Who wants some really fantastically high quality nudity in a beautiful book on your coffee table? Photographer Allan Amato is bringing you just that with his new project SKIN, a 248-page, 11×14 hardcover photography book. He’s got hot models, porn stars, and plenty of other people you might not have expected to pose nude. But there they are, in the altogether — as Amato says, “Representation equals liberation.” These are some of the preview pictures he has been posting to his Twitter @allanamato account. Many familiar faces and figures here, but some who are new to us as well.
And while it’s certainly nice to look at these pictures here on this website, there’s no substitute for holding a book in your hand. 248 pages! That is one weighty tome of multi-cultural human nudity. You can get this book yourself, plus other stuff like prints and art, if you hop over to Kickstarter and pledge some dough. (It is actually also available in digital form for a very modest pledge, so go with that option if you’re not hung up on dead trees.)
“What does representation mean?” Amato asks on the Kickstarter page. “Why is it important? What does it accomplish? SKIN poses a question that I cannot begin to answer alone. It is a question that can only be answered by uplifting every voice, or in the case of this book, every shape, color, gender, disability and age, wrought into a unified mosaic through the medium of black and white photography. This is by far the longest and most ambitious photographic journey I’ve ever taken, and I hope in the long run, SKIN will be more than a book of fine images, but an exercise in seeing and being the beauty in all of us. Each of us is a language. I think of SKIN as a Rosetta Stone. A decryption key allowing us to translate each other. And perhaps ultimately ourselves.
Enjoy these sample images — and yes, we did pull the hot traditional cis babes. Because… that’s what we do here [shrug].
Many thanks to Allan himself for giving us permission. If you want to see more of his work the Twitter is a good place, as well as his Patreon, his shop (www.allanamato.work) and his professional portfolio site (allanamato.com).
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