Book Reviews

Staff · Issue 40, Jan/Feb 2008 · pp. 59

Products mentioned: H20 by Howard Schatz, American Waters by Alex Kirkbride

Book Reviews H20 By Howard Schatz ‘H20’ is an extraordinary visual feast of images taken by this New York photographer and compiled into a beautifully printed 180 page 14” x 10.5” coffee table book. The images are in the main taken underwater in a pool with precisely controlled lighting and physically articulate models to produce images of great beauty, richness and complicated simplicity. In a strange sort of a way it is often what is left out that can contribute so much to an image and I began to realise that most of my favourite ones in this book were those where there seemed to be no water! The background was jet black and the model weightlessly suspended, adorned by diffused, pastel chiffon. A combination of great elegance. The introduction by Owen Edwards is precisely informative and provides an experienced insight into the photographer and his wife and business partner Beverly J. …