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BERKO

BERKO

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Authors: Ferenc Berko, B. Martin Pedersen
Creator: B. Pedersen
Publisher: Graphis Press
Category: Book

Buy New: $69.44



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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 reviews

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 0
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 104
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 8.9 x 0.7

ISBN: 1888001445
Dewey Decimal Number: 771
EAN: 9781888001440
ASIN: 1888001445

Publication Date: August 1999
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Sensual, mysterious and alluring images of the female by a photographer whose pioneering work has played a prominent role in the advancement of the camera as an art medium. These elegant black-and-white photographs, taken between 1935 and 1951, are at once timeless and serene, pulling the observer into a quiet place where past and present merge in a celebration of beauty found in the human body. 50 illustrations.


Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The ART of Photography   December 4, 2000
 3 out of 5 found this review helpful

It's difficult to fathom how this collection of Ferenc Berko's collection would rate less than an 4-star rating - it really should be a 4.5 stars - it only loses a star because of its brevity and its minimal accompanying text - which is simply adequate but Berko's talent and compositions are simply without question. A collection of important and relevant photographers of the early 20th century books would simply be incomplete without this book.

Of course, not everyone appreciates a simple, clean stylized composition of beautiful women (who have not been injected with silicon) of the early part of the 20th century. To diminish Berko's photographs and talent because one prefers photographs of porn stars in color - frankly, that is just laughable! Of course, there are hundreds of books that will satisfy your minimal requirements of the female form nude - but don't diminish Berko merely because you prefer colorized and from the school of "Hustler."

Amazon has graciously and plainly described the book's content and well as provided you with a cover photo so, this is clearly not for people whose frame of reference amounts to magazines from a truckstop.

If you are interested in photography as an art form ... of beautiful women captured in a stylized but very natural form - a series of photographs that have stood the test of time. Berko's photographs are just as telling and relevant today - if one is looking beyond remedial erotica - this book belongs in your collection!

JB


3 out of 5 stars berko is.... well...   May 3, 2000
 4 out of 6 found this review helpful

Berko's photographs are sort of that 40ish style of nudes. Kind of a cross between edward weston and hollywood pin-up but not quite believable as either one. While they are not bad as nude studies, they don't quite hit the mark; i found myself wondering when i would get to the good ones....


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