Product Description

By drawing strength and inspiration from nature's majesty, as well as from the harmony and grace in the movement of the female body, this collection entitled Woman's Light has been created. A celebration, a photographic journey, a collection of images and poetry that provides a lyrical and fluid setting for 25 years of work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1557169 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 108 pages

Review
Let us enjoy not only with the eyes, but the eyes of the soul these brilliant photographs and poems. -- Alkis X. Xanthakis, Historian of Photography Photography Magazine, Athens, Greece April, 2004

About the Author
Manolis Tsantakis was born in 1958 in one of the most beautiful and pristine areas of Eastern Crete. Shortly after his birth his family relocated to Athens where he first became involved with photography. At the age of 22 he studied at the AKTO Art & Design Institute of Athens, Greece. He subsequently worked as a professional photographer in the fields of advertising, marketing and tourist materials. With innovation and by changing and creating unique postcards, diaries and posters with Crete and the islands of the Aegean as his focus he forever changed the static images of the common tourist materials.

His work has been shown in Greece and many European Countries. He is one of the most recognized and prized Greek artists. He has won countless awards, medals of honor and international competitions. International collectors have purchased his art photography around the world. His work and interviews have been included and published in countless art and photo magazines in the United States, Japan, China and Europe.

Customer Reviews

A Book... And Its Cover
I ordered this book with several others, but this was the one I was REALLY looking forward to. When my package arrived, I opened it up to find this was not all I had hoped it would be.

The Bad:

The cover is actually the best part of the book, with many of the pictures inside being very grainy, and not very well-composed for a Black-and-White. In my opinion, a study of the female nude in outdoor (natural) settings in itself should be done in color IF your focus is going to be the SETTING more so than the NUDE. Take pages 16,20,24,33,35,37,48,52,53,64,67,68,95,96, and 99 (I'll try to post some of these so you can see them). Many of these don't even include a female in the shot (and of the ones that do, there are only 2 pictures where you can see the woman's face, which makes you focus on the landscape in most of them) - and the landscape really loses quite a bit of its flavor without color. For a travel marketing photographer, Manolis Tsantakis should have known this. You can see in some of these pictures that the landscape is beautiful, but it does not entice you all that much in b&w. Not to say it can't work - the shot on page 100 works perfectly in b&w, and actually sends a chill up my spine at how eerie a still lake can be.

The Good:

There are some great pictures that do work very well - most notably the ones on pages 9,11-13,19,29,39,43,49,56-59,60,69,71,72,76-79,81-85,88,89,93,100,101,104,105. Getting a book with 30 good pictures out of 58 ain't all bad.

A unique art book
This book features some of the best black and white nudes I have ever seen. It is rare to find a photographer who is able to incorporate the beauty of a woman with the beauty of nature. Each picture of this book is a poem and a pleasure for the eyes and it makes me feel the perfect harmony between a woman's body and the Mother Nature. The nudity of the models gives the touch of eroticism that makes these photos simply ... beautiful.
A must have for any exigent collector!
Looking forward to the next album of Manolis Tsantakis!

Nature & Women Sensual and Honest
I love this book, because although the women have beautiful bodies and faces, they seem to flow into nature itself. They are a part of the environment, not a sexy nude figure imposed upon a beach, they are the shape within the beach for example. I enjoy the poetry that goes along with every image. They are another thought and window into the picture. I have seen Mr. Tsankatis work on line in both color and black and white. His work is expressive and passionate and deeply adoring of women._Carmen