Braziliangels Hardcover – Illustrated, October 28, 2010

This is a great photographic essay of nudes. Joaquim Nabuco is a much more imaginative photographer than most, and the photos in this book are reflective of that. The angles and positions his models take are not unlike those of Bruno Bisang (though the film is much sharper and defined) or Ron Harris, but they come with a Sports Illustrated-plus-style playfulness (that's not an insult). The photos on pages 39, 53, 118-19, and 152, for example, are all classic. They are more painting than photo. One of these depicts a nude wearing a necklace of shells standing in front of window where the reflection of tropical foliage becomes superimposed on her skin. In another, a 17th-century painting of a female lute player is juxtaposed against a nude playing guitar on a sofa. For erotic photography, this is as good as it gets. Rio is actually captured here as well--in the lighting, the golden color of skin, and the everpresent shadows of those sugarloaf hills. The models, too, are not only indigineous (that is, these seem to be real Brazilian women, not Czechs), but beautiful and balloon with lovely shapes often set in direct contrast to the landscape. Sure, many of the photos are just pretty women posing (sometimes uncomfortably) with boa constrictors, but on the whole this is well worth the price and probably a worthy investment in a photographer on the rise.

Nabuco have his beautiful wife in the cover of this book and inside is much better, if you like photos of pretty woman this is the book.

Marginally good photography of relatively attractive women. You can goggle nude models and save yourself the money

This book in technical terms is very nice; the binding, cover, page quality etc. The Subject matter is quite another thing. Like so many erotic photography titles I always hope for the best and expect the mediocre, which is what I got with this selection. With a location like Rio how could you miss, it seems hard to do but this was a disappointment. The photos were taken in and around Rio, beautiful landscapes, beaches and city scapes; so what happened to matching the female subjects with the beauty of the Rio cities they were photographed in?? The women featured (recurring throughout the books) were average at best, I would have thought they would be more visually stunning to match the eroticism of the laviousness of the Rio countryside, a little more sensual; and as usual there was a lack of deeper skin tones and complextions. I would have to rate this a C+ at best.

Nabuco has a classic sense of beauty, in a modern, western kind of way. His ladies are all "done", with perfect hair, flawless makeup, and no trace of vulgarity about them. Genitals all appear gracefully figleafed, with a flare of sunlight, stem of flowers, bunch of grapes, delicate pose, or some such.At least one dark-skinned model appears, widening the palette that otherwise tends toward the pale. All, however, present themselves elegantly. These aren't the most demanding photos, or very prurient, or arty. It's a more modern take on the pinup esthetic, beautiful but untouchable. Still, it's easy to like, and to like a lot.-- wiredweird

To date this is the best woman/female artistically nude text/book that I have. I was slightly hesitant at first because I knew nothing of the photographer/author of this book. I am extremely delighted that he uses his own poses not the same old "sexy" this or that pose. You will not grow tired of this, for me it is a good collectors item.

Good to draw from.

Besides seeing a few sexy models nude, this is a fail pretty much on every level. It gets the 2 stars just because of the little bit of nudity & beauty of the models, but thats the only reason for the 2 stars. This is a epic miss on so many levels..& in a location like Brazil!! How could you miss so badly????? Theres no excuse for it..Smh. The lack of ethnicity is extremely disappointing!!! There are a couple real actual Brazilian models, but for the most part 80% are all just Caucasian woman modeling in Brazil.. Smh. Not taking anything from them because alot of them are very beautiful, but with a name like "Braziliangels" you expect high quality ethnic exotic beautifulness, but unfortunately you get very very sadly disappointed! All the models are all Caucasian, or if they are actually Brazilian they are so fair skinned they look Caucasian anyways(which i think is very purposely done by the photographer)!!. It should be titled different with that being the case! That is very disheartening. & there wasnt enough actual raw nudity!!!! We dont want or expect explicit ratchet porno nudity of course, but with the title of the book & Brazil being arguably one of the most exotic, sexual, ethnic, beautiful places in the world, you expect a whole lot of mind blowing super hott epic sensual exotic ethnic model nudeness/sexiness & honestly you get hardly any of that at all!! So many of the models are not even Brazilian! & so many of them are actually covered up in their bikini's not fully nude!!!! or they're covering up their goodies with their hands in different strategic poses..??? Wow!! :-/ just a big ole fat disappointment & a big big thumbs down man.. :-/ This was a pretty epic fail in every way Smh.