ISBN: 0789313073
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Summary: Wow!
This book is amazing! I bought it for a good friend of mine as a birthday present, and now it has become one that everyone asks for! The pictures are beautiful and these men's bodies are incredible! A very tasteful and aesthetically pleasing collection!
Summary: If Madonna likes it then it must be pleasing
This book was originally published in France last year, and I was very eager to see a US release. Although, there is very little text in the book (only on the inside cover, and at the very end it gives the players' names and ages.) "Looker Room Nudes" is a photo book.
I purchased from Amazon.com for only $[...] with free shipping and I found this to be an excellent price. Because this is a very luxurious, oversized, hardcover book. And, for a book of this quality and magnitude I would have been glad to pay at least double that price, plus shipping.
As an openly homosexual man I am only too elated to display this visual tome on my coffee table. Because all the men are angelic, the photos are very tasteful, and the pictures are interesting.
Please know that none of the pictures inside the book can be described as crass or vulgar at all. Instead, the majority of the pictures inside are of their faces, backs, and muscular chests. There is only one fully nude picture of a statuesque lord sitting down with his uncircumcised penis exposed for all to gaze at. There is also a snippet in the front of the book by superstar Madonna, in French.
In my humble opinion "Dieux du Stade" is pure art. All the pictures inside this book are stunning black and white. Francois Rousseau managed to reveal each man at their strongest and most vulnerable simultaneously. I recommend this book to anyone that appreciates top-quality photography, art, or the delicate nude male form.
Summary: The Book Outshines even the Dieux du Stade Calendars and Videodiscs!
The extraordinarily beautiful and lavishly produced calendars and videodiscs that have come out year by year of photography, of supremely fine calibre, of the rugby players who are members of the team, Dieux du Stade, Paris, and of their "guests", i.e. other rugby players from teams all over the world, have become iconographic monuments of the nude and nearly-nude male body. However, this book, drawing upon the wealth of photos and stills from the videos, perhaps inlucding yet other images as well of the same and perhaps other men, surpasses even previous products.
This book is gorgeous; it is overwhelming; it is an exalted tribute to the male body and to the god-like figure of the professional athlete. There is something almost supernatural at times in the supernal beauty and naturalness, as Rousseau captures them for immortality, of these varied and magnificent men that makes one tremble, not just with sexual arousal (but that, too, and how!), but with wonder at the sheer grace, strength, and allure of the male human form and of the photographer's art.
Judging from the copyrights, which are given up to 2007, well in the future at the time of the book's publication, one presumes that there are images and probably players, too, not yet included in the videodiscss and calendars that have come out to date.
This is a lavish book and more than well worth its price, a fine monographic tribute to the photographer, Francois Rousseau, as well as to such men who, astoundingly, have been permitting themselves to be photographed so intimately. There is little written text, so whether the buyer is English- or French-speaking (or of any other language), the book will be a worthwhile purchase for truly anyone, anywhere in the world. Women and gay men will thrill at these photos, but so will lovers more generally of the nude in art of Rousseau's level as he has attained it with the camera!
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