Thomas Karsten - Moments of Intensity - 2002

The sexy brunette with the frizzy hair lying on her side and twisted into a strangely comfortable looking bun. The sad short-haired blonde who sits slumped like an Indian woman and whose pointed breasts look like little inverted Deer. The two lesbians with Joan Jett-style piercings who don't look extraordinary or ecstatic, but simply content in their cuddling position. Maybe these are the images that are not just about women, but about women too. After all, for a naked girl - or a few girls - in front of the intimate and searching gaze of a man with a camera, relaxation is the most intense (and rarest and most tender) moment of all.

The natural eroticism of real people who allow themselves to be taken by the moment form the background for the images of this book. The photographs, startling in their honesty, illustrate an exceptional sensual proximity between the models and the artist, and also between the models themselves.