I got the book by your suggestion Morten and have to say I am a bit dissapointed.
Sure, the selection of photographs is good, considering they even use classics like Bill Bradt's nudes, but most of the would not quallify as erotic in my opinion.
Most of the photographs are nudes. Good nudes. Pretty nudes. Artistic nudes.
Then there are the glamorous-fashion-pseudo-erotic ones. These come off to me as someone -trying hard- to be erotic but in the end being just a glamour fashion shot. Like Helmut Newton's.
Even the whips-spanking-chain-leather variety even though they definately could be seen as an "erotic sort" did not in my opinion contain the energy of eroticism.
So, I would categorise the photos in the book as either the fine art nudes or the glamorous fashion "erotics".
For me eroticism is subtle yet deep. It is hinted, not thrown in your face. Especially in photography which because of advertisement has made common the "in your face" sexuallity.
Btw, the obvious and only subject of eroticism is the female body in the book. So for those who appreciate the sexuallity of men, though luck. And it is really about the body, meaning there is no images that hint to eroticism without including a naked or sexually clad female.
I don't know. I am the kind of guy who finds Playboy, Penthouse, Maxim chicks and photography really boring and unnattractive and falls asleep in front of a "hardcore" porno movie becaue it reminds me of nature-documentary about copulation not eroticism.
In my viewpoint, a good book about nudes and glamour but hardly worth the title.
