Pictures of Fred Hardcover – January 1, 2000

If you like the photo on the cover, you're going to LOVE what's inside. Fred is just beautiful, and Roffman captures him in various moods, settings, and stages of undress. Great for a coffee table in an adult household.

Beautifully shot photobook. Fred is stunning.

How does Roffman manage to capture so much of his subject's soul in his photographs? That he does so capture it is eveident in this wonderfully rich collection of B&W images.There are a combination of formally posed and more naturally posed photos, and all seem to connect the reader to the model's core. I feel that B&W is the best medium to capture this aspect of erotic photography as you are not distracted by colour.Fred, a French gymnast and model, is beautiful. He seems at times both carefree and self-aware. Roffman captures the spark of youth.You really MUST buy this book; you'lle be pleased that you did.

Howard Roffman is a fine photographer as proved to many, including me, in two of his previous collections, TALES and THREE.PICTURES OF FRED has, first-rate, candid and more formal portraits of this very young, handsome, French model and gymnast. However, the accompanying text is so precious that it becomes annoying, esp. with several "typos" in only two pages of text. And since this descriptive essay is very brief, appearing at the beginning of the volume with portions reproduced in various other sections of the book, I wondered why it was even included. Why not have a writer as good as Roffman is a photographer write the text and make it much less manipulative? Some of the phrases are actually as melodramatic as the kind found in paperback, romance novels (i.e. "One night I found Fred alone. He seemed sad, withdrawn...The conversation shook me. Fred had kept his wisdom hidden...By the time the sun set, we were both drained. We collapsed on his couch, and he fell asleep in my lap, naked, vulnerable.")If a picture is worth a thousand words, I'd like some more pictures and alot fewer words, please.