Bruno Books

This book is another example of Benno Thoma's excellent control of his technique. He uses only natural light, and his subjects tend not to be over-pumped models rather the younger 20ish (just) type of guy who is still shy and unsure, yet yearning to be outgoing.

Thoma collects all that and more from his subjects in the truly wonderful book. The appealing youthfulness, the searching eyes, the inspired poses. You will love this book, especially if you like monochrome pictures.

Further details of the photographer are available from his website, where it's possible to order limited edition prints if you can afford it.

I can heartily recommend this addition to your collection.

This is now one of my favorite male-nude photography books. It's right up there on my Top10 list. This may be because I'm of Swedish heritage, but I know that's not the real reason. The real reason is that this is an absolutely breathtaking photo album of erotic young-looking men photographed outdoors in the stunning landscape that is Sweden. These photographs take advantage of the natural soft light, course landscape, and bright sunlight that is part of the changing seasons in Sweden. It's amazing how well the models managed to stay relaxed, sensual & erotic looking during this cold & snowy winter photo shoot. It's very unusual to take images of nude male models under such harsh conditions and have the models still look erotic, sensual and happy at the same time. The sensuality, erotic mood, and sex appeal of each model does come across on each page of these black & white and color photographs. I think this photo album is as great as it is because of Benno Thoma and all of his handsome young models who made it possible through their positive interaction together. The scenic landscape & natural lighting were an added bonus.

Benno Thoma has worked in fashion and advertising photography for many years, and now is also well-known for his male nude photography. He has several male nude photography books to his credit including: "Young Companions" (1995), "Edition Euros #3", and "Somos Cubanos" (1998). These other photo books are awesome and true to his very creative and different style of photography, but I believe "Absolute Sweden" is my still my favorite. This is definitely a collector's item for your library, so make sure you get it before it's too late. I look forward to his next collection. Highly Recommended!

Excellent book of gorgeous guys in their skimpy white briefs and a few totally frontal shots that would make any gay guy shivers to their bone....I like this book because of its black & white photos as well as color ones...A definite HOT coffee table book.

This book is one which is FULL of beautiful images of young men. Worth a look, and makes a nice coffee table ook as well!

Why isn't this book published in english. This is absurd. Shame on you Birkhauser. Long live Zevi. Viva Italia.

This book is a good monography to have in one very small size book, almost all the project made by wright. all the buildings are presented cronologically with b/w pictures and a small text, some drawings follow some projects. The text made by Bruno Zevi, is also very interesting.One very important things about this book, is that it is in GERMAN & FRENCH only!

Giordano Bruno stands at the cusp between the Renaissance and the modern world. His unique attempts to extract philosophical and theological meaning from Copernicus's forward-looking work provide us with striking insights into the Weltanschauung of his troubled times. Gosselin and Lerner have brilliantly translated Bruno's elegant but involuted Renaissance Italian into clear modern English that nevertheless preserves the spirit of the original. Their thoughtful notes bring comprehensibility to previously misunderstood passages, and the linkage they establish between Bruno's travails and Galileo's later troubles is highly convincing. A must-read for the scientist as well as the philosopher

Giordan Bruno is still today a controversial philosopher. In this book he exposes his philosophical/cosmological ideas and, in doing so, he uses the new Copernican theory as the basis for a new, daring vision of the universe.
Anybody who would like to familiarize him/herself with the work of Bruno, or is interested in the development of Western ideas will find this book extremely challenging. However I would like to say a few words on the interpretation that the translators give of Bruno's ideas. The translators appear to follow completely an interpretation of Bruno based on the theory of the english scolar Frances Yates. According to this theory Bruno was an exponent of the (then popular) Hermetic movement.
It is imperative to underscore that Yates theory is not universally accepted. While it is known that Hermetic influences can be traced in Bruno, to reduce his whole cosmology and his understanding of Copernican theory to a "hieroglyphic" is misleading if not plainly wrong.
Bruno was not a scientist, but he was the first to intuitively realize the revolutionary consequences of Copernican theory (not only for science) and to bring that theory to its logical conclusions: an infinite universe with infinite earth-like worlds. This vision can not be reconciled with the world of the hermetic "Magus". The whole purpose of the hermetic Magus was to ascend the material world to the world of the perfect spheres. In Bruno's universe there is nothing to ascend to. The universe is composed of a thin air where an infinity of worlds and stars are suspended and move following universal (animistic) principles. The other worlds are corruptible as much as the earth and may be inhabited by earth-like people. The very base of the hermetic doctrine is missing. I would therefore encourage the interested reader not to stop the investigation of Bruno's ideas to the hermetic interpretation, but to also read different points of view (for example Yates interpretation of Bruno's use of images has recently been challenged with very solid arguments by the finding of italian scholars). In particular I found the book of Hillary Gatti "Giordano Bruno and the renaissance science" extremely interesting and complete.

