Naomi Harris, America Swings, Art Edition Viking - Reviews
"La joven fotógrafa Naomi Harris ha viajado a lo largo y ancho del país colándose en la vida sexual privada de sus vecinos. Las historias reales más curiosas y eróticas de la América profunda se muestran en este libro de edición limitada de la editorial TASCHEN por 350€."Isport, MadridSpain |
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"Naomi Harris packed her camera and criss-crossed the USA from New Jersey to California via Texas, to create this remarkable record of the life of swingers, including multi-orgasmic school teachers, polyamorous nurses, bisexual senior citizens and a group of black males who service white wives."Desire, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"Paradoxical as it seems, during a time when right-wingers and leftists are at each other's throats, there are still those who leave their politics aside when it comes to bumping uglies. America Swings is documentary photographer Naomi Harris' first book -- a borderline-X-rated expose, featuring middle-aged middle-Americans at good old fashioned swinger sex parties -- from hoedowns, barbeques, and private clubs to the inside of their suburban homes. Exclusivity amongst swingers' clubs varies, but the parties Harris shot are far from haughty.... As Harris' book has proven, it could very well be your boss, or arguably worse, your next door neighbor. Experiencing the scene through Harris' book at least doesn't mandate a shower afterward, long as you don't look too closely."Blackbook, New YorkUnited States |
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"America Swings is documentary photographer Naomi Harris' first book -- a borderline-X-rated expose, featuring middle-aged middle-Americans at good old fashioned swinger sex parties.. The book is a sharp, three-dimensional, at times grotesque collection that leaves the reader (or at least this reader) feeling guiltily voyeuristic. Harris' subjects display the fullest degree of exhibitionism...In the early 1990s pre-Giuliani, the swinger club scene thrived in New York City, but couples-only sex clubs still exist, such as Le Trapeze and Carousel. So who attends these clubs? As Harris' book has proven, it could very well be your boss, or arguably worse, your next door neighbor. Experiencing the scene through Harris' book at least doesn't mandate a shower afterward, long as you don't look too closely."Blackbook, New YorkUnited States |
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"From polyamorous nurses to bisexual senior citizens, Naomi Harris takes extraordinary portraits of seemingly ordinary Americans in her new book, America Swings."Playgirl, New YorkUnited States |
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"The folk of America certainly do swing and by the pictures we've seen, they do it with gusto. We LOVE this book; a magical mixed bag of phalli, foofs and cheeky bottoms...This is a hilarious visual record of sex in suburban America."10 Magazine, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"Ce sont des gens ordinaires que l'on croise aux Etats-Unis, dans les films des frères Coen façon Jeff Lebowski: ils adorent le foot américain, la bière, vivent loin des villes comme New York et L.A., aiment leur pays au point d'avoir pu voter Bush lors des dernières élections. En France, on les appellerait, c'est selon, des ringards, des ploucs, des bouseux, des culterreux...Outre-Atlantique, des rednecks. La photographe canadienne Naomi Harris est allée à leur rencontre, sans préjugé aucun. De son expérience, elle publie chez TASCHEN, dans deux éditions limitées, America Swings, préfacé par l'artiste new-yorkais Richard Prince. Et le moins que l'on puisse dire c'est que celles et ceux qu'elle a photographiés n'ont pas l'esprit de clocher en matière sexuelle. Ils pratiquent l'échangisme, et ça se voit qu'ils aiment cela."L'Officiel Hommes, ParisFrance |
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"Ca balance pas mal...Aux Etats-Unis, on swinge! Comprenez: on s'échange...Les swingers américains ne sont pas des danseurs mais des échangistes qui, sous l'objectif de la photographe Naomi Harris, dynamitent les clichés de l'Amérique puritaine. Cet ouvrage nous propose un voyage hallucinant dans une Amérique méconnue, libre et hédoniste, qui se révèle à travers des portraits de vraies gens, au physique banal mais à la sexualité débridée: infirmières poly-amoureuses, retraités bisexuels, Afro-Américains au service d'épouses blanches...Seul bémol: l'ouvrage coûte une fortune. Dommage!"Union, ParisFrance |
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"It would be tempting to describe Naomi Harris's new book, America Swings, as a photographic monument to the pursuit of 'unbridled sex', until you open it up and find out that bridles do, in fact, appear in a number of Harris's pictures. It is also tempting to describe this project, for which Harris traversed the US shooting swingers parties sometimes doing so in the nude in order to put her subjects at ease, as uncompromising, except, remember, we are discussing sex in America, and there is no topic more compromised than this."Art Review, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"Discovered by Richard Prince when her work was published in The New Erotic Photography, Naomi Harris spent 48 months criss-crossing the USA, documenting hundreds of everyday citizens united by one particularly wayward practice - swinging. From bisexual OAP's to a group of African-American men who "service" white wives, America Swings is uninhibited, strangely joyful and only a little bit uncomfortable to look at."Dazed & Confused, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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Naomi Harris, America Swings, Art Edition Viking
Hanson, Dian (Editor)
Prince, Richard / Harris, Naomi Hardcover, slipcase + print, 37 x 29 cm (14.6 x 11.4 in.), 256 pages $ 1000.00 |
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