This portfolio album depicts, confident and inspiring women in idyllic poolside scenery. These are celebrations of beauty in luxurious backdrops with blue sky and water and lush greenery.

The Poolside Portfolio consists of twenty-six fine art nude photographs, one per page. The pages are are generously proportioned at 13×11 inches/ 33×28 centimeters. The first section of the album contains horizontal images. The second section are vertical images; however every image is rotated to maximize it’s size, meaning the viewer rotates the album ninety degrees to view the second section.

The Poolside Portfolio of artistic figure photography by Aaron Knight is limited to twenty-five copies, with each one being autographed and numbered by the artist. The black linen hardcover is wrapped in a beautifully-printed, laminated dust jacket which includes front and back interior flaps. A brief explanation of the portfolio, as well as an explanation about the artist are written on the inside flaps. A durable library binding olds the 190 gsm ProLine Pearl photo paper firmly in place between the heavyweight black end sheets.

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This is the project’s flagship collection. The images in the deluxe oversized portfolio album are not found in other books.

The following are a three-volume set. The volumes are not available separately.

Hardcover photo book

fotoEros demi-folio

• Premium hardcover photo album
• 20 bondage-inspired art images
• Super heavy 190 gsm Mohawk ProLine Pearl photo paper
• 8×10 inches/20×25 cm
• Autographed by the artist
• No detail is spared: durable library binding, heavyweight end sheets, linen hardcover, and full-wrap glossy photo dust-jacket with end flaps.

Deluxe oversize portfolio album

• Premium hardcover photo album
• 26 photographs
• 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
• Limited to 20 copies
• Signed/numbered
• Black linen hardcover with laminated dust jacket
• Durable library binding
• Super heavy paper: 190 gsm Mohawk proPhoto Pearl
• Heavyweight end sheets

This collection is stirring and occasionally too provocative for the mainstream. The sequence of images begins with a spirited disposition becoming progressively more intense throughout the series.

Not just a collection of beautiful body parts, the subjects are confident and unashamed. Every image has been photographed and painstakingly prepared and more than two dozen subjects are included.

The photo book has an artist’s introductory essay explaining how’s and why’s of portraying sensuality through photography. The collection begins with moderate content and becomes progressively more provocative, with the boldest images at the end of the book.

Artist Aaron Knight is fascinated by the countless ways expressions of the body can be unapologetically hedonic, yet represent formal beauty. The contours and textures of muscles, limbs, and features work in concert to create compositions. Each image of this project pays tribute to the spirit of passion through arrangement of shadows, sweeping lines, and texture.

Photographers can choose from various apparatus to bring illusions to life: modified lighting, lenses that alter perspective, and a plethora of software. Knight doesn’t approach his craft as an operator of equipment. He is trained in painting, drawing, and photography. His ideas are independent from the medium. The tools of photography are the best means to the end of realizing what he seeks to produce.

Knight didn’t invent this scintillating beauty, nor does he merely document what is in front of the camera; he pays homage through an extensive production process. He draws upon traditions of pinup art, reimagining the classic nude study through the eyes of an oil painter and with a twist of theatrical performance. This compilation owes as much to the viewer’s imagination as it does to alluring subjects and the effort of crafting of the photographs. The central approach of this presentation is to conceal or eliminate elements that are irrelevant and distract from the artist’s message. Shadow, point of view, and framing all complement the poses and expressions of the subjects.

The subjects are confident and unashamed, and their body language indicates trust in the viewer. Despite a direct seductive message, these images are deliberate both in their design and detail. The most successful photographs will be the ones that convey new information each time they are viewed, rather than relying on initial impact.

For the majority of these pages, Aaron Knight employs tonal modification that resembles the traditional black and white photography he was trained in. Despite their monochromatic appearance, this effect contains hints of color. Bluish shadows contrast with warm mid-tones and amber highlights. The subtle toning is deliberately applied to specific areas of each image to achieve the desired effect. The lack of color is an attempt to direct attention to the graphic aspects of composition: convergence of line, repetition of shape, and contrasts of texture.

This collection is organized into visual themes, including nature, the studio, and some full color images. Although each sequence is titled, they are presented without written interruption. These sub-themes are like portions of a river; where one ends and the next begins is approximate.

