MUSE DESIRE & SEVERANCE

Muse Desire & Severance by P J Boman. The women in photographer P.J. Boman's "Muse: Desire & Severance" look as though they're living in Paris or New Orleans before the first world War. These women undress in the shadows. They wash their hands. We can see that Boman loves a woman's bare back. One of his models smokes alone on a bricked street, a streetwalker's pose. Boman, born in Sweden in 1962, explains over the phone from his home in New Orleans that he became a photographer after a youth spent watching silent movies and new wave French films with the sound turned off. Ah, this explains why his photos have the quality of stills from an Erich von Stroheim flick. Boman tells how the pictures in the book were a collaboration between him and his wife, Fiona. The book itself is dedicated to a woman born in 1891 named Audrey Munson, who modeled for many of the statues of the female form that grace the city of New York. Munson perches aboard a chariot at Columbus Circle. Munson stands naked above the entrance to the Frick Museum. She also stands naked in the Pulitzer fountain in front of the Plaza Hotel. Adult Material. Out of Print. Condition: Very Good. Cover wear. Rip in front cover inside top edge.