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Naked Rooms Hardcover – January 1, 2004

by Peter Gorman (Author), Marilyn Jaye Lewis (Author)
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  1. Print length
    366 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Goliath
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2004
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 1 x 7.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    3936709025
  7. ISBN-13
    978-3936709025
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Photographer Peter Gorman s approach to the female nude is not only unique, it s unforgettable. If you re a fan of artistic photography, or certainly of erotic photography, as I am, you might come across one of Gorman s photos at Nerve, Salon, or in the Australian fine art magazine Black + White and instantly recall if you ve been exposed to his work before. The images are never less than startling, provocative; sometimes strangely claustrophobic, but always memorable.

This is Gorman s follow-up to his much praised monograph, Naked in Apartment 7 (Goliath, 2001), the black & white collection where Gorman managed to capture the often overpowering erotic presence of model after model in the tight confines of his tiny New York apartment. This time, Gorman takes us deeper into the intimate realm of real women, by traveling throughout the five boroughs of New York City to photograph his models where they live.

Now, in full color, Gorman exposes us to Wall Street brokers, college students, law enforcement investigators, commercial pilots, actresses, artists, dancers; women as varied as the places they call home. Yet they share one thing in common: a willingness to uncover their bodies for the photographer and be photographed naked in their own rooms.

From film to digital; from the comfort of his home to the unpredictability of other people s apartments; from the stationary confines of strobe lighting to the mobility of one hand-held flash. These are a few of the significant shifts in direction Naked Rooms undertakes and the shifts have led to some decidedly entertaining new terrains.

As a rule, Gorman prefers to use models who are unfamiliar to him in order to resist creating preconceived stories for his photographs. For the photo sessions in Naked Rooms, he also asked each model to resist the urge to clean her apartment prior to the shoot to keep the atmosphere as un-staged as possible. The result is that each photo has managed to capture a complex personal tableau in addition to an intimacy that s sometimes as disquieting as it is erotic.

"I never know before hand," Gorman states, "how a model is going to behave in front of the camera, the level of exhibitionism that s going to emerge. Sometimes the models who are the most shy and retiring are the ones who really come alive when the camera is on them. For the Naked Rooms sessions, since I was only using one hand-held flash, I basically told each model that I was going to chase her around her apartment with my camera. I had to have confidence that, as unpredictable as that was, somehow it was all going to work." And here are the results of just how well that idea came together. Prepare to discover what real women are really up to when they re getting naked in their own rooms.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Goliath; First Edition (January 1, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 366 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3936709025
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3936709025
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.91 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 7.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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Marilyn Jaye Lewis

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Marilyn Jaye Lewis is an award-winning writer, editor, scriptwriter, playwright, songwriter, short subject film producer and multi-media producer.

Author of 5 published novels and some 50+ published short stories, Marilyn is also the head writer for the theatrical production company of the NYC-based African-American transgender actor, Sandra Caldwell. Currently, they are in pre-production for two original musical theater projects: Tell My Bones, for production in NYC (adapted from Marilyn’s award-winning screenplay about the life of Kentucky-based painter Helen LaFrance); and The Guide to Being Fabulous, being produced in Toronto, Canada.

She is also half of the writing-producing duo, Abstract Absurdity Productions, a micro-short comedy film production company based in West Hollywood, CA.

Her original TV pilot, the racially charged Cleveland’s Burning, is currently in development with Bohemia Group Originals in Los Angeles. Scoring high on the Black List, Cleveland’s Burning was also a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival, as well as a semi-finalist in L.A.’s Industry Insider TV Pilot competition.

Notably, her screenplay, Tell My Bones, the life story of Kentucky Outsider Artist, Helen LaFrance, won the Best Voice of Color category in the Cleveland Independent Film Festival.

In addition to Cleveland’s Burning, projects for television that she is developing with Bohemia Group Originals in Los Angeles include an online streaming limited series, Freak Parade, based on her award-winning erotic novel of the same name.

For the first 25 years of her professional literary career, Marilyn was known primarily in the international erotic arts community as not only a writer and editor, but also a publisher, an art curator, and a multi-media producer. Her award-winning erotic short stories and novella collections have been translated into many different languages, including French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian.

As editor, Lewis’s anthologies include Stirring up a Storm: Tales of the Sensual, the Sexual, and the Erotic, (Running Press) — nominated for 3 Pushcart Prizes for Short Fiction and featuring short fiction by Selma Blair, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood, among many others.

She is the author of the critically acclaimed modern erotic fiction classic, Neptune & Surf. Called “a sensational debut” by The Guardian newspaper in London, Neptune & Surf was also selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Ten Summer Reads for 1999. Hailed by the American Book Review as “reminiscent of Sergio Leone’s ‘Once Upon A Time in America’”, Neptune & Surf has remained in print in the United States and Europe for over 20 uninterrupted years.

In the late 1990’s, when the Internet was in its infancy, as President of Marilyn’s Room, Inc. Marilyn was Executive Producer on numerous online spoken word recordings for fiction authors and poets, and produced groundbreaking live video and audio webcasts of spoken word performances in conjunction with Broadcast.com and Pseudo.com. As web mistress, her erotic multi-media sites won numerous awards, in particular inclusion in Playboy’s Online Hall of Fame for her groundbreaking erotic fiction website Other-Rooms.com.

She was the founder of the Erotic Authors Association, the first American organization to honor literary excellence in the erotic genre, and was its Executive Director from 2001 – 2006.

