Download or read book Naked Los Angeles written by Greg Friedler and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and startling collection of portraits following "Naked New York", one sees the "beautiful people" of Los Angeles first clothed, then completely naked. Duotone photos.
Download or read book Naked Hollywood written by Richard Meyer and published by Skira. This book was released on 2011 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanies the exhibition "Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles" held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, MOCA Grand Avenue, Nov. 13, 2011-Feb. 27, 2012.
Download or read book Naked at Lunch written by Mark Haskell Smith and published by Nero. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We are safely away and you can now enjoy a ... ' There was a pause, as if the Cruise Director was having trouble choosing what, exactly, he should call what was about to happen. Finally he said, ' ... a carefree environment.' Folk have been naked in public for centuries. But being a nudist is more complicated than simply stripping off. In Naked at Lunch, Mark Haskell Smith uncovers nudism's fascinating history - and gets involved, baring all himself. He visits a Spanish town where clothing is optional, and travels to the largest nudist resort in the world: a hedonist's paradise in the south of France. From clothes-free hiking in the Austrian Alps to a Caribbean cruise on the 'Big Nude Boat', Haskell Smith takes us on an entertaining frolic through the good, the bad, and the just plain naked.
Download or read book Wonder Valley written by Ivy Pochoda and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR Best Book of 2017 Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Pick Refinery29 Best Book of the Year BOLO Books Top Read of 2017 “Destined to be a classic L.A. novel.”—Michael Connelly When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles. From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific, from the 110 to Skid Row. During a typically crowded morning commute, a naked runner is dodging between the stalled cars. The strange sight makes the local news and captures the imaginations of a stunning cast of misfits and lost souls. There's Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to LA in search of his mother. There's Owen and James, teenage twins who live in a desert commune, where their father, a self-proclaimed healer, holds a powerful sway over his disciples. There's Britt, who shows up at the commune harboring a dark secret. There's Tony, a bored and unhappy lawyer who is inspired by the runner. And there's Blake, a drifter hiding in the desert, doing his best to fight off his most violent instincts. Their lives will all intertwine and come crashing together in a shocking way, one that could only happen in this enchanting, dangerous city. Wonder Valley is a swirling mix of angst, violence, heartache, and yearning—a masterpiece by a writer on the rise.
Download or read book Naked written by Brian Hoffman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the American nudist movement. While countless Americans had long enjoyed the pleasures of skinny dipping or nude sunbathing, nudists were the first to organize a movement around the idea that exposing the body corrected the ills of modern society and produced profound benefits for the body as well as the mind. Despite hostility and skepticism, American nudists enlisted the support of health enthusiasts, homemakers, sex radicals, and even ministers, and in the process, redefined what could be seen, experienced, and consumed in twentieth-century America. Naked gives a vibrant, detailed account of the American nudist movement and the larger cultural phenomenon of public nudity in the United States. Brian S. Hoffman reflects on the idea of nakedness itself in the context of a culture that wrestles with an inherent sense of shame and conflicting moral attitudes about the body. In exploring the social and legal history of nudism, Hoffman reveals how anxieties about gender, race, sexuality, and age inform our conceptions of nakedness. The book traces the debates about distinguishing deviant sexualities from morally acceptable display, the legal processes that helped bring about the dramatic changes in sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the explosion in eroticism that has increasingly defined the modern American consumer economy. Drawing on a colorful collection of nudist materials, films, and magazines, Naked exposes the social, cultural, and moral assumptions about nakedness and the body normally hidden from view and behind closed doors.
Download or read book Naked in the Rain written by Eowyn Wood and published by Crooked Hills Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buck Naked written by Joyce Burditt and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1998-05-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When L.A. P.I. Dutch O'Brien lands a job as a consultant for a popular detective TV series, she walks right into the line of fire. When the two main stars of the series bring their off-screen affair to a halt, the star, Buck Stevens unsuccessfully makes a play for Dutch. Later that night, in her apartment, Dutch receives a scented package from an unknown admirer. Inside is co-star Amy Westin's severed head with a note reading "you're next".
Download or read book Eat Naked written by Margaret Floyd and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading nutritional therapist Margaret Floyd's Eat Naked will help you strip away the overprocessed, overpackaged, and overdressed junk food from your diet. It's time to enjoy ''naked'' foods-whole foods that are fresh, organically grown, and prepared in ways that allow each food's naturally delicious flavors to shine through. In this book, Margaret shows you how to choose the nutrient-dense foods that will make you look and feel so gorgeous, you'll want to take it all off. You'll discover new ways to prepare foods without sacrificing flavor and learn practical tips for eating within your budget. Eat Naked includes easy recipes for all sorts of delicious things you can feel good about eating and making for others. Once you see how great you look and feel when you eat naked, you won't want to eat any other way!
