The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography
Edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Marilyn Jaye Lewis. ISBN-10: 1841193259
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The work of approximately 80 photographers, drawn from the US, UK and Europe, are spread across this collection's four hundred and eighty pages. Each photographer is allocated 6 or 7 photographs and a page with a few paragraphs of introduction and a small thumbnail portrait. It is a very safe collection of images and there is a fair amount of run of the mill nudes, examples of bondage and cloned fetish imagery which does give the collection a repetitive feel.
But there are enough standout photographers to make the purchase worthwhile and these include Sarah Ainslie, RC Horsch, the late great Bob Carlos Clarke, Pascal Baetens, Aeric Meredith-Goujon, Gilles Berquet, the self portraits of Cat de Rham, Michelle Serchuk, Roy Stuart, Trevor Watson, Maurizio Maon, Wolfgang Eichler and China Hamilton.
The book is published in paperback and is 7.2 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches in size. This format doesn't really do the images justice and seems cramped. The binding doesn't allow for extended and comfortable viewing and it is this that gives the lower rating than might have been given.
Review by Christopher John Ball
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