Subjects:  1. Cultural property   2. Ethics   3. Indigenous peoples   4. Intellectual property   5. International   6. Law   7. Law and legislation   8. Legal status, laws, etc   9. Property   10. Protection   

Subjects:  1. Anastasiia Nikolaevna   2. Anderson, Anna   

Subjects:  1. Burghers of Calais   2. Rodin, Auguste   

Subjects:  1. Material Science   2. Science/Mathematics   3. Technology   4. Technology & Industrial Arts   5. Mechanical Engineering & Materials   

Subjects:  1. Environmental Science   2. Environmental Studies   

Subjects:  1. Automotive - General   2. Automotive Transportation   3. Congresses   4. Diet / Health / Fitness   5. Economics - General   6. Engineering - Civil   7. Migration, Internal   8. Safety   9. Science/Mathematics   10. Traffic accidents   11. Traffic safety   12. Transportation   13. Transportation (Specific Aspects)   14. Transportation, Automotive   

Customer Reviews (4)

Don't judge a book by its cover
Don't judge a book by its cover. To begin with, for the fact that the portrait on the cover was neither shot by Wilhelm von Gloeden, but by his cousin, Wilhelm von Pluschow, nor has anything to do with TAORMINA, but either with Rome or Naples, where Pluschow lived, as anyone aquainted with Pluschow's work will immediatly recognise.

Ditto for many, if not most, of the pix in this book, which are not by Gloeden and were not shot in Taormina.

This explain the coarse side of some of these pictures that other reviewers noticed: this would be unusual for Gloeden indeed, however these pix are not his, but mostly by Vincenzo Galdi (Pluschow's aide), who ended his career in 1907 after being condemned for *obscene* photographs. Q.E.D.

In sum, the editors made a total mess, concerning attributions. They decided that if it looks Italian, and it is at least one century old, then it is Gloeden.
Which is nonsense.

This said, the book is a nice object, printed in colours (of course the pix themselves are black and white), oversize, displaying for the first time scores of pictures never seen before. Hence my 4 stars, the mess notwithstanding.

However the book does *not* deal with Gloeden and Taormina (alone), but rather with different kinds of pictures (from art to softporn) of the male nude from Italy between 1880 and 1920.

If you look for the real thing, I mean Gloeden himself, then go for other editions (there are plenty of them, most of them much cheaper).
But if you are looking for the catalogue of a private collection put together with Italian male nudes between 1880 and 1930, then this book is very very nice, though a bit costly.

Great, sexy kitsch
Forget about cloaking these shots with the guise of "art".
Von Gloeden kept the laurel wreathes, but somehow forgot the fig leaves. These photos are fun for what they are---the first (acknowleged by its creator) gay softcore porn. Many of them are positively hilarious, but, seemingly by accident, some are actually quite beautiful.

A lover of youth
The baron was a lover of youth and the beauty that that portarys and it shows in his images. He captures the natural sensuality of his models in a truthfull and honest moment. He is as insynch now with my own desires as he was with his patrons. One of which was a priest who died recently who had a collection of more then 300 of his plates, a find that will entrall us all if or when they are released. If you love boys you will love this. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Individual Photographer   2. Individual Photographers And Their Work   3. Photo Essays   4. Photoessays & Documentaries   5. Photography   6. Subjects & Themes - Erotica   

Subjects:  1. Fallada, Hans   2. Ulrich, Roland   

Subjects:  1. Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20)   2. Hitler, Adolf   3. Hösslin, Roland von   

Subjects:  1. Language   2. Language Arts & Disciplines   3. Semantics   

Subjects:  1. Analysis   2. Diffraction   3. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical   4. Science/Mathematics   5. Technology   6. Technology Of Inorganic Products   7. X-rays   8. Zeolites