Stefan May 196635 — Couples

teNeues, 2002, Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, 128, (...) Stefan May's photographs seem to exude pheromones. They're all about couples who come together and part, about bodies attrackted by what seem to be enormous magnets that eat up their emotions, their sexuality and their togetherness with the sense of complicity that comes from black and white, the colours of psychological introspection. ... Stefan's snapshots combine an ability to freeze a familiar gesture (one of the great publicity photographers' own techniques) and a passion for the geometry of body shapes (a habbit closer to the world of aesthetes of the objective). ... The sheer sense of movement in this photographs doesn't mean that there isn't room to reveal some hidden depth on the part of one of his subjects, even if these are men and women alone. But when they are couples, the mysterious alchemy woven by pheromones makes for an unforgettable book - called \"Couples\", of course. (..., Redelijk