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Title: Pool Light by Howard Schatz, Beverly Ornstein, Owen Edwards, B. Martin Pedersen ISBN: 1-888001-47-X Publisher: Graphis Pr Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Sheer magic
Comment: A magic delight to any person with or even without sensibility.
A must see for photographers and artists. It is a source of inspiration for my paintings and sculptures.
The beauty of the human body as if we were still in Eden.
After this book I was hooked on all Schatz books.
Do not miss it.

Rating: 5
Summary: The Human form has no better friend
Comment: As a photographer, choreographer and dancer myself, I tend to be a tough sell on books which hype a photographer's mastery of the human form, particularly where dance or dancers are concerned. But such is my appreciation, and awe, of what Schatz has accomplished in his water studies that I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw that he had published "Pool Light."

Less a book about dancers than about the incredible beauty of the human body, "Pool Light," transcends the very things which frustrate us as movers. In this book, the photographer and his models make us believe in both flight and fantasy. They inspire us to see shape unihibited by gravity or earthly confines. And they succeed in taking nudity, within a photographic environment, out of the controversial realms of "indecency" and restoring it to art in the way the great painters have seen it.

Technically, the work is nothing short of a marvel. Great photography, like any great art, deceives the viewer into believing that what they see is so easy, so natural, as to be routinely simple. In "Pool Light," we see none of the sweat, none of the frustration and aches (and presumably water-logged participants), which must certainly have gone into each image. Instead, we are invited simply to see that most classic of forms, and ancient of muses, the human figure, shown, through the most contemporary of techniques, in a way which celebrates both even as it transcends our sense of their limitations.

Rating: 5
Summary: Sets the benchmark
Comment: I have now bought three copies of this book, one for my house in London, one for my house in the country, and one which I cut up - so I could frame and hang my favourites. It IS that good: this is a truly-wonderful collection. Howard Schatz is a great photographer and in Pool Light he sets the benchmark.

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Title: Water Dance by Howard Schatz, B. Martin Pedersen ISBN: 1888001208 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95