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Red (Dylan Rosser)

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Synopsis

To shoot pictures with a timeless character is the aim of Dylan Rosser. That is why he is seeking perfection in each and every picture he designs...

In Red he plays with the color of love, of sensuality and sexuality, which lends a new dimension to his images.

3 Reasons To buy this book

It's the color of love and lust.
Rosser has an incredible talent for lighting his models' bodies.
This is a wonderfully romantic collection with a touch of raw lust.

Review

Originally from South Africa, but now based in London, Dylan Rosser is a star on the rise. A cutie in his own right, Rosser manages to find some beautiful men to pose for him. Some of the men in Red are models and others are porn stars. It is the models’ impeccable bodies and strikingly handsome faces that are the stars of each image. Because most of the men are European there is a lot of uncut goodness on these pages. And we mean a LOT! There are some impressive pieces on display here and an impressive array of men of all types – smooth, hairy, pretty, rugged, cute, handsome, etc. Our favorite is the stud with a little Mohawk and ridiculous body.

We weren’t crazy about some of the models’ styling but that is just personal taste (long hair just isn’t our thing). Some of the guys look like they might be better suited for a porn rag from the ‘80s. This can be forgiven though because the majority of men are so incredibly attractive.

While this collection isn’t too incredibly different from his first book, x-posed, he has adopted a theme with the color red. Every image is touched by the color of sex, lust and passion. Whether with fabric or lighting, the color red doesn’t saturate the images but lends a sometimes haunting, sometimes sexy layer.

Once again Rosser demonstrates that he knows how to make the light play off the taut skin of his models. There is not one stitch of clothing on the men and while we don’t think red was the best theme to go with, it certainly doesn’t take anything away from the gorgeous naked men on display.

-- Nick Strathern

Product Format Information

Book Hardcover: $59.99

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Dimensions: 9 X 11
Photos: Color
ISBN: 9783867870429
Catalog #: BH2924822

Publisher : Bruno Gmunder

Customer Reviews

RED: Dylan Rosser's Most Successful Photographic Monograph to Date

gradyharp wrote on 03/23/2010:

For those familiar with Dylan Rosser's art the fact that his beginnings as a graphic artist and his accompanying mastery of creating images by manipulating light, shadow, angles and props is well appreciated. His previous books and his art work, as displayed in galleries and museums, are remarkably fine yet now seem mere black and white and color preparation for this latest sophisticated, extraordinarily beautiful collection of camera sculpted friezes of the nude male introducing the theme of the color red to unite this magnificent gallery on paper. As Jason Salzenstein writes in his excellent Foreword 'In this volume, for the first time, Rosser worked from the impetus of a theme, having been drawn to the color representing energy, love, lust and passion. The most emotionally intense color, only Rosser could harness the conflicted intensity behind this fervid shade and transform it into a visual odyssey as told through the stunning bodies of his men. The result is RED.'

What follows in this elegantly designed, color saturated book is a selection of designed images, each focusing on a male figure and each employing an enormous spectrum of creative uses of the color red. At times the models are draped in red, suspended in red cloth, caressed in red gauze, ribboned in red, or perhaps the red is so subtle that study of the photograph slowly reveals that there is red backlighting, or a spot of red in an isolated tattoo, or the floor or background happens to have a red hue. What makes Rosser's art unique is the dignity with which he poses his models, presenting them more as a part of the message of the image of sensuality rather than the sole focal point. These models become sculptures, without ever losing the fact that they are warmly living, intensely masculine males.

In RED Dylan Rosser enters a new plateau in photography - especially figurative photography - in that his images approach another dimension of fine art: Music. This book is bound to rapidly become a collector's item and will doubtless be included in important museum curated exhibitions. Highly recommended.