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Erotic Dreams
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144 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2010
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David Vance
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December 16, 2018
Considerably more explicit than Paul Freeman's work, David Vance's 'Erotic Dreams' manages to capture beautiful art in these incredibly sexy photos.
Some of them seem very familiar to me due to various memes on the internet. Funny.
5 stars!
Some of them seem very familiar to me due to various memes on the internet. Funny.
5 stars!
October 18, 2010
L'uomo dei tuoi sogni
David Vance's Italian heritage continues to inform his art of photography: his works recall or pay homage to the great sculptors and painters of Italy's past, but they also present that dazzling eroticism that has been present in works Italian for centuries. But this book of photographs of the male takes a different path, retaining his past work ideas but at the same time making them more personal. At book's opening there is a quiet statement form the artist: 'My purpose with this work is not only to liberate myself, but also to support the idea that a positive sexual outlook and the expression thereof are natural and healthy. Irrational ideas and phobias about sex have taken their toll on society, and I'm standing up to encourage and celebrate those individuals who are bold enough to proudly embrace their sexuality and freely express it without shame or fear.' And perhaps that is the reason why David Vance seems much more comfortable placing images of frontal nudity before his audience in EROTIC DREAMS than he was in his previously highly successful monographs.
The title suggests the content: these images of men asleep and awake, in the thoughts of erotic dreams or in acting them out. As usual his models are of the finest caliber, able to take an idea from Vance and push it to the extreme possibilities. For this viewer the strongest work in the book is an extended section where he asks models to work gauze-like fabric - a substance that by nature of being semitransparent adds a fascinating dimension to subtlety. In some of these images the model simply stands holding the gauze between the camera's eye (or our eye) and the nude model, while in others the model is dramatically suspended a la Cirque de Soleil from the ceiling, the fabric being his only support. Other images in this sequence intertwine the fabric with the balletic leaps of the athletic dancer, or allow the model to play with the fabric prop in multi-exposure images that truly approach the dream state.
Vance intersperses his color images with black and white images (some psychologists would claim that we dream in both color and black and white) and these range from actively athletic movements, to views of sleeping models, to examinations of body parts, to quite dramatic images of a sleeping male in color with the above portion of the image containing two forms of the dreamer in black and white. Vance's use of the double exposure adds a sense of palimpsest that is some of the finer work he has done. But in the end this collection of images is about innocence, honesty, fearlessness, and complete comfort with the corporal temples in which these models are housed. These pages are full of EROTIC DREAMS but they are also overflowing with the talent of a very imaginative artist.
Grady Harp
David Vance's Italian heritage continues to inform his art of photography: his works recall or pay homage to the great sculptors and painters of Italy's past, but they also present that dazzling eroticism that has been present in works Italian for centuries. But this book of photographs of the male takes a different path, retaining his past work ideas but at the same time making them more personal. At book's opening there is a quiet statement form the artist: 'My purpose with this work is not only to liberate myself, but also to support the idea that a positive sexual outlook and the expression thereof are natural and healthy. Irrational ideas and phobias about sex have taken their toll on society, and I'm standing up to encourage and celebrate those individuals who are bold enough to proudly embrace their sexuality and freely express it without shame or fear.' And perhaps that is the reason why David Vance seems much more comfortable placing images of frontal nudity before his audience in EROTIC DREAMS than he was in his previously highly successful monographs.
The title suggests the content: these images of men asleep and awake, in the thoughts of erotic dreams or in acting them out. As usual his models are of the finest caliber, able to take an idea from Vance and push it to the extreme possibilities. For this viewer the strongest work in the book is an extended section where he asks models to work gauze-like fabric - a substance that by nature of being semitransparent adds a fascinating dimension to subtlety. In some of these images the model simply stands holding the gauze between the camera's eye (or our eye) and the nude model, while in others the model is dramatically suspended a la Cirque de Soleil from the ceiling, the fabric being his only support. Other images in this sequence intertwine the fabric with the balletic leaps of the athletic dancer, or allow the model to play with the fabric prop in multi-exposure images that truly approach the dream state.
Vance intersperses his color images with black and white images (some psychologists would claim that we dream in both color and black and white) and these range from actively athletic movements, to views of sleeping models, to examinations of body parts, to quite dramatic images of a sleeping male in color with the above portion of the image containing two forms of the dreamer in black and white. Vance's use of the double exposure adds a sense of palimpsest that is some of the finer work he has done. But in the end this collection of images is about innocence, honesty, fearlessness, and complete comfort with the corporal temples in which these models are housed. These pages are full of EROTIC DREAMS but they are also overflowing with the talent of a very imaginative artist.
Grady Harp
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