Badessi, Laurent Elie — Skin

Stemmle, 2000 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 143 pages. Text in English. Clean, tight and fresh copy with minimal signs of use. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in full-page, black-and-white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. “Between commercial assignments as a fashion photographer, Laurent Elie Badessi has, for the past ten years, pursued his own artistic quest, placing nudes in dramatic landscapes and melding contrasts of texture and shape into images of harmony and natural beauty. With elegant minimalism, he extrapolates the harmony between opposites of black and white, man and nature, fluid curves and straight lines.” 144 pages. “The appeal of this unique work on the human form is complemented and enhanced by the contribution of 63 world-famous artists and personalities from the fields of art, fashion, film, dance, music and literature, each of whom has dedicated a very personal, handwritten and signed commentary to a selected photo from Badessi's series.”