An exclusive preview of perhaps the sexiest thing ever to land on a coffee table: Monica Bellucci, a new book from some of the world's top photographers as they interpret a goddess of our time.
A Few Words from the Subject:
I have always been intrigued by the representation of the human body: faces, mouths, hands, legs, arms, hair, glances, nakedness. It's the art of our Mother Nature.
When I was a young girl I would daydream while looking at the photographs by Helmut Newton, Bruce Weber, and Richard Avedon, but I never had the body of a model. I was tall, but not tall enough, and curvaceous without ever wanting to be thin. I've never sought the perfection dictated by laws of the fashion world. Maybe it's because I don't believe in perfection or in any law that demands that we all look the same. Yet this book represents more than twenty years of my life in front of a camera. I've offered myself to its gaze, with creativity, and also by giving into my femininity.
When I entered the world of cinema, this creativity and the ability to let go accompanied me and gave me the confidence to trust the person shooting me with a camera. I'm like a muse who enjoys watching an artist portray her and who lives only through the people who describe her form. This is the reason I know that I'll never be a photographer or a director. It's not because I'm passive, but because my role lies in the active choices I make as the subject. In the end it is an expression that is similar to love: you devote yourself with passion and generosity only to those who know how to stimulate you and lead you to reveal yourself. —Monica Bellucci, 2010
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