JEAN VAN CLEEMPUT
Goliath, Frankfurt ***
Published alongside Dave Naz’s Legs, Beluga is one of those ‘concept’ photo books that isn’t exactly fetishism as we know it, but may well still hold some appeal for pervs.
Van Cleemput, ‘one of Belgium’s most acclaimed photographers’, used an old Chinese restaurant in Antwerp to stage a series of photographs of lingerie-clad models with seafood. The images are both stylish and stylised, and shot in a wonderful golden light that reminds me of Gérard Musy’s Paris catalogue shoot for Skin Two many years ago.
The juxtaposition of models with everything from a small shark to a large octopus is pretty much a one-joke story, but carried off with considerable panache. And at the back are a couple of dozen seafood recipes, so basically it’s like a soft-porn version of my Belgo cookbook. Which is fine by me. TM (Reviewed Dec 2004)
www.goliathbooks.com
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