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Title: Asian Ladies (Photo Book Series) by Uwe Ommer ISBN: 3-8228-7181-8 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautifully Prepared--But That Is All.
Comment: This book is an extenceive compiliation of beautiful,and erotic (but hardly pornographic) photographs of nude and semi-nude Asian women.However,that is all that this book is.
The photographs are beautiful and tastefully taken;however, there is no data provided on who the subjects are or why they have choesn to be photographed. There is a brief written introduction,written in polyglot and very vauge,extoling the virtues of Asian women--but it is of no use to anyone in search of love or a casual encounter.
If you love erotic photography,I strongly recommend this book.However,if you are looking for pornography or a "how-to" manual for courting and/or seducing an Asain woman,you should look elsewere.
Rating: 5
Summary: Like any book, it's *great* for some, not for others
Comment: This book is titled Asian Women and features "oriental" or Southeastern Asian women rather than Indian and every other variation of the continent. I don't see that as anything to complain about. With Black Women, the author/photographer Ommer captured women of many skin tones and features, but did not shoot every type of black woman -- there were few light-skinned women, and none from the U.S. or Europe judging by their surrounding motifs -- yet that book was adored by reviewers who disliked this one. I thought both were very good, but prefer Asian Women simply because I like these photos more for various reasons.
If you consider nudes exploitative, or feel that photos of women of color that might appeal to Western males are somehow evil, please seek other types of photography to enjoy and spare yourself the moral qualms. People, Westerners and otherwise, find certain physical characteristics attractive and enjoy admiring and examining them -- even if those characteristics are primarily found among a different ethnicity. Nothing wrong with that as far as I can tell. And it doesn't explain why my wife, a fellow photography enthusiast, also likes this book.
So, if you appreciate the following: artistic nude photography (i.e., deft lighting, compostion, posing and yes, *emotion*) with a sensual twist, vibrant colors and beautiful Asian women -- who can be appreciated for any and many reasons that don't include "Western superiority" or exploitation -- than I would very highly recommend this book for you. I agree with the reviewers who likened this to some rare books from the Asahi Press in Japan. Put the political correctness aside and enjoy these photos for whatever reason you want, but be assured that visually they are both technically sound and sensually stirring.
Rating: 3
Summary: Focus On Asian Women: (The Stereotype)
Comment: There is a western stereotype that western men have about Asian women. This stereotype cuts across all geographical bounds and zeros in on the mythical, but probably non-existent image of the Asian woman as demure, sexually accomodating, and anti-feminist. In ASIAN LADIES, Owe Ommer has a pictorial on Asian women that feeds into this fantasy. The pictures are erotic, but decidedly not pornographic. They show good-looking Asian women that run the ethnic gamut from Chinese to Korean to Japanese. What this Asian spectrum reveals relates more to exposing the collective psyches of the assumed western reader than it does to the subjects themselves. As I flipped through the pages, I saw many sad-faced ladies who did not seem to know why they were chosen to be included. Any smiles they showed seemed to be nervous ones. Clearly, they were not full of the bouncy joy of life expressions that mark Playboy bunnies. So why would any western male buy this book? Perhaps he, as did I, simply may want to see a pictorial on lovely Asian women who fit nicely into the prepackaged ethnic slots that contain stereotyped images of ladies who needed a paycheck more than they did integity.
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Title: Tokyo Sex Underground by Romain Slocombe, Jack Sargeant ISBN: 184068044X Publisher: Creation Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Black Ladies by Benedikt Staff Taschen, Taschen Publishing, Benedikt Taschen Verlag ISBN: 3822881600 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title:Pure Beauties: Sena Wakana - Sweet Impact ASIN: B00004TX43 Publisher: Tai Seng Video Pub. Date: 18 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.96 |
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Title: Panties by Dave Naz, Lydia Lunch ISBN: 3936709017 Publisher: Goliath Corp. Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica by Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Maxim Jakubowski ISBN: 0786709219 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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