First published by teNeues in 2001 on the heels of his award-winning book Nudes, this sumptuous collection of powerful, sensuous photographs of the female form is now available in a new hardcover edition designed to appeal to a wide audience. Bitesnich's photographs embrace the classic ideal of womanly beauty and transform it into a sublimely artistic exercise of form, composition, and contrast. By treating his models as truly artistic objects'abstract, architectural, and natural?Bitesnich imbues his celebration of women with the insight and originality of a true master.