Ms. Lewis’ collection of memoirs, Entangled Lives: Memoirs of 7 Top Erotica Writers (Alyson Books), upon publication was a front page feature on SMITHmagazine.net and was nominated for a 2007 Lambda Literary Award.

Her popular erotic romance novels include When Hearts Collide (2003) and When the Night Stood Still (2004) and were distributed exclusively by Barnes & Noble nationwide.

She was co-editor of the international best-selling art book, The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography (Constable UK). Her erotic short stories and novellas have appeared in numerous anthologies in the United States and Europe and have won many citations and awards, including the New Century Writers Award and finalist in the William Faulkner Writing Competition.

In 1998, as head writer for ROM Antics, Inc. in New York City, her work was highlighted on HBO, won an AVN award for Best Adult CD ROM game of 1998 (DADAhouse), and received critical recognition in Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice, and other national media outlets.

In the 1980s, Marilyn Jaye Lewis was a popular New York City-based singer-songwriter. Primarily known in Greenwich Village, two of her earliest compositions, produced on vinyl by Jack Hardy’s Speakeasy Co-Op, are now in the Smithsonian, on Folkways Records.

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Joaquin del Castello Gilbert
5.0 out of 5 stars A Courageous NEW Direction for Peter Gorman
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2004
Peter Gorman shot to fame in 2001 with the publication of his first book, Naked in Apartment 7, where he photographed, in black & white, a range of nude females within the confines of his New York apartment. He changes course here in Naked Rooms, shooting entirely in color and on location in the home of each of his models, who range from stock brokers to commercial pilots to law enforcement professionals. There is also a sense of movement in much of this work, blurred movements, action, and we know some of this is from Peter's approach to his photo-sessions where he instructed his subjects to roam around the house with him "chasing" them. That's key to what makes this such an exciting body of work, there's very little sense that anything was staged or even prepped for the photo-session. It's fast. It's quick. It's raw. It's a kinetic journey into the private chambers of these attractive, young women .. and that they are naked makes it all the sweeter. This is a great book, but it's an even more interesting study of an art photographer who's wholly unafraid to take chances ... and that's VERY cool!
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Photophile
2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting idea, uninteresting photographs
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2006
I am usually a fan of Peter Gorman's work. However, 'Naked Rooms' was a complete disapointment. The concept for the collection of nudes had great potential. Gorman photographed numerous women in their own apartments, even instructing them not to clean up too much, in order to capture his models in their own environments. The premise is fantastic; photographing models in their own surroundings opens up a multitude of options for capturing the personalities of the models. Gorman fails in this respects. Few of the photographs offer any insight into the lives or personalities of the models. The use of a single flash lends the photographs a 'snapshot' quality that leaves several of the photographs rather flat. I was hoping to see a collection of candid photos that would express the personalities of the models or offer a peek into their everyday lives. Instead, the photos were, with a few exceptions, dull and uninspired. The models frequently look uninterested and even unhappy in front of the camera. Very few photographs felt candid, instead they appeared half staged. In fact the best offerings were photographs that were clearly staged. Photographs of uninterested models half nude in the shower seemed almost like an insult to the potential of this book. Almost the entire collections looks as if it was shot by an amateur with a disposable camera, not the work of an artist of Gorman's calibur. Save your money and avoid this book; it pales in comparison to Gorman's other works, particularly 'Naked in Apartment 7' which has a similar fell, but is much more engaging, artistic, and entertaining.
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Photopro
4.0 out of 5 stars [a] masterpiece
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2003
This book is really really good. I didn't know what to think when I got it in the mail. It was my first Gorman experience. First off, these are the woman that we see everyday of our lives. The woman that walk past us on the street. They are all in private living situations. The privace of their own homes, or so it seems. Some of the models are clothed, some not, some half undressed, but what is nice is they are all very very different. There are unattractive, very attractive models and models of all races.
Gorman captures these woman in the situations that we all go though during the week. Photos of woman in the shower, eating, sitting, even masterbating. This is a very [explicit] book. Period. I loved it. After buying this book, I am going off to get his first book "Naked in Apartment 7".
The only flaw I found in this book was its size. It is about the size of a trade paperback book. Pretty small. So some of the pictures you have to strain to see, and some that take up two pages, you will find the model right smack in the crease of the book, ruining the picture. Other than that small complaint I have, I loved the book. Add this to you collection.
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Yuri Syuganov
5.0 out of 5 stars another great addition to my recommended photo albums list
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2003
If you ever tried to take pictures in a real-life environment, in a small apartment, not in studio, you could know it's not the easiest thing to do to make it looking interesting. Look through this book. It's so simple, and it's so... art.
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chicoer2003
4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Photos
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2004
What makes this better than Nude apartments is that the photos are in black & white. In the previous book, the photos were 2d. Color makes the photos deeper and with more emotion.
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2.0 out of 5 stars What is the point of a photo book with 70% of them out of focus?
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2007
Ok, granted the idea of having a group of very average girls (but no fat ones) photographed naked in their apartments (Which must not be arraigned to look tidy. It shall stay just as it is, as if the photographer walked in unexpectedly) is interesting, and because the models are the ones who dictate what they are going to do, and not Mr. Morgan, there is a spontaneity about them which is great and some (but very few) are intensely erotic because of their honesty.

However, how find to rhyme or reason for selecting a large group of them out of focus, to show movement? Its looks more like the photos taken by a friend from school who does not have a clue about how to graduate the speed of light in the camera. Do not waste your money on this book.
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