"Animal sexuality differs from eroticism in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos" is how Georges Bataille explains eroticism. Casting a new light on that most human of acts, Roy Stuart presents us here with a book of erotic power rarely seen. The brilliant technique and skillful presentation of his videos and stills present sexuality directly and without prudery. They have earned this Paris based American a reputation as a grandmaster of the erotic camera. His photos and glimpse videos have aquired cult status even amongst experienced hardcore fans, and with good reason, for they represent an exquisite representation of the forbidden. In turns voyeuristic, in turns narrative, his pictures with their disarming explicitness subvert traditional moral codes and force the viewer to reevaluate his or her preconceived notions of sexuality. The photographs assembled in this book, which in another context might have been condemned, instead give a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of Roy Stuart's magical theatre of transgression and taboo.
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Some will see this as art, others as pornography and to be fair it treads a fine line between. The book consists of short photosets that convey sexual encounters or fantasies. They are quite explicit at times, and have a more reportage style than fine art style. Some shots would be quite at home in top shelf magazines, others are quite simple and beautiful, but overall the book is more about fantasy than reality.
Certainly it defies conventions however. This is not a sanitized, asexual study of form. It's about sex, and does not follow conventions of beauty. Women are often dishevelled, with smudged make up, unshaven and certainly not plastic supermodels.
Despite its explicitness and somewhat seamy approach however, it still intrigues and captivates, and manages to avoid the hard, cold and uncompromising feel of commercial porn. One for the voyeurs, and differently aroused perhaps ?
Certainly it defies conventions however. This is not a sanitized, asexual study of form. It's about sex, and does not follow conventions of beauty. Women are often dishevelled, with smudged make up, unshaven and certainly not plastic supermodels.
Despite its explicitness and somewhat seamy approach however, it still intrigues and captivates, and manages to avoid the hard, cold and uncompromising feel of commercial porn. One for the voyeurs, and differently aroused perhaps ?
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Beautifully lit shots of an artistic form of sexual expression. The style is aimed at a high end market, the liberated bourgeois as a form of guided imagery for their sexual release. The images range from sexual tease to mimicry to documentation, a gamut of emotions as the photographer uses a range of Caucasian models to enact desire.
The photographs highlight the hidden passionate worlds of men and women enacting their fantasy dream worlds in the apartments, fields and concrete pathways of the here and now. Men dressed as gimps pander to female tastes, men pressed against walls have anonymous touches from invisible women letting imagination intensify anonymous worlds.
Roy Stuart imparts the worlds beyond the polite plasterboard pig pens, the dial a porn rent a girl, dress in rubber worlds masked behind corporate facades. Stripped of pretense the old rhythms of life are beaten out on wooden floors, wobbling walls and iron sprung bedsteads.
This beauty lies within the beast.
The photographs highlight the hidden passionate worlds of men and women enacting their fantasy dream worlds in the apartments, fields and concrete pathways of the here and now. Men dressed as gimps pander to female tastes, men pressed against walls have anonymous touches from invisible women letting imagination intensify anonymous worlds.
Roy Stuart imparts the worlds beyond the polite plasterboard pig pens, the dial a porn rent a girl, dress in rubber worlds masked behind corporate facades. Stripped of pretense the old rhythms of life are beaten out on wooden floors, wobbling walls and iron sprung bedsteads.
This beauty lies within the beast.
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Great photos by a master
21 Sep 2004
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From an objective viewpoint "erotica" and pornography" are synonyms for the same thing, except that the first is associated more with art than the second. Thus this portfolio of photos highlighting female sexuality where like a film director Roy Stuart carefully arranges everything in the shot. His female models are scarcely less inhibited than pornstars but are (mostly) prettier and fortunately "au naturel." (...) The models are interested in each other and don't look at the camera. I would have given 5 stars if all the photos were like this, but there are some which (purely subjectively) (...)
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