This book is excellent for gaining knowledge of aspects in the astrological chart imperative for those learning astrology, and also for those who are doing interpretation of other peoples astrology charts. recommended strongly for accurate interpretations. I personally find Huber work very interesting.

Even though I am not a practitioner of Huber astrology, I found this book to be truly excellent.

It covers a huge range of aspect patterns, with in-depth delineations of each.

It's an asset to any astrologer's book collection.

This book is remarkable and uplifting in seeing the beauty in "Average Janes" and telling their stories through both stories and photos. A wonderful gift for women of all ages.

In this work by Nancy Bruno, I found delicate tales of true life, and pictures of intense beauty. No, not the kind that is plastered all over the television, or printed in magazines, but the beauty that life brings; the hidden beauty that we all need to see, and appreciate.
Inside the pages of this book, we are graced to read life experiences from 35-women. The strength, courage, accomplishments of each is the true beauty that shines. The black and white pictures add the visual that completes and satisfies the perfection of this beauty. A reminder of truth for all. Beautiful Women, celebrates the true essence of the pure beauty of women, and brings it forth for all to appreciate and enjoy. A lovely work.

This is a book of post-cards. This means that each portrait is printed on card (obvious, really) and held into the back by a tear-free glue. So, you can keep the collection, or send individual pictures to friends. You do need to be careful if you keep them because repeated creasing of the spine WILL loosen the cards.

The pictures themselves are the usual brilliant Bel Ami standard of this gorgeously put-together guy. Lighting and sharpnes of focus are exemplars.

This would make a wonderful stocking-filler for those of you who are into the Christmas thing. Otherwise, just wrap a copy and make your friend's day.

These color postcards of Lukas are beautiful. These are images by himself and with the many other top Bel Ami models. They are all nude shots except for a few. Lukas has always been the top model at Bel Ami, in both print and videos. This is a wonderful collection of postcards, that will surely delight anyone you send them to, or for your own personal collection. These postcard books will definitely become a valuable collectors item in the future. This is number #31 of the series, lets hope there are more.

This book has so many HOT FALCON models in it -- you have to pick it up a few times ...

The name Falcon is a byword for quality photographs. Falcon Studios has produced superstars Ken Ryker, Mike Branson and Jeremy Penn - stars who are legendary. This all-color post card book is a compilation of some of the best Falcon photos. American heroes in stunning quality.

Just LOOK at the cover photograph!! I defy you not wish you could just crawl into the photograph and unfold Johan's arms and legs.

This book is a brilliant collection of postcards, neatly bound into a cover, so that you can collect or send. Your friends will love the cards, even if they have to collect them from the postman's hands!

Good Bel Ami models, sexy, unobtainable(?), and made to lust after.

This is another great postcard book, No.#21 in the series. It showcases the best images from the hardcover book "Summertime." These postcards feature photographer "Bel Ami's" young, handsome European male nude models. All of the models have breathtaking bodies. A great collector's item to add to your collection if you have been collecting the previous 20 postcard books, or great to just have available to send as postcards or notecards to your friends who will surely appreciate them.

These stickers are small, pretty reproductions of various pieces of artwork. Each sticker is unique in the book, no doubles of any picture. They aren't the most perfect color plates ever, but they're basically for correspondance and craft purposes, or could be used as a reference (say, by Art History students). While I wish there had been duplicates, I can't fault Dover for erring on the side of variety, and I can't argue with the wonderful value the price represents. This little book is great as stationery, but it would also make a nice stocking-stuffer or gift topper. If Botticelli isn't your favorite artist, Dover has made books of other artists' work, which Amazon also offers and which are just as nifty.

BOTTICELLI's art tells what he liked in other artists: the shaded color and light of Andrea del Verrocchio, the energy of Antonio del Pollaiolo, and the faces of Fra Filippo Lippi. From Bruno Santi's book, it becomes clear what he liked in his own work: atmosphere, in the coarse tent with the headless Assyrian King Holofernes and in the dawn alive with Judith and her lady-in-waiting; attention to detail, in the blue enamel armor and metal highlights of his Fortitude; color, in the dawn flesh tones under the cornflower- and daisy-decorated clothing on his Birth of Venus; innovation, in the clear path to the larger-than-life 16th-century art with his Calumny, in the first early Renaissance freely placed figures with his Primavera and in the first Italian inscription in a painting with his Madonna enthroned with saints; meditation, in the golden dusk of his Adoration of the Magi; tension, in the contorted acolytes at his Communion of St. Jerome. The author also shows in his Scala/Riverside published work what the Florentine art world was doing during David Landau and Peter Parshall's THE RENAISSANCE PRINT 1470-1500. Likewise, his beautifully illustrated text is a good way to understand Jill Dunkerton's DURER TO VERONESE, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden and Maria Kusche's SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA, Mary D. Garrard's ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, Andreas Prater and Hermann Bauer's PAINTING OF THE BAROQUE, and Rudolf Wittkower's ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY 1600-1750.