Download or read book Naked written by Chester Lee Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first published work, former San Jose State football Chester Lee Coleman, guides readers through a riveting tale about his sex life. Chester's first novel is an autobiography encompassing the reasons behind having slept with over 200 women and never having a girlfriend. Born in what is known as one of Los Angeles' notorious hubs for its gang violence and hip hop music, Compton California. When Chester was a mere four years of age, blood gang members from Watts California attempted an assassination on his mother. By the grace of a force greater than any man/woman has witnessed. Chester and his two brothers lived through this traumatic episode. Chester was raised by his maternal grandmother for fourteen years while his mother became victim to the late 80's crack epidemic that destroyed many families in Los Angeles during the Reaganomics era. Growing up with no love from his mother who would eventually break his heart when she told an ambitious Chester that he wouldn't be shit nor would he make it to the NBA, his only dream. Chester vowed that day to never again allow any woman access to his heart. In 2017, Chester swerved lane to lane driving south on the 405 freeway while tears torpedoed down his cheeks. Chester began to ask why he was the way he was. What happened over the years that caused him to dislike, distrust, and look at women with such disdain? And why were his friends and family so mean and hurtful to him? In a flash back, Chester was routed to his childhood of memories that navigated him to the source of his internal pain...his mother. Having forgot the deeply rooted hard wire of hate for his mother, Chester began his quest toward healing himself. Having healed and finding Unconditional Love in his Heart, Chester invites you to feel his pains, his struggles, his hurts, his vulnerabilities, his passions, his triumphs, his downs, his scars, his love, his heart, and everything else... as he empties his soul and truly becomes Naked!
Download or read book Seeing Me Naked written by Liza Palmer and published by 5 Spot. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisabeth Page is the daughter of Ben Page, yes, that's right, THE world famous novelist. And yes, she's also the sister of Rascal Page, world famous novelist in his own right. So what does Elisabeth do? Much to her family's disappointment, Elisabeth is a pastry chef. And a pretty damn good one, at Beverly, the hottest restaurant in LA. The last relationship Elisabeth had was with Will, a man she grew up with and whose family ran in the same social circles as her family. But Will's constant jaunts around the world have left her lonely and brokenhearted in L.A. That is until Daniel Sullivan bids on one of Elisabeth's pastry tutorials at a charity auction. Daniel is everything her family is not: a basketball coach, a non-intellectual, his family doesn't summer on Martha's Vineyard, and the only metaphors he uses are about passing the ball and being a team player. But somehow they fit. Between her family, Will, and the new cooking show that Elisabeth is recruited to star in, Elisabeth's life is suddenly incredibly new and different--the question is, can she embrace being happy or has her family conditioned her to think she's just not good enough? Liza Palmer expertly depicts a woman trying to come to terms with professional success, personal success, and finally dealing with a family that might love her from the bottom of their heart but doesn't necessarily have her best interest always at heart.
Download or read book Naked at Lunch written by Mark Haskell Smith and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delightful and informative look at nudism throughout history and around the world.” —The Seattle Times People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as Mark Haskell Smith reveals, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. “Nonsexual social nudism,” as it’s called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, outcasts, and health nuts from Victorian England and colonial India to Belle Époque France and Gilded Age Manhattan disrobed and wrote manifestos about the joys of going clothing-free. From stories of ancient Greek athletes slathered in olive oil to the millions of Germans who fled the cities for a naked frolic during the Weimar Republic to American soldiers given “naturist” magazines by the Pentagon in the interest of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, this book uncovers nudism’s amusing and provocative past. Coated in multiple layers of high SPF sunblock, Haskell Smith publicly disrobes for the first time in Palm Springs; observes the culture of family nudism in a clothing-free Spanish town; and travels to the largest nudist resort in the world, a hedonist’s paradise in the south of France. He reports on San Francisco’s controversial ban on public nudity, participates in a week of naked hiking in the Austrian Alps, and caps off his adventures with a week on a Caribbean cruise known as the Big Nude Boat. Equal parts cultural history and gonzo participatory journalism, Naked at Lunch is “an absolute hoot” (Los Angeles Magazine) and “a total joy” (Meghan Daum). “Smith puts on his reporter’s hat and takes off everything else as he explores the history and sociology of nudism.” —Los Angeles Times
Download or read book Naked New York written by Greg Friedler and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and startling collection of photographic diptychs, we see average New Yorkers first clothed, then completely naked. Unlike traditional nude photography, these lack any overtly erotic or sexual quaity; they are simply real people who reveal both their public (clothed0 and private (naked) selves. A revelation of commonality.