In the studio, one of the broad themes included, the centrality of the figure is emphasized by the untextured surroundings. The ambience is primarily established through a sense of space: the relationship of the torso and limbs to the rectangular frame of the photograph. A closely-cropped depiction feels familiar while a more distant subject insinuates a level of voyeurism.

When the nude is photographed in a landscape setting, another broad theme incorporated, there is an allusion to our basic animal inclinations. The context of the wilderness contrasts with the body, but also implies the human form has its origins in nature. This is where this compilation begins.

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This art nude photography portfolio is a vibrant celebration of the female form. These images invite the viewer to explore a dreamlike world on this visual journey to an unknown destination. The artwork is exploratory; a pastiche of borrowed cultural perceptions and glimpses into an alternate reality that is tantalizingly close to that of our own. This vision at times pays homage to traditional themes and at other times challenges them. This chosen perspective of beauty is neither overwrought with eroticism nor obligated to modesty.

At its core, the creative process of these images is independent of medium. When creating a photograph, Aaron Knight take the same considerations he would as with a painting: choosing each color, and where to place each element. In some cases, he combines several images to achieve a final result. Also as if painting, Aaron Knight might combine an image of a hand or leg from other photographs in a session to get the shape or position that he wants. Some compositions are barely touched while in others, his effort is quite obvious.

It’s often said, photographs are “frozen moments.” In the case of Aaron Knight, they are moments of fiction. These are artistic hallucinations. They exist the way a compelling story exists in literature or in a stage play: the actor is real but the character is two-dimensional illusion.

It is not his intention to impress solely with technique, but rather to cultivate thoughts and emotions. Formally trained, Aaron Knight’s unrelenting passion and inability to compromise are apparent in this art nude photography portfolio.

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The common visual thread of figures intertwined, overlapped, or otherwise visually connected, sparked this portfolio. These compositions present tangled encounters of limbs, torsos, and flowing hair. Paired in symmetry, reflection or tension.

The photographs are spontaneous, unexpected celebrations of beauty with a dash of sensuality. The presentation in unapologetic in displaying the unencumbered body.

You are invited to enjoy this dreamlike world and to ponder it’s inhabitants that live somewhere between a mythological eroticism and surreal pinup. Each composition has been painstakingly prepared in accordance with a particular aesthetic, intended not just to display beauty, but to explore it through a mixture of cultural and artistic influences.

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Aaron Knight is fascinated by the power of liquid to bend light and take a figure photograph into a fictional world. The ungovernable nature of liquid provides a balance between order and chaos. Although the photographer can predict the general nature of each image, the exact details are left to the randomness of the liquid. A constantly moving mirror and lens, liquids provide intricate visual surprises. Ripples, reflections, splashes, and drops all contribute to a mix of highlights and shadows comprising intricate textures.

The patterns of ripples and waves can seem independent of scale with fascinating effects whether depicted close up or far away. The dreamlike nature of liquid adds a touch of the surreal.

In these images, liquids create textures, mood, colors, and unpredictable shapes through cascades, splashes, and ripples. There is something visceral and primal about many of these.

Below the surface is a world that is somewhat alien. Gone are the familiar behavior of light and gravity. The effects of atmosphere on perspective and light are peculiar. Bodies and hair are buoyant and sometimes appear weightless. The metaphor of flying through water is emphasized by outstretched limbs and sweeping motion.

There are myriad intriguing ways water moves when it falls, hits the body, then is propelled upwards and outwards. These behaviors of liquid are what first interested Aaron Knight in photographing liquids that appear frozen as they contact the body. Where the source of the water is external to the frame, it streams from above, or appear spontaneously as from nowhere, bursting or drizzling in subtle textures of reflection and shadow.

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This deluxe oversized nude pinup portfolio album is printed to the highest standards with top quality materials. A collection of top images printed on super high quality paper. Contains a mix of subtle and provocative images in the nude pinup style. Shipped in a reusable clear memorabilia wrap.

An homage to classic pinup nude, the portfolio album counterpart to the Ample Beauty photobook.

