Product Description

Bel Ami's new book is a frenzy of sensuality - the highlight of the season! You've never seen Bel Ami like this! Renowned photographer Benno Thoma took shots of the lads of the world-famous porn company showing Lukas, Sebastian and the rest in perfectly gorgeous photos. They're emotional like never before, set against lavish backdrops and in masterfully composed erotic images. Benno Thoma is undoubtedly an artist - he bathes his models in luxuriously sensual colours. His sense of style makes this 180-page book of photos in opulent large format into a sensually stunning synthesis of art. It is the momentary highpoint of Bel-Ami photo books. A milestone of gay photography!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #583731 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-30
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

About the Author
Photographer and director George Duroy produced his fi rst gay hardcore fi lm in 1994. With INTIMATE FRIENDS (1996) he published his fi rst photo book with Bruno Gmünder Publishing. Many more followed and the name Bel Ami has become a gay legend. The Dutch fashion and advertising photographer Benno Thoma has been travelling the world for years. With his current four books of photography he has always demonstrated his excellent sense for erotic moods and his unmistakable imagery provides his photographs with a high level of recognition.

Customer Reviews

Not what I expected
This is not exactly what I thought I would be getting seeing as this was a Bel Ami product. I purchased this book for my boyfriend who is a big fan of Bel Ami and their typical frisky and youthful models. We found the models in this book to be more stoic than being fun and interactive, more manly than boyish, more muscled than twinkish. The models are definitely beautiful as is the photography...but do not expect this book to be typical Bel Ami.

Monumentally Sized Twin Summits from Bel Ami of Colour & B&W Male Nude Photography Respectively by Benno Thoma & Howard Roffman
I agree with the assessment, on Amazon.com's Canadian sister site (Amazon.ca) by Amazon user Adam D. Dunn of this very beautiful, sweetly erotic collection of male nudes. However, I do feel that the collection (in b&w photography) by Howard Roffman, The Boys of Bel Ami, to which Dunn compares the book by Thoma, is at least equally fine (and for me, slightly superior, but, really, that is a matter of taste). Discussing my own summation of the merits of the collections of photography respectively by Benno Thoma and by Howard Roffman, makes (I hope) for useful comments to aid the buyer in choosing between these two most massive (so far) of nude male photography from Bel Ami studios.

Rare are those who look through Around the Globe, the book by Thoma, who will be indifferent to his photos of strikingly attractive young males. One of the nicest assets, among so many fine ones, of the colour photographs by Thoma, is the excellence of rear shots; Thoma knows supremely well how to photograph the buttocks of a young man to maximum allure! Nearly all of the photographs, however, are highly appealing, be they frontal, rear, or side shots, in the collections alike of the work of Thoma and Roffman.

The heart of my assessment, quoting myself, of Roffman's The Boys of Bel Ami is this: "The youthful men [whom Roffman photographed], in their teens and early twenties, very often in full frontal nudity, are exquisitely lithe, graceful, lovely, and agreeably or outright impressively well-hung, each memorably good-looking in his own way that varies from one to another, some 'lean and lanky' while others more sleekly and/or heavily muscled in a more forthrightly macho way, still others, by contrast, more endearingly pretty (sweetly juvenile, lovely, and tender), yet others just a bit raffish or lovably gangly rather than so classically handsome". Bel Ami's models working for Roffman, in all their glorious variety, make for an even wider range of the manifestations of male beauty, although there is a pleasing array of physical types, from one young male to another, in the book by Thoma as well.

"Whether one prefers Roffman's Boys of Bel Ami or Benno Thoma's equally copiously large Around the Globe (which features among Thoma's naked lads some of the same male models in Roffman's book) probably is largely a matter of taste, e.g. a preference for mostly colour photography (Thoma's) or entirely black-and-white camera work (Roffman's), or for the sensibility of one photographer over the other's; both books and the young men posing mostly nude therein, are consummately lovely examples of erotic photography at its best."

Few readers (i.e. viewers!) are likely to find the lads of either book uninteresting, in the way that Mr. Dunn seems to be so indifferent to the choice and photographic depiction of the young guys that Roffman delivered. If the buyer can afford it, he should obtain both books!

David J Levitt " Around The Globe" New York USA
I can't say enough about how beautiful the book is. The photography is,well the only word I can use,perfect. The men in the book are hand picked for their physical beauty and the photographer knows how to enhance their perfection. I love the size of this book, oversize and done to perfection. I want to thank Amazon for not only offering this book but also at a great discount price I could not find this price anywhere else. I have brought several books from Amazon since I received this one and will continue to buy from them. Their customer service is the best and their prices are are way below other online stores or bookstores, even here in New York.Thank You Amazon and keep up the good work