Naked
Happy Girls by Andrew Einhorn.
Published by Goliath. ISBN-10:
3936709033
Andrew
Einhorn was born in the US State of Pennsylvania in 1964. He became infatuated
with photography after working on the newspaper and
yearbook of Temple University where he studied journalism. After graduating
he spent the next five years as a photojournalist with the Philadelphia
Inquirer. In 1994 he made the move to New York where he still lives and
works as a photographer, editor and comedian. It was whilst living in
Manhattan that he first became interested in the nude as a subject and
began by persuading friends and later strangers to pose. Many of these
images were first used in a public-access television programme he produced
called "Dog the Cat" and they have now been collated
for publication in Naked Happy Girls.
The
book opens with a one page introduction by Emma Jane Taylor and then we
are straight into the photographs. These are split into small sections
devoted to each model and, in way of introduction, Einhorn writes a short
paragraph on each. The photographer prefers to use the models own home
as the location for each shoot and this adds to the image by allowing
more of the models personality to shine through.
The photographs
betray Einhorn's photojournalistic background, as well as his sense of
humour, and are shot without enhancement - they
remind one a little of the nudes created by Lee Friedlander. The collection
works for a couple of viewing's but some may find that the style tends to overstay its welcome. This may be in some part due to the number
of images within the book - at 368 pages Naked Happy Girls,
like many of the books Goliath publish in this particular format, could
have benefited from a little editing.
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