Books

LA photographer's book on women with freckles

freckles-book-emily.jpgReto Caduff is a Swiss-born photographer who lives part-time in Los Angeles and who, apparently, really likes beautiful women with facial freckles. His new book of images, called just "Freckles," is a limited edition of 500 numbered copies which features "portraits of young women with various amounts of freckles – from a slight cluster on the cheek to faces covered with the beauty marks." The book is released on Monday and got an item in today's New York Times T Magazine. "I’ve always liked freckles,” he says int he blurb. "But working on shoots over the years, I noticed that they usually get covered with makeup or digitally removed in post-production. So I decided to celebrate the spots rather than erase them.”


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