Tony Ward - Orgasm + Orgasm XL - 2000-2002

2 Books Orgasm + Orgasm XL

Orgasm 2000 96 pages 21x29cm

After the much acclaimed Obsessions, Tony Ward offers here a collection of photos that reinforce his position as one of the main photographers of sex. The artist's very open and direct approach to sexual matter has given his images a beauty and a liberating effect that remain in your memory long after you have seen them.

Orgasm XL 2002 120 pages 25x31cm with 2 bumps not affecting inside book


Orgasm XL is the second collection of explicit pictures by Tony Ward. While Tony Ward has shown his tamer work in galleries and museums, his more explicit shots have not had such a wide exposure for obvious reasons. These shots, even more than the soft core images that defined the most recent years of his career, strip sexual photography of its hypocritical sense of "Hardcore cannot be art" and bring to the front the sexual in all its explicitness. It is rather in the search for texture, in the nuances of models' expressions, in the delicate directing of extreme fantasies that these images which should never be seen are composed to be offered to our gaze with a beauty and innocence that we have been taught to deny. Tony Ward does not shrink from explicitness and cannot separate it from its practice of photography. It is with this honesty that he offers this new collection of sexual images.


Ward passe en revue la diversité de l'expression contemporaine de la sexualité ; il mène le jeu sans commander (ni censurer) ses modèles. Brutes et sophistiquées, cruses et complexes, ces saynètes présentent les pulsions lascives, fétichistes, exhibitionnistes d'acteurs que dirige un styliste distingué." "Ward surveys the diversity of contemporary sexual expression directorially, orchestrating the action without dictating (or censoring) the behavior. Raw yet sophisticated, crude yet intricate, these mini dramas bring the lustful, fetishistic, and exhibitionistic impulses of these actors under the guidance of a distinctive stylist."


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