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Love and Desire

by by William A. Ewing

The most extraordinary visual survey of human passion ever put between covers, Love and Desire is the long-awaited sequel to William A. Ewing's acclaimed photography collection The Body. Here, the highly regarded art critic and curator surveys 150 years of photographic history, exploring how the camera has been used to express the elusive ideas, thoughts, and sentiments related to the most turbulent of human emotions. These photographs capture the group adulation of a public icon and the showgirl's seduction of her audience, a man proudly posing with his two wives as well as the innocent sensuality of a child clutching his mother's breast. Here are images by many of the great names in photography, including Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Helmut Newton, Sally Mann, Brassai, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Famous and obscure, beautiful and provocative, intelligent and challenging, their images explore the diversity and complexity of human yearning. A compendium that will resonate with the curious, the impassioned, and the connoisseur, Love and Desire offers an extraordinary odyssey through the secrets of the heart.