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Like its acclaimed predecessor, the Second Edition of this outstanding photographic reference offers illustrators, fine artists, and animators immediate access to the human form in deep perspective, that is, foreshortened. With all-new photographs, the Atlas of Foreshortening features:
* Over 530 high-quality photographs
* Both male and female nudes
* Poses with slight, moderate, and marked foreshortening
* Detail shots and full-body photographs
* Many poses shot from multiple angles | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | John Cody | | Paperback: | 336 pages | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Publication Date: | 2002-02 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0471396966 | | Product Length: | 10.94 inches | | Product Width: | 8.54 inches | | Product Height: | 0.69 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.09 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.8 inches | | Package Width: | 8.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 17 reviews |
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42 of 45 found the following review helpful:
 Bad for Illustrators looking for reference!! Jul 25, 2001
By Siju Thomas
This book like It's title clearly indicates is not an illustration reference book.It's extremely useful to students and practitioners of the fine art of figure drawing ,it provides poses which are very diffrent from what we are used to seeing in normal life thus forcing us to see how many familiar shapes change when viewed at an unfamiliar angle,for a figure artist struggling with foreshortening a book like this one and Burne Hogarths Dynamic Figure Drawing used in tandem could work wonders.This is the only book of its kind and is in one word "BRILLIANT" .
26 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Very useful Jun 11, 2004
By wiredweird
"wiredweird"
There are lots of visual reference books out there. It would be easy to populate a bookshelf with them. After a while, though, they start to look the same.
Not this one. Heavily foreshortened poses are the hardest (for me at least), so this book devotes itself to genuinely distinctive views. It may sound like distortion to describe an arm or leg as being a third length of the other. In fact, it is distortion if they are the same length, when viewed from some angles.
This book gives an uncommon perspective - it has earned its place on my shelves.
[review of first edition]
//wiredweird
67 of 77 found the following review helpful:
 interesting poses, bad position and poor quality photographs Sep 29, 2000
The poses in this book are indeed very dynamic and interesting but the one MAJOR draw-back is that they are all with the models laying down on the ground. Definitely not a very practical figure reference book for an illustrator like myself. I mean lets be honest, how many times are you going to be drawing a figure contorted on the ground verses standing and engaged in some sort of action. It may, however, be possible too adapt some of the poses for a standing position and yet gravity affects the body completely differently when it is horizontal instead of vertical. The photographs themselves are very poor in terms of quality in that they are: muddy, bad resolution, slighty out of focus, badly lit etc. etc. etc. Basically this was a very disappointing purchase. The "Fairburn System" series is far better than this book for photographic figure reference material; however, very hard to find.
22 of 23 found the following review helpful:
Wonderful Reference Book Sep 30, 2002
By Eric R. Rose'
I have been using Mark Edward Smith's two excellent photographic references as a source for practicing figure drawing over the last year or so. I was a bit hesitant to buy this book - afraid that it might just be duplicating what I already have - but once it arrived in the mail I was really glad that I did. The quality of the photography is *fantastic* and it's printed on a glossy stock which preserves the halftones and detail which unfortunately sometimes get 'washed out' in Smith's books. The range of poses is great too - from some very classical poses to some really "out-there" angles and poses which border on contortionism. Some of the most beautiful poses in this book are ones which a live model couldn't hold for more than 2-5 minutes, so having it captured on paper is a real bonus. All in all, I wuold say that the combination of poses and camera angles provides a fantastic reference work for studying the muscles of the body in various states of tension and compression.
I think I'm going to be spending lot of time drawing from this book.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Exellent! Sep 22, 2005
By Ernst Robert Skrede
This is the book I've been searching for for years! Most art photo reference books will either give you very standard standing, lying, walking poses or very artistic poses(ie unclear) . This book has clear photos of the body in unusual positions. There's a wide variety of poses and sections. Both male and female models.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It's a must for those who can't afford to hire a model everyday.
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