BOB COULTER
Goliath, Frankfurt ****
This is one of two simultaneous offerings from Goliath (the other being Modern Vixens — reviewed below) which are both A5 size volumes packing about 350 images apiece into their chunky hardback formats. That’s a lot of pix for your bucks, a philosophy which I suspect is the publisher’s response to a market now accustomed to being offered vast galleries of digital photography on the internet.
In neither of these books, however, is quantity being offered as a substitute for quality. And both, in their own ways, will appeal to pervy sensibilities.
Coulter’s landscape-format Bad Girls Hotel is often deliciously dark, and his girls certainly look like they know what being bad is all about, whether or not it involves actual kinkery. He gets perv points for his use of the OTT room decor of Manhattan’s Carlton Arms Hotel as a surreal backdrop for the entire book, while his painterly use of colour and his eye for extreme perspective suggest great potential for (good) bad things to happen.
And let’s face it: if they’re not going to happen with these girls in these rooms, they’re not going to happen at all. TM (Reviewed Mar 06)
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