| Atlas of Foreshortening: The Human Figure in Deep Perspective |  | Author: John Cody
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 685084
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0442215959
Dewey Decimal Number: 743.4
EAN: 9780442215958
ASIN: 0442215959
Publication Date: September 1984
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Condition: solid edition with general overall wear. no markings.
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Product Description
A unique visual encyclopedia for artists and illustrators
Like its acclaimed predecessor, the Second Edition of this outstanding photographic reference offers illustrators, fine artists, and animators immediate access to the human form in deep perspective, that is, foreshortened. With all-new photographs, the Atlas of Foreshortening features:
* Over 530 high-quality photographs
* Both male and female nudes
* Poses with slight, moderate, and marked foreshortening
* Detail shots and full-body photographs
* Many poses shot from multiple angles
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 Useful. Worth the price May 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a valuable tool for drawing and understanding human bodies. I actually used it a lot. It's worth the price. (But there arent any shots of standing people from the top).
Truth in advertising March 3, 2008
I saw a copy of this book for all of about 5 minutes before I
knew this was it for demonstrating foreshortening in figure drawing.
I have not had much time to spend with the book in the interim, but I
fully believe it will stand up to it's promise.
 Interesting poses but would like to see more models January 15, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I happen to like the fact these are in black and white, since the simplicity of it makes you familiar with the form. I already have The Nude Figure for my other references for life drawing. As another person said, this is not the best book to get reference for illustrative foreshortening. This book is more to train your eye to capture various parts of the form in foreshortening.
I thought it was interesting how the author noted that it was difficult these days to find models because of people's need to do body alternations like piercings and tattoos.
While I find the models average, I would have liked to seen a few different models like overweight or even more athletic to get variations of the form in perspective. I wouldn't even mind old people, but I'm not sure if the elderly could perform in some of those poses.
Most of the poses are in seated or lying down positions, I remember the author saying also that a lot of poses even in perspective started looking the same.
I got some use out of the book, for the photography was clear enough for me. I also like using it as an exercise to recognize the form, like certain muscle and bone groups would look like in certain perspectives. I think too many people want to copy and not understand the true value of learning and utilizing reference.
It's not an AMAZING book, but it's still useful.
Great Visual Reference for artists! December 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're an artist like myself and have trouble imagining parts of the body in odd perspectives then this book will probably help you. It contains literally hundreds of photos of both male and female models in various angles. My only issue with this book is that sometimes a pose will spread between the two pages, loosing some of the model in the binding.
As a student I worked with drawing real models in a studio environment, and find this to be the next best thing to having a real person in front of you. This is a book any serious artist should not be without!
goooooood September 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a great material!!!! a great research book and reference!!! there really are few chances for people in arts field to gain the knowlege this book provide. Usually the best way is real life observation, but you don't have a model any time you want to draw, do you? so this book is a great material when you don't have that chance and a guide for those who want to improve his work with a real model.
My only complaint is the poor contrast on the pictures. It doesn't have to show deep black shadows but a little bit more of contrast could emphasize better different muscular groups. Any way, most of reference books are the same at end, but not this one!!! Foreshortenig is one of the hardest views to archive for artists (painters, art and human figure students, comic book artist and illustrators, etc)
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