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Until Now
Author: Anne Geddes

Sleeping angels. Flower fairies. Woodland nymphs and watermelon seeds. Anne Geddes's magical world is populated by hundreds of beautiful, chubby babies and gorgeous children dressed as peapods, pansies, peonies, and pearls. Geddes fans will be thrilled by Until Now, a lush, coffee-table-sized, 10-year retrospective of Geddes's work, including 1991's crowd-pleasing "Cabbage Kids", featured on calendars and coffee mugs everywhere, as well as many previously uncollected shots from Geddes's New Zealand studio.

Pictures of Innocence : The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood (Interplay)
Author: Anne Higonnet

Pictures of Innocence--with 100 illustrations that range from Caravaggio's raunchy Cupid to Edward Weston's luminous, analytical nude studies of his son Neil to anonymous family Christmas-card snapshots--is the kickoff title in what is billed as "a new series of books about controversial themes and issues in the arts that cut across traditional disciplines." Higonnet marshals masses of material to develop her argument that the way we look at children and childhood is changing, and that this change affects our judgment of art, freedom of expression, sexuality, privacy, consent, exploitation, and child abuse.

Pleasures Taken : Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs
Author: Carol Mavor

In the book, she follows the example of Roland Barthes, "writing aloud" and reacting personally to photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, Hannah Cullwick, and Lewis Caroll. Photography calls for such an approach, Ms. Mavor says, since it conjures images and memories in the observer.

Balthus
Author: Claude Roy

Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, better known as Balthus, is one of the greatest European painters of our time. Though not part of any major school, Balthus lives and works in Switzerland and has steadily gained recognition over the past 20 years. See in this study the brooding art of this fascinating, contemporary artist. This landmark book will be prized by anyone who admires contemporary art. 182 color plates.

The Age of Innocence
Author: David Hamilton

Many of the photos are soft, muted, elegant, and almost dream-like, while others are sharp and rich in color and contrast. There are full figure studies and a variety of portraits.

Bodies and Souls: The Century Project
Author: Frank Cordelle

The Century Project, by photographer Frank Cordelle, is a chronological series of nude photographic portraits of more than one hundred women and girls from the moment of birth to nearly a hundred years of age. A diverse group of photographs comprising women of many ages, shapes, sizes, and life experiences is presented in this exquisitely disarming project. Most of the images are accompanied by moving statements written by the women themselves.

Bouguereau
Author: Fronia E. Wissman

60 full color reproductions and 15 black & white illustrations perfectly exemplify Bouguereau's prodigious talent in creating works of sensual, emotional, and intellectual appeal. By the time of his death in 1905, Bouguereau was scorned by progressive painters and critics who saw in his works all that was wrong with the official French world of art, but he was also a favorite of collectors, who found in his paintings of bathers, nymphs, and shepherdesses a realm of eternal beauty far from contemporary life.

Childhood Streets
Author: Graham Ovenden

This book is a beautiful collection of older black-and-white photos of children. It is a kind of document of a time, when children could play safely on streets, bath naked on a rivers bank, roam through streets as if they were a continuation of there flats. The work is more edgy reportage than sentimental kitsch, though he remains eminently sympathetic to his subject matter.

Hellen Van Meene: Portraits
Author: Hellen Van Meene

Editorial Reviews.
For the past seven years, Hellen van Meene has been producing intimate portraits of adolescents. Though the introspective gaze of her models suggest that these are spontaneous, private moments in the lives of her subjects, the carefully considered natural light, lush textures, and striking compositions betray van Meene's hand in choreographing each image down to the finest detail. Throughout, the picturesque qualities are undercut by a disquieting tension: the models' clothes are ill-fitting or inside-out; one girl is asked to lie in a cold bath, fully clothed; another models a fresh bruise. This intimate collaboration between the photographer and her models simultaneously exposes the uncertain nature of adolescent identities and the complicated act of capturing them on film.

Eva: Eloge De Ma Fille
Author: Irina Ionesco

This is an amazing body of work, and one might think it was done in the 1920's as the style is sort of the flapper mode. Irina chronicles her daughter as she grows from a young child to a young women. It is disturbing as one cannot look at the pictures of Eva as a young child and not think of the tragedy of Jon Benet. Eva as a little child is made up as a siren with a combination of innocence and provocation.

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