Erotic Visions

Manfred Baumann has created a marvelous fantasy world for us in Erotic Visions. Unlike his previous publication, Just Naked, where his work captured the beauty of nude models in a more artistic setting (black & white photos using art models) this collection of work presents a more glamorous perspective - where the models are all spectacularly sexy, well endowed physically, and adorned with perfect makeup and suggestive attire (when they're not fully nude). There are scenes involving girl-on-girl erotica as well as work that appears more editorial in nature but is still laced with a powerful sexual undercurrent.

There is no grand sense of cohesion to this work, other than the fantastic quality to Baumann's photography. But that was obviously not the intention. For as the title suggests, it's about erotic visions, or individual glimpses if you will, into a secret fantasy world where beauty reigns supreme and sexuality is the raison d'etre.

Erotic Visions features 200 photos in both color and black & white.

Talk about a total piece of garbage. This "book" should have been printed on a vanity press and never shown to anyone. It feels like a weak beginners portfolio that just doesn't end. The photos show a lack of technical competency, with many highlights totally blown out. Most of the poses and shots are basically porn and not artful in anyway. The only vaguely interesting shots are the helmet newton rip-offs. There's no appropriate editing, with it being obvious only a few photo sessions were used to make the images used in the book. Instead of following a theme or grouping things, they're put all over in an attempt to make a viewer think they are fresh. He even seems to focus only on the nipples and never on any of the models eyes in his shots. Basically a good example of what a photo book should not be.