Sheer beauty - a look at life

The Best of it's kind!!! | Jock Sturges

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	• Jock Sturges Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap), 1996 - 207 pages average customer review:based on 45 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This book is one of Jock's finest yet...

It is always a let down to read nasty comments and misinterpretations of Jock's art. It is too bad that some people are so closed minded that they can't possibly understand that many people choose to be nude and it is not some sick or perverted thing that has been forced upon them. Jock's work is and always will be beautiful because the families he photographs are even more beautiful on the inside than they are on the outside... which is far more important than whether someone has clothes on or not. This book as well as Jocks other books are sitting right on my coffee table for all to see. They are and I am sure they always will be excellent. Once again GREAT work Sturges!

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Sheer beauty - a look at life

I am a white, male, Christian, conservative, Republican grandfather that teaches Sex Education to students the same age as some of Mr. Sturges' friends. How wonderful it is that my students can now see what other normal people their own age actually look like, and that their own body is OK!. Usually, they only get to see what Madison Avenue thinks that they should look like. How sad that Jock is persecuted, while everyday we see the use of little bare babes to sell toilet paper, skin lotion or fashionable pants. I love the book. Thank you Jock, and thank you, Amazon, for carrying Jock's work.

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The Best of it's kind!!!

I have looked through the book several times and I feel that it is honestly and truly the best of its kind around. I do not see how anyone could be offended by the art work in the book. If people were more open minded in our country (the United States), they would realize the beauty of Jock Sturges' art work!!!

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A fine, fine work.

This book is simply the best black-and-white photography book ever published. It is so full of gorgeous shots, you wonder how anyone can take offense at this book. It is understandable why some people in the English-speaking world would look askance at this work, because it is not everyday that a book is published that consists mostly of pictures of nude girls who are in the midst of puberty. Yet, in places like northern California and the French Riviera, these photos are taken for granted (which they should not be; they are so well done.), because beachfront nudity is perceived as normal. I am glad that Jock decided to publish a tome of this size, because his last two works seemed too much like samplers for Aperture. Scalo did a great job in assisting Jock. Hats off to both of them!

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The full vision of the families

This is Sturges' greatest work, and not least because it completes the catalogue of his friends and their families. Flawlessly printed from 8X10 contact silver gelatin prints, this shows the other pictures of the subjects we felt like we knew from the previous two books,often running us through 5 or 10 years of a model's life in as many pages. This work is important, because hiding something away empowers it- in a society where nudity between ages 6 and 18 is considered somehow wrong, it is no wonder we have so many perverts. Take away the thrill of the forbidden, and just enjoy the peaceful, respectful portraits in this 200 page retrospective. Their bodies are not the problem- your mind is.

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