Fat Girl

by Carlos Batts (Photographer), Miss Rosen (Foreword by), April Flores (Introduction)

Overview

His most personal work to date, award-winning photographer Carlos Batts explores the often stigmatized world of the "fat girl" in his fourth published collection of photographs with wife, adult film actress, and plus-size model, April Flores. Featuring new and intimate photographs (including Flores' never-before-seen, highly mythologized early "blonde" Polaroids), Fat Girl captures an exquisite perspective unique to the celebrated "culture of beauty."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780985490263
Publisher:	Rare Bird Books
Publication date:	09/17/2013
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Carlos Batts was an award-winning artist, photographer, and director. His artwork has appeared on book covers (Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk, Random House UK), fashion magazines (VIBE, Complex, Maxim, WARP Japan), music videos, and comic books (DC Comics/Vertigo).

Sara Rosen was the publisher of Miss Rosen Editions, her own imprint, at powerHouse Books, where she was also Associate Publisher and Publicity and Marketing Director. She left after ten years to start her own company, Miss Rosen. She lives in New York City.

April Flores is an American pornographic actress and plus-size model. In 2009, sex toy company Topco released Voluptuous Pussy, a life-size inflatable doll named after Flores’ vagina but modeled as an exact replica of her entire body. She lives in Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

"In Hollywood, it seems, young and willing women stand on line to let Carlos Batts shoot photos of them in his idiosyncratic, eccentric manner. At his studio in Los Angeles, Batts transforms them into fetish divas and goddesses of lust. A few well-known porno performers also number among his models. The result is a multidimensional and unprecedented mosaic of crazily erotic photos. This is a book that every collector simply must have in his collection." —Screw Magazine

"Batts' pictures are enlivened by his unmistakable style. He meticulously stages his models' erotic auras. He's long since made a name for himself in the USA as an innovative newcomer. Stars of the fashion and music scene (for example, the rap musician Snoop Dog) book him for their shootings." —Photographie

"One can only stare in astonishment at the creativity and inventiveness of this American, who has settled in Hollywood." —Hersfelder Zeitung

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