Download or read book Beautiful Naked and Dead written by Josh Stallings and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Josh Stallings is the kind of writer who shouldn't have to publish for himself, but here he is slugging it out the hard way. Just like one of the hardasses in his own books. The man knows what to do with paper and ink. Read the damn thing." -Charlie Huston "Someone once said of Raymond Chandler that he wrote 'as if pain hurt and life mattered.' That's true of Josh Stallings, too. Hop on, kick the starter, and let him lead you on a long, painful, but entertaining ride through Moses McGuire's world. One hint: wear your helmet and your leathers. It might get messy." -Tad Williams BEAUTIFUL, NAKED AND DEAD is hard-boiled crime novel. Moses McGuire a suicidal strip club bouncer is out to avenge the death of one of his girls. From his East L.A. home, through the legal brothels of Nevada and finally to a battle with the mob in the mountains above Palo Alto, it is a sex soaked, rage driven, road trip from hell.
Download or read book The Naked Heartland written by Bruce (of Los Angeles.) and published by Janssen Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books focus on the groundbreaking homoerotic art of pioneers of male nude photography. From Lon of New York's stylized, classically posed portraits to Dave Martin's wholesome, athletic young men, to Bruce of Los Angeles' cavorting models, these books rescue an era of American photography that has virtually been forgotten. Other volumes are devoted to the formal, carfully posed portraits of Douglas of Detroit and the fun, kicky work of Pat Milo.
Download or read book Naked in the Woods written by Margaret Grundstein and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970, Margaret Grundstein abandoned her graduate degree at Yale and followed her husband to a commune in the backwoods of Oregon. Together with ten friends and an ever-changing mix of strangers, they began to build their vision of utopia. Naked in the Woods chronicles Grundstein's shift from reluctant hippie to committed utopian. Grundstein, (whose husband left, seduced by "freer love") faced tough choices. Could she make it as a single woman in man's country? Did she still want to? Although she reveled in the shared transcendence of communal life, disillusionment slowly eroded the dream. Brotherhood frayed when food became scarce. Rifts formed over land ownership. Dogma and reality clashed. Many people, baby boomers and millennials alike, have romantic notions about the 1960s and 70s. Grundstein's vivid account offers an unflinching, authentic portrait of this iconic and often misreported time in American history. Accompanied by a collection of distinctive photographs she took at the time, Naked in the Woods draws readers into a period of convulsive social change and raises timeless questions: how far must we venture to find the meaning we seek, and is it ever far out enough to escape our ingrained human nature?
Download or read book Naked Angel written by Logan Belle and published by Kensington Books . This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking it all off has never been so much fun. . . It's the biggest night of Mallory Dale's life. She's unveiling her sexy new burlesque club, The Painted Lady, and her boyfriend has a thrilling surprise for her. After four wild years, Alec is ready to propose, and he does it in her favorite place--onstage. Life is sweet--until Alec asks her to retire her pasties for good. But can she give up her boas in the name of happily ever after? Mallory isn't the only one torn between bliss onstage and off. An injury forced ballerina Nadia Grant to hang up her toe shoes, so now she's perfecting the art of the striptease and whipping the crowd at The Painted Lady into a frenzy. But one man is outraged--the man Nadia loves. Meanwhile, the club's financial benefactor is endangering his marriage--and the business--when he begins a sizzling affair with a young costume designer. Just when they're so close to having it all, will the stars of The Painted Lady lose everything? Praise for Logan Belle's Blue Angel "Erotic and glamorous, this story will carry readers away to a whole new world of excitement!"--Opal Carew, author of Six and Forbidden Heat "Logan Belle delivers a backstage pass into the wildly sexy world of burlesque with this intriguing story of one woman's decadent sexual awakening." --Jordan LaRousse and Samantha Sade, founders of OystersandChocolate.com and authors of Nice Girls, Naughty Sex "A hot, provocative peek into the world of contemporary burlesque." --Elizabeth Amber, author of Dane: The Lords of Satyr
Download or read book Weegee s Naked City written by Weegee and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1975-05-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate collection of Weegee's shocking tabloid photographs, from the ultimate tabloid city.
