These girls are posing Strictly for eachother. They are completely Call self-conscious, HOWEVER sassy Their looks may look and HOWEVER brazen They may lock eyes with the camera. The Special Things They share - Perhaps the ink, the nudity, or the youthful spirit of rebellion - Appears to be about breaking conventions of high fashion, main-stream rolemodels and nude photography of the female body. And the book does all that, breaks the conventions all right (not thatthey really need another assault). Much more interesting though is not what the images contest but What They create: a lovely Covenant of girls who subscribe to alternative notions of female beauty, who love to show Themselves after literally inscribing thesis notions of beauty Onto Their bodies, and who pose collectively, even if there is only one girl in a Given picture. What gets me is thatthey are doing the pictures for Themselves, and for eachother, and did the book radiates so much warmth and empathy as a result. And, by inference, so much authenticity. It is something like a fable on what authentically feminine nude photography would look like, not Because it is cheekier and Sassier, but Because the cheek and sat is shared - with other cheeky, sassy chicks. If you want your girlfriend to look at female nudes with you and to like what she sees, this is the book You Should Get. The most innovative, sensuous and serene volume of nudes I have bought in years, and the most tender and warmest Simultaneously One.
