- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: powerHouse Books; 1 edition (Nov 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1576870863
- ISBN-13: 978-1576870860
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 3.6 x 26.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,070,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Three years ago, photographer Greg Gorman created for powerHouse Books the most personal work of his career. This epic artist’s project features carefully selected young men—not big or overly built—who exemplify for Gorman a perfected state, allowing him to frame grace, beauty, and elegance in the form of the male nude. Included amongst the 212 portraits are many of Gorman’s friends and acquaintances, as well as professional models, many of whom had never posed nude before. The initial release of the book went on to become a best-seller.
The cumulative effect of As I See It creates a pleasurable zone of contemplation, allowing one to reexamine the precepts of beauty within a refreshing framework of exalted maleness. According to Gorman, “As I see it, they’re not really boys, yet they’re not really men. They are caught somewhere in between—almost at that point of maturity that defines masculinity.”
“The display of the male body has been fraught with significance for centuries....Gorman portrays the male body without stripping it bare of power or poignance. It’s a new approach to an old, old idea.”
—American Photo
The cumulative effect of As I See It creates a pleasurable zone of contemplation, allowing one to reexamine the precepts of beauty within a refreshing framework of exalted maleness. According to Gorman, “As I see it, they’re not really boys, yet they’re not really men. They are caught somewhere in between—almost at that point of maturity that defines masculinity.”
“The display of the male body has been fraught with significance for centuries....Gorman portrays the male body without stripping it bare of power or poignance. It’s a new approach to an old, old idea.”
—American Photo
About the Author
Greg Gorman’s books include Just Between Us (Arena, 2002), Perspectives (Leonardo Arte, 1999), Inside Life (Rizzoli, 1997), and Greg Gorman: Volume II (Treville, 1992). Gorman has taught at the Santa Fe, Toscana, and Albion River Inn photographic workshops. He has lectured at UCLA, the International Center of Photography, the University of Southern California, the University of Kansas, the Brooks Institute of Photography, and IADL in Lisbon. A native of Kansas City, Gorman lives in Los Angeles.
Elton John, an avid collector of photography and a pop star with more than fifteen number one albums and even knighthood under his belt, is one of the most widely loved and commercially successful entertainers of the last thirty years.
John Hurt, the two-time Academy Award–winning actor, is internationally renowned as one of the best stage and film performers of our time. Included in his more than one hundred film appearances are the classics A Man For All Seasons, The Elephant Man, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Elton John, an avid collector of photography and a pop star with more than fifteen number one albums and even knighthood under his belt, is one of the most widely loved and commercially successful entertainers of the last thirty years.
John Hurt, the two-time Academy Award–winning actor, is internationally renowned as one of the best stage and film performers of our time. Included in his more than one hundred film appearances are the classics A Man For All Seasons, The Elephant Man, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Their beauty transcends all time.,
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This review is from: As I See It (Hardcover)
American men are generally ashamed of their bodies, often with good reason. The beautiful youngmen who appear nude in "As I See It" are proud of their masculine beauty and are willing to share it with others. Even more impressive, though some of these men are celebrities, they don't seem to worry that appearing naked in an art book might ruin their careers. As for the artist involved, Greg Gorman is a world-class photographer who is uniquely qualified to capture their perfect moment in time.
4.0 out of 5 stars
The simplicity of beauty.,
By bentleystudio (ABQ, NM) - See all my reviews
This review is from: As I See It (Hardcover)
Greg Gorman presents beautiful, sometimes androgynous, young men in this thick book of back and white photographs.First of all, the book construction is excellent, with glossy pages that complement Gorman's use of high contrast lighting environments. On some pages the large areas of black ink have speckled in spots, this seems to be the only flaw in construction, otherwise the printing is excellent. Like Alfred Stieglitz's simple but profound portraits of Georgia O'Keefe, Gorman presents simple images in stark environments, dark in tone, where the sitter is actively engaged in the attempted acheivement of photograhic perfection. Gorman creates mini-portfolios of each sitter - the images come from one, sometimes more, sessions - and most often presents the model in several variations of the same pose. This strategy allows the viewer to experience the work as a duration of time, rather than a moment in time. Gorman's simplified cubistic aproach works to imbue his work with humanity, spaciousness and enough of a measure of originality to set his work in the upper strata of photograhers within his genre.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Response to Keith,
By A Customer
This review is from: As I See It (Hardcover)
First of all, the human body is the most beautiful of God's creations. The only thing that is wrong about the naked human body is the fact that much of the Western World has created a taboo regarding it; uncomfortable dealing with our own sensuality and sexuality. Second of all, and more to the point, if "many times [you] felt so nauseated looking at it that you had to put it down," why did you keep picking it up? Simply making an observation.
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