- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Edition Stemmle,Switzerland; illustrated edition edition (May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 3908163390
- ISBN-13: 978-3908163398
- Product Dimensions: 33.9 x 25.2 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,528,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Alva Bernadine's photographic signature is unique, combining elements of surrealism and eroticism with humour. The resulting photographs are astounding, provocative and compelling, and have appeared in Vogue, GQ, Elle and The Sunday Times. As Bernadine himself puts it: 'I take the theatricality of surrealism, the elegance of classical haute couture photography, the narrative of reportage and the refinements of advertising photography and mix them all into a "Bernadinian cocktail" - a radical photographic synthesis.' Bernadine's photographs can be read at two levels: on the surface, a feast for the eyes; below that, a wealth of sublime, ironic, sometimes provocative allusion. Latex-clad women in their fitted kitchens, female bodies with two lower or upper torsos - these are stories from the subculture of male fantasy, defused somewhat by self-mocking exaggeration and surreal form, though without losing anything of their provocative and pugnacious quality.
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Bernadine shows you a world that you have never quite seen,
By suzaneebailey@hotmail.com (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bernadinism (Hardcover)
Great photographers reveal to you things you have not quite seen before. Some picture the everyday to reveal in a fresh way the mundanites you may have overlooked, while others construct scenarios that you have never seen before. The author lies in the latter category. For the first time in a long time I looked at a body of photographs and learned something new. Even the photograph on the endpaper, Cuntflowers, is startling, featuring a collage of flowers and vaginas. It has often been remarked how blooms look like vaginas but I have to admit I have never knowingly seen them both in close proximity before $B!](J giving the viewer a chance to compare and contrast. I found it explicit yet beautiful. He has a singular and transgressive view of the world. A wonderful artist. Powerful imagery.
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A Larger-than-Life Sensual DreamWorld!,
By J. C. Gilbert "Editor of Michelle7(dot)com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bernadinism (Hardcover)
Based in London, photographer Alva Bernadine has created a vision of such excessive originality that first time viewers might find themselves shocked beyond belief. They might laugh a little too. But in the end, few will fail to find themselves completely swept up in the ultra-inventive dreamworld that Bernadine constructs for us in this fabulous book called, Bernadinism: How to Dominate Men and Subjugate Women. Packed with tension and overflowing with narrative his work is a self-confessed mixture of surrealism, reportage and commercial photography, and classical haute photography as well, all mixed-up and shaken to produce the "Bernadinian Cocktail". It is an invigorating body of work and the book itself is immaculately printed and bursting at its hardcover seams with gigantic, full-page photographs (color and black & white). This is a first rate production from both artist and publisher.
Alva Bernadine was born in Grenada, West Indies and moved to London, England when he was six years old. He has worked for such famous publications as Vogue, GQ, and Elle. In 1987 he was awarded the Vogue/Sotheby's Cecil Beaton Award for a series of photographs called The Fetish and was nominated for English Erotic Photographer of the Year in 1997 and 1998. Alva also recently won the Erotic Photographer of the Year 2002 award at the the Sex Maniac's Ball in the UK, for which he received a golden-winged phallus. Other contenders included Araki, the famous Japanese photographer. 0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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By Earl R. Sutton "earlsutton" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bernadinism (Hardcover)
"Examines his radical photographic work, filled with surreal--at times disturbing--images, with a narrative quality from the subculture of male fantasy, defused somewhat by self-mocking exaggeration. Fully illustrated in color. 127 pages. Size 9½ x 13¼ inches. Published by Edition Stemmle."--HamiltonBook.com
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