"Stefan Rappo is the photographer of emotions. He creates subtle and inconspicuous images without ornament or demanding staging: a return to the natural state and the primacy of emotions." - Normal Magazine Stefan Rappo's nude photography strikes an intriguing note between intimacy and distance. At first, the viewer feels a certain distance, and in the next moment they are entangled in the picture's tangible tensions and emotions. A long-time assistant to Peter Lindbergh and a renowned portrait photographer, Rappo has found his own nude pictorial language that focuses on the female form - at times drawing on the studio tradition and at others revelling in the body in motion. Nude, Rappo's first publication, brings together some of his favourite nude photographs, indispensable for those who love nude photography. AUTHOR: Born in 1972 in Friborg, Switzerland, Stefan Rappo is a photographer. At the age of 30 he quit his job making heavy forestry equipment to study photography in the South of France. He worked as a photo assistant for Camilla Akrans, Bruno Aveillan, and Peter Lindbergh, with whom he has worked for over seven years. In parallel, he developed his own projects, including staged cinematic photo stories, portraits, and female nude photographs. SELLING POINTS: . A lavish coffee table book and must for every lover of contemporary nude photography . Stefan Rappo works closely with star photographer Peter Lindbergh since many years 200 colour and b/w photographs