sculptor's human model

Author: Claudio Alexandri (Photography), Yi Yi (Translation)
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: For years, the author has been dedicated to photographing women who have never had experience in human photography and have no professional photography background. These portrait works showcasing different women's bodies strongly express their desires, natural temperament, and joy. In traditional art, female nudity generally does not appear in the same work, let alone in the head, mostly not because of the model's shyness, but rather due to the interest of the sculptor, painter, or photographer. This book is entirely different. What leaves a deep impression after flipping through it are the charming and confident faces, rather than a clear silhouette of the buttocks. In this photographic collection, as the beginning of a personal creation, Alexandri cautiously and firmly immersed himself in ordinary women, placing them in his bold dreams or in front of a mirror at home. From young to old, 48 women made him and themselves think of an ancient proverb: "Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder." No one asked for payment, and no one prohibited the publication of this book, because all of them found that the nudity they displayed. Photographer Claudio Alexandri said that these women's faces prompted him to ask them to sit down. That half of them—not the bodies—everyone can guess, but their faces, their radiance, awakened his curiosity about their forms.