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The people in Mona Kuhn's photographs are nude but not naked. Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the impression that nothing could clothe them better than their own skin. With a unique style, Kuhn's intimate photographs of both young and old are sensual compositions of skin and wrinkles, light and shadow, gestures and gazes. She creates taughtly composed images which balance sharply rendered portraits against blurred backgrounds to lure the eye and provoke the imagination.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The photography in this book is excellent and the quality of the print is good.
It is important to know that the setting is the same as the photography of Jock Sturges, namely a naturist location in France. In fact Mona Kuhn is personally acquainted with Jock Sturges and received some advice from him. The style is however completely different. The photographs of Mona Kuhn are intimate and often based on close-ups. Only the subject of interest may be sharp, the rest being out of focus. Both the close-ups and the blurred representation are used to create strong and sometimes near abstract compositions. Additionally the sense of being among a group of friends in a relaxed vacation atmosphere is strongly present.
Mona Kuhn has a personal website which contains examples of her work.
It is important to know that the setting is the same as the photography of Jock Sturges, namely a naturist location in France. In fact Mona Kuhn is personally acquainted with Jock Sturges and received some advice from him. The style is however completely different. The photographs of Mona Kuhn are intimate and often based on close-ups. Only the subject of interest may be sharp, the rest being out of focus. Both the close-ups and the blurred representation are used to create strong and sometimes near abstract compositions. Additionally the sense of being among a group of friends in a relaxed vacation atmosphere is strongly present.
Mona Kuhn has a personal website which contains examples of her work.
Format:Hardcover
When other artists photograph the female body in a sexy, glamourous way like Guido Argentini, empowering the woman like Helmut Newton, or weak degrading style like in Araki's books, Mona Kuhn is the opposite. She blends both sexes successfully, and reveals the soul and thoughts of the women, not just a beautiful body, she frame the sitter in a soft manner as women are in many cases, in her photography she breaks the barrier in between the two sexes.
This book is a must to have as a opposite to other artists, even if you are just a nude lover instead of photography.
Totally recommended.
This book is a must to have as a opposite to other artists, even if you are just a nude lover instead of photography.
Totally recommended.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a lovely collection of monochrome and colour photographs presented in a manner that
makes them very easy to study and appreciate.
Kuhn presents a collection of photographs that celebrate the human form, sexuality and
emotion, whilst avoiding any sense of erotica or voyeurism. The monochrome images are far
more successful than the colour images, though it is interesting to see the use of both.
Text is fortunately minimal. Unfortunately, it also draws attention to the collection's greatest
weakness - the relationship between the photographer and subject. Kuhn is at pains to tell us
that she never forgets the humanity of her subjects, and a later contribution enthuses how the
subjects feel they are artists too. However, many of the presented images lack that sense of
collaboration. In the work of Sturges or Mann, there is always a great sense of an interest in
the psychology of the subject and their involvement in the created image. Equally, they are
also successful in conveying a sense of captured moment (however carefully constructed the
scene may actually have been). Kuhn's subjects are more obviously her tools, being
manipulated to her ends. We care less about who they are, or their thoughts. It is work more
reminiscent of Gibson.
However, this is a general overview, more or less true in relation to individual images. There
is at least one image where none of the above is true ("Gazing at the Voice" on p.101). The
book is seriously worth the cover price for this image alone, which is truly stunning. And the
ends that Kuhn seems to seek to explore - contrasts between youth and age, emotional
distance, and the texture of the human form, amongst others - are studied to great effect.
There are pictures here that you will want to look at for some time, and which your mind will
keep returning to.
Great collection. A book well worth buying. Future work will be worth waiting for ... if wait
we must!
makes them very easy to study and appreciate.
Kuhn presents a collection of photographs that celebrate the human form, sexuality and
emotion, whilst avoiding any sense of erotica or voyeurism. The monochrome images are far
more successful than the colour images, though it is interesting to see the use of both.
Text is fortunately minimal. Unfortunately, it also draws attention to the collection's greatest
weakness - the relationship between the photographer and subject. Kuhn is at pains to tell us
that she never forgets the humanity of her subjects, and a later contribution enthuses how the
subjects feel they are artists too. However, many of the presented images lack that sense of
collaboration. In the work of Sturges or Mann, there is always a great sense of an interest in
the psychology of the subject and their involvement in the created image. Equally, they are
also successful in conveying a sense of captured moment (however carefully constructed the
scene may actually have been). Kuhn's subjects are more obviously her tools, being
manipulated to her ends. We care less about who they are, or their thoughts. It is work more
reminiscent of Gibson.
However, this is a general overview, more or less true in relation to individual images. There
is at least one image where none of the above is true ("Gazing at the Voice" on p.101). The
book is seriously worth the cover price for this image alone, which is truly stunning. And the
ends that Kuhn seems to seek to explore - contrasts between youth and age, emotional
distance, and the texture of the human form, amongst others - are studied to great effect.
There are pictures here that you will want to look at for some time, and which your mind will
keep returning to.
Great collection. A book well worth buying. Future work will be worth waiting for ... if wait
we must!
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