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Physique: An Intimate Portrait of the Female Fitness Athlete
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$22.95
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Manufacturer: Thunder's Mouth Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.24092
EAN: 9781560251453
ISBN: 156025145X
Label: Thunder's Mouth Press
Manufacturer: Thunder's Mouth Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 1997-03-04
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Studio: Thunder's Mouth Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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Renowned for his photography of all types and shapes of women, Paul Goode presents a pictorial celebration of female fitness athletes -- Fitness competition is a popular new genre of bodybuilding, focusing on the total athlete -- qualities of grace and beauty, along with physical attributes, earn high marks -- Contains 200 B&W photos portraying the top contenders in the field with text about their careers For more than a decade, Paul Goode's celebrated photographs of bodybuilders and women athletes have graced the pages of books and magazines. He has photographed virtually every major competitor in bodybuilding and in fitness; competition, a sport that recognizes grace, beauty, and health along with muscular physique. The advent of this new fitness competition -- which is ideal for women athletes who believe in weight training but stay away from hardcore bodybuilding because of its bulk and lack of femininity -- make for a rich variety of photographic subjects for Goode. His black-and-white stills of these beautiful women have been collected for Physique and feature such top fitness competitors as Carol Semple, Mia Finnegan, and Debbie Kruck. Unlike the bodybuilders he has photographed, Goode says these women are less concerned with the portrayal of their muscles than with the overall look of their physique. Their facial expressions are as important as their bodies, and bikinis and leotards -- traditional attire for bodybuilding models -- give way to clothing, draped fabrics, and in some cases, nothing. The best of the resulting photographs of some of the most beautiful female bodies in the world are displayed in this artistic collection. Goode's goal, he says, is to showoff the women not as sexual objects, but as women proud of their physical accomplishments.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: The golden age...
Comment: I loved this book. This book represents the end of an era. When female fitness competitors still looked like women. Its really sad that as womens fitness has evolved hyper-muscularity and super ripped conditioning has become the standard.
All the photos are black and white and I love that about this book. Models like Mia Finnegan, Monica Brant, April Moore, Carol Semple, Ahmo Height, Sharon Bruneau ....most of them long gone from the fitness biz. If you miss the era when womens fitness emerged to try to salvage what was left of the few female physique fans still around you will really enjoy this book. The photos are mostly nudes or with minimal cover like gauze and the like.....
I thought this was infinitely better than Bill Dobbins "The Women."
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Summary: Beautiful fitness competitors
Comment: Excellent book with artistic pictures of beautiful women. The text is a little sugary but the pictures more than make up for it. My biggest moan is that the book wasn't longer or the pages bigger....Monica Brant, April Moore,...ahhh! Not for those who like grotesquely veined parodies of the female form.
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Summary: Weak photography and mostly unattractive women
Comment: I was thoroughly unimpressed with the quality of the photography in this book. It seemed fairly lifeless to me. It didn't help that the women in general are not attractive. Even the paper quality of the pages seemed to make the photos even more dull. This ones going to be returned.
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Summary: Very Beautiful
Comment: The photographs are very beautiful, especially those of Ericca Kern. Though not as good as "The Women," it is still very Goode.
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Summary: An artistic vision of the ideal feminine form.
Comment: Very simply, this is a photo book consisting of top female fitness competitors and a few of the more marketable female bodybuilders. The style of the photography is fairly artistic and doesn't always bring the full beauty of the physiques to light, but other times is very flattering and interesting. The text is marginally interesting, but since that's not what the book is about it doesn't detract very much from the overall experience.
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