In this collection of images, Art photographer Aaron Knight pays homage to classic pinup with his tribute to the genre. His style includes choosing colors with the same discretion as he would an oil painting. In art school Knight learned to draw, paint, and make photographs. Through this process he learned not only to appreciate the choice of subject, but to accentuate details and to mix the colors to evoke emotions. The artist has spent many hours adjusting composition and color to bring his style to the subject. Some color shifts and deliberate angles of view may be obvious but others may be more subtle. Although proficiency is important to him, technique is only a means to an end; not for its own sake. Knight’s mind is on designing the scene in front of the camera and exhibit it in a way that engages the viewer. These images are as much imagination as reality.

The artwork celebrates sensuality, referencing traditional ideas of beauty in a blend of nostalgia and commentary. The approach to nudity is unapologetic; a candid and individual perspective of sensuality, neither outright erotic, nor with a requirement for modesty. The subjects play characters with intoxicating personalities; dramatizing energy, desirability, playfulness, or defiance.

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Although this is an unapologetic celebration of the sensuality of the female form, it is more than a collection of appealing body parts. Each image is crafted with an aesthetic that embodies the spirit of passion by embracing line, shape, and pattern. This collection was photographed with an emphasis on composition and each image painstakingly selected from amongst thousands of options. The subjects were chosen for their portrayal of confidence and unabashed self expression.

In the canon of human beauty, there is an array of features and body types. This collection is curated from a narrow band of that spectrum, based on the artist’s perspective. Knight neither create nor document elegance, but pays homage to it. Knight’s images are a glimpse at an alternate reality, not a captured moment from life. Although the camera is thought of as not lying, it is always his intention to create a fiction that exists in his mind, not that which exists in front of the lens. The women he collaborates with are equally complicit in this masquerade, as an actor on a stage might take an audience willingly to suspend disbelief—to see her as the character whom she portrays. He prefers an image that becomes more interesting as it is studied to one that relies on a sudden visual impact. Striving for this elusive goal is a process of constant evolution.

Knight reserves his creative energy for the portrayal of the subject. His goals are independent of his medium—the same as if he was working with oil paints. He strives to create artwork, not photographs. He feels no particular allegiance to traditional concepts of what a photograph should be.

The compositions in this erotic art portfolio explore both the psyche and the physical, speaking to the longstanding relationship between creativity and a positive energy of sensuality.

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The opening page of the portfolio, depicts a single figure strolling the waterline at sunrise. The horizon bisects the scene, separating the sky from sand and sea in this landscape depiction of the female form. The next image continues this theme with another centered horizon, intense blue water and an equally striking blue sky, distinguishable only by the dark line of the distant edge of visibility over the Atlantic ocean. A lone figure, her back to the viewer, surveys the impressive panorama.

Additional images feature multiple models, contrasting in skin tone and posture. Some are in a loose, friendly embrace, while others wander into the water of a shallow bay. Unclad figures kneel in the sand, the electrifying emotion of the breathtaking landscape apparent in their expression and body language. Revelers rejoice in the surf, white foam splashing against their torsos. Sand adds texture to skin and distant vegetation adds a splash of green to the predominantly blue and salmon color palette.

A diver and an underwater swimmer offer more abstract depictions of the feminine form, framed by the splashes, bubble, and a kaleidoscope of aquatic colors. A rising shipwreck and jagged volcanic formations assert a darker mood in black and white images.

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Each portfolio album is signed in white ink on the front inside flap. Each album is also signed on the front endpaper. The front flap will also be hand numbered in the order purchased. Maximum of 20 will be sold.

This hardcover fine art nude portfolio album is the highest quality bound photography. Laid open on the coffee table, the hardcover album is a mammoth 26-inch (66cm) presentation.

The pages are a high-end, heavyweight (190 gsm) photography paper. The ProPhoto Pearl paper made by Mohawk has a semi-glass luster finish and has the heavy feel of a portfolio of photographic prints. The slightly glossier finish renders bright colors, smooth skin tones, and deep blacks. Mohawk’s proPhoto papers have the look and feel of traditional photo papers and are engineered to produce brilliant imagery paired with superior inks.

This high-end photographic album is a black linen hardcover. It is wrapped with a full color, glossy dust jacket and has colored endpapers. Twenty-six pages of striking images printed in extraordinary quality, rich deep colors, dark blacks, and delicate tones.

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