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Postbooks: Belle Epoque Nudes
When a greeting card just isn't enough ... send something unique. It's as simple and inexpensive to mail as a card - but it's much more: an entire book to keep and treasure forever.
Light as a feather, wonderfully personal, and colorfully visual, these small, self-enclosed little volumes go right into the mail with no wrapping required.
Just write your dedication on the inside, address it on the back, seal the flap, stick on a stamp, and put it in the mailbox.
Give one for holidays, for birthdays and anniversaries, for messages of cheer, or for any occasion when you want to remember friends and family.
And, there's truly something for everyone: expressive dogs and cats for the animal lover; lush roses for the gardener; Monet's paintings for the art buff; a wine companion for the oenophile; and tributes to coffee, tea, chocolate, and more for the home chef - and 'Belle Epoque Nudes' for ... well, you know who.
Each is a lasting value - for the recipient and the giver.
Light as a feather, wonderfully personal, and colorfully visual, these small, self-enclosed little volumes go right into the mail with no wrapping required.
Just write your dedication on the inside, address it on the back, seal the flap, stick on a stamp, and put it in the mailbox.
Give one for holidays, for birthdays and anniversaries, for messages of cheer, or for any occasion when you want to remember friends and family.
And, there's truly something for everyone: expressive dogs and cats for the animal lover; lush roses for the gardener; Monet's paintings for the art buff; a wine companion for the oenophile; and tributes to coffee, tea, chocolate, and more for the home chef - and 'Belle Epoque Nudes' for ... well, you know who.
Each is a lasting value - for the recipient and the giver.
32 pages, Paperback
First published March 28, 2000
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February 25, 2024
Never judge a book by its cover ... this one gets better when opened!
A series of black and white photographs of turn of the century ladies in a state of déshabillé, tastefully presented of course, a la Kenny Everett! The photographers are Achille Lemoine, Georges Lefeberes and Jules Richard.
The ladies are posed in a studio or in the garden of Monsieur Lemoine's villa at Croissy (lucky man) or even in Monsieur Richard's atrium reconstructed in the style of a villa in Pompeii with an array of antiques and decorative items, including the ladies!
One of the models, Marcelle, is particularly attractive and poses as though she is the girl next door, happy thoughts. Another, obviously with literary tastes, is tastefully posed reading a book ... I wonder what it is, Emile Zola perhaps!
To accompany the photographs there is a brief history of the nude in photography and a short essay on Three Dimensional Seduction.
Very pleasant on the eye, a visual delight!
25 February 2024
Saw this on my shelves while tidying and could not resist a further look and noted the introductory comment, 'Despite the righteous zeal of church leaders and other guardians of the public's moral values, people's attitudes were changing rapidly.' And to make matters worse, or better depending on one's point of view, , 'The law was rather hazy on the subject of photography, allowing practitioners of the art to do almost anything they liked.' The result was said to be, 'Freed of these preconceptions, photography focussed on a new target - our fantasies.'
And, thus, because of that, ici 'Belle Epoque Nudes'.
A series of black and white photographs of turn of the century ladies in a state of déshabillé, tastefully presented of course, a la Kenny Everett! The photographers are Achille Lemoine, Georges Lefeberes and Jules Richard.
The ladies are posed in a studio or in the garden of Monsieur Lemoine's villa at Croissy (lucky man) or even in Monsieur Richard's atrium reconstructed in the style of a villa in Pompeii with an array of antiques and decorative items, including the ladies!
One of the models, Marcelle, is particularly attractive and poses as though she is the girl next door, happy thoughts. Another, obviously with literary tastes, is tastefully posed reading a book ... I wonder what it is, Emile Zola perhaps!
To accompany the photographs there is a brief history of the nude in photography and a short essay on Three Dimensional Seduction.
Very pleasant on the eye, a visual delight!
25 February 2024
Saw this on my shelves while tidying and could not resist a further look and noted the introductory comment, 'Despite the righteous zeal of church leaders and other guardians of the public's moral values, people's attitudes were changing rapidly.' And to make matters worse, or better depending on one's point of view, , 'The law was rather hazy on the subject of photography, allowing practitioners of the art to do almost anything they liked.' The result was said to be, 'Freed of these preconceptions, photography focussed on a new target - our fantasies.'
And, thus, because of that, ici 'Belle Epoque Nudes'.
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