portraits

First of all, the cover of the book captured my attention. The woman dressed in a white, goassmer, elastic cloth revealing a baby in her womb is just brilliant and breath taking. I believe that the cover says it all. It signifies the beauty of birth and the precious relationship between a woman and her child. I couldn't resist picking up the book only after a mere glance of the cover.

I really appreciate Anne Geddes use of simplicity in this book. Her positioning of the models demonstrates her understanding of aesthetic shape and form. She positions the babies so delicately in order to create a sense of how magnificent and precious they really are at that stage. I especially love the closeness and various angles of the pictures and the intimate relationship she creates between the subject and the viewer. It's her simplicity of the pictures that makes them so breath taking and pure. This book is a must for those that appreciate life and the birth of it.

PURE is filled w/beautiful photography of newborns. For anyone tired of babies in flowerpots, be sure to check out this book before you judge it. I was suprised by this book and really love what Anne Geddes has done in this one.

Well my fiance got this book for me, becuase I had wanted it for such a long time. ANd I was so amazed even from the very front cover. I still look through it every once in a while, and I find that these photographs are absolutely beautifully timeless. The Pregnant body is beautiful and the whole point of this wonderfully crafted book is to let women know that even when they are pregnant they are beautiful. There is such beauty with mother and daughter/son.

Maybe I'm just a fanatic....This book is a must have for anyone who loves this type of art. And it's not porn, at least I dont think so. It's tasteful in my opinion. Granted yes..some are..Interesting...but still it's still beautiful.

A must have for Anne Geddes fan,come on she spent 5 years on it, and it payed off.