchuk; Roy Stuart; Annie Strinkle; Trevor Watson; Maurizio Maon; Wolfgang Eichler; The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica is the first of a new line of illustrated Mammoths. Building on the success of text-only Mammoth erotica volumes, amazingly this book offers masses of high quality photographs at an affordable price.
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First published January 1, 2001
About the author
Maxim Jakubowski
283 books163 followersMaxim Jakubowski is a crime, erotic, and science fiction writer and critic.
Jakubowski was born in England by Russian-British and Polish parents, but raised in France. Jakubowski has also lived in Italy and has travelled extensively. Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthology Twenty Houses of the Zodiac in 1979 for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton. He also contributed a short story to that anthology. He has now published almost 100 books in a variety of areas.
He has worked in book publishing for many years, which he left to open the Murder One bookshop[1], the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore. He contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was for eight years the crime columnist for Time Out and, presently, since 2000, the crime reviewer for The Guardian. He is also the literary director of London's Crime Scene Festival and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival, Noir in Fest, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy. He is one the leading editors in the crime and mystery and erotica field, in which he has published many major anthologies.
His novels include "It's You That I Want To Kiss", "Because She Thought She Loved Me", "The State Of Montana", "On Tenderness Express", "Kiss me Sadly" and "Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer". His short story collections are "Life in the World of Women", "Fools for Lust" and the collaborative "American Casanova". He is a regular broadcaster on British TV and radio and was recently voted the 4th Sexiest Writer of 2,007 on a poll on the crimespace website.
Jakubowski was born in England by Russian-British and Polish parents, but raised in France. Jakubowski has also lived in Italy and has travelled extensively. Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthology Twenty Houses of the Zodiac in 1979 for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton. He also contributed a short story to that anthology. He has now published almost 100 books in a variety of areas.
He has worked in book publishing for many years, which he left to open the Murder One bookshop[1], the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore. He contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was for eight years the crime columnist for Time Out and, presently, since 2000, the crime reviewer for The Guardian. He is also the literary director of London's Crime Scene Festival and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival, Noir in Fest, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy. He is one the leading editors in the crime and mystery and erotica field, in which he has published many major anthologies.
His novels include "It's You That I Want To Kiss", "Because She Thought She Loved Me", "The State Of Montana", "On Tenderness Express", "Kiss me Sadly" and "Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer". His short story collections are "Life in the World of Women", "Fools for Lust" and the collaborative "American Casanova". He is a regular broadcaster on British TV and radio and was recently voted the 4th Sexiest Writer of 2,007 on a poll on the crimespace website.
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May 31, 2010
There are lots of wonderful photos in this book and I spent many nights poring over and enjoying them, but they offer a depressing sameness. Is a young, slim white woman the most beautiful thing in the world to photograph? Where are all the women of color, and why not photograph men, also? Why is this entitled "Illustrated Erotica" instead of, more fairly, "Slim White Maidens on Display"?
True, there is some variation to the white-girl theme, but very little, and they're expected: plus-sized women bending toward the camera to plump their ample cleavage at you, men used as props or for contrast, and my least-favorite image, found on page 63 and shot by Gilles Berquet, of an Asian woman viciously bound and on the floor in the foreground of a high-contrast photo with a blotchy, disturbingly war-like background, like an awful Vietnam flashback. Why, Gilles?
There are plenty of portraits of that perennial macho-het-guy favorite, two women together; but although men are shown sometimes singly (often in shadows or blurred) and more often as props for female models, they aren't shown together, and why not?
This book is beautiful and does belong in an erotic collection, but unfortunately it seems we still need separate volumes -- and probably specialty publishers -- for those of us who appreciate the beauty of variety, color, and men, especially men together. I don't know how many human body types and erotic expressions are worthy of artistic admiration, but I'm certain there's more than one.
True, there is some variation to the white-girl theme, but very little, and they're expected: plus-sized women bending toward the camera to plump their ample cleavage at you, men used as props or for contrast, and my least-favorite image, found on page 63 and shot by Gilles Berquet, of an Asian woman viciously bound and on the floor in the foreground of a high-contrast photo with a blotchy, disturbingly war-like background, like an awful Vietnam flashback. Why, Gilles?
There are plenty of portraits of that perennial macho-het-guy favorite, two women together; but although men are shown sometimes singly (often in shadows or blurred) and more often as props for female models, they aren't shown together, and why not?
This book is beautiful and does belong in an erotic collection, but unfortunately it seems we still need separate volumes -- and probably specialty publishers -- for those of us who appreciate the beauty of variety, color, and men, especially men together. I don't know how many human body types and erotic expressions are worthy of artistic admiration, but I'm certain there's more than one.
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