The Naked and the Lens: A Guide to Nude Photography

This book is surprisingly well written, detailed and an almost perfect guide for amateur photographers to learn the complicated style needed for nude photography. You are not just getting a book with a lot of naked pictures, mind you there are a lot, but they have context. The book is split into 3 important sections: concept, composition, taking the actual photo. There is fourth part that has some interviews with photographers and their craft. So how good are the sections? Well, they are richly detailed for the laymen, and can get anyone with a camera started in their path to being called a heathen by their local religious zealots. It takes courage to experiment for the sake of art, at least here you get a good tool in your path. It’s not a perfect tool, at times it gets muddy. The digital technique section will be out of date faster than your facebook status changes. So try to get the analog part of the work down.