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Summary: Great!
Review: This book is truly great! Outstanding beautiful photos of some the top models of our time. Definitely a must-have!
Rating: 
Summary: Great summary of great models and a great career
Review: This is one stunning book of some stunning women. It starts off with Cindy Crawford and Eva Herzagovia (hope I got that right!) and reaches back about 25 years to cover all the majors and a lot of models I never heard of. From magazine shoots for the most part, there are photos rangeing from a few nudes and partial nudes through sportswear, and formals, every one is shot in beautiful style, very expressively, and in some beautiful locations (St. Barth is a favorite of Glaviano's, apparently). Frankly, one of the reasons I bought the book is for pointers on posing and shooting in any situation I could glean from the photos, its that wide ranging. The photos come in sets and individual shots. Accompanying most of the photo sets include a snippet of words from Glaviano about his reaction to that model or that shoot. It adds a real feel to the situation he as a photographer was living in at the time and sometime the character of the model. The time he broke his leg on a shoot with Cindy Crawford, for example (it all comes out well in the end and Cindy is one of the Good Guys). The quality of the book and photos is good too, though I could have wished for a somewhat larger size. At about 8 x 8 inches this book is not quite pocket sized and not quite full sized. And the term hardback is loosely defined as well. The covers aren't really stiff, but they aren't floppy paper either.
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Summary: Lighting and postures are as usual
Review: While this book for sure catches your eye the first time around, I must say the lighting is rather cheezy (as in the glossy mags) and there is too much focus on top-models- which are probably the easist to photograph. It's a PLAYBOY-in-a-book which is in itself not a bad thing but I am still looking for erotic photography that doesn't immediately turn sleazy or looks like cut-out photos (go to St. Croix, sit on a wet strone on the shore at 7pm...)
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