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Title: Orientalia: Sex In Asia by Reagan Louie, Tracy Quan ISBN: 1-57687-186-X Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Was hoping for a little more
Comment: This book consist up a couple short essays/comments at the beginning and end with photos taking up all the inner pages. All the captions are at the back of the book instead of aligned with each photo as I would have hoped. I was looking for these captions, for more of a mix of photos/text to provide a little background into these womens lives. How or why they decided upon this lifestyle--families to take care of, survival, more money to enjoy the finer things in life, abuse, etc. Perhaps a third of the photos are nudes or partial nudes. Some are pretty good but overall I couldn't see into these womens lives without a little background help. A little more depth than photos was what I wanted, but this book is a photo book, not a graphic novel. So if you want the photos and details you might want to pass.
Rating: 1
Summary: Orientalia: Tourist View Of The Underground
Comment: My expectations of this book was to have access to the vast dimensions of the asian sex world that expands from passion to the sad reality of sexual slavery.
I had hoped that Tracy Quan could bring this distant world to me through photographs that infiltrated beyond the surface into the very core of this interesting subject.
What I found instead was a mediocre account of various Asian women involved in the sex trade of several countries.
Quan seems to lack depth in her vision of portraying the essence of human suffering behind the scenes.
What I see is a snap shot collection of boredom amoung women in a world that seems to have few doors. There is nothing intriguing about these pictures. No sense of having any access beyond what might be considered the surface images of women at work..
The book lacks mystery. The images are simplisticly selfish
in the sense that there is nothing to wonder about beyond these subjects sitting around over lit rooms, talking on the phone, staring in mirriors, or just sleeping..
One does get a glimpse of sisterhood, of some unifying force that keeps these women from total isolation, but again it is so borderline uncommited to anything substantial, that it fades with my interst from page to page..
Overall, this is a very weak viewpoint into a world that conceals far more drama and suffering than the artist was able to capture..
Rating: 5
Summary: prostitutes are people!
Comment: This book helps us to see that prostitutes are daughters, sisters, mothers, too. Some of the women are beautiful, some are plain. Some are posing erotically, others are sitting fully clothed, some happy, some sad --yes, prostitutes are people, too. As you can see from other reviews, this message is still needed, this is a very moving and meaningful book.
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Title: Photo Sex: Fine Art Sexual Photography Comes of Age by David Steinberg, A.D. Coleman ISBN: 0940208326 Publisher: Down There Pr Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Naked Happy Girls by Andrew Einhorn, Emma Jane Taylor ISBN: 3936709033 Publisher: Scb Distributors Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl : A Novel by Tracy Quan ISBN: 0609810103 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Luba by Petter Hegre ISBN: 3283004471 Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Crazy Babe by Bob Coulter ISBN: 3936709041 Publisher: Scb Distributors Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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