Rick Day Bel Ami Hardcover – September 1, 2016

Breathtaking photography by Rick Day. It is hard to go wrong with the beauty of the Bel Ami boys, but staging them is always a sign of greatness. Rick Day does an amazing job with staging as he shows off the intense physique art of these beautiful nude male models. A BIG book for the coffee-table, makes the art even more amazing and pleasing to view.

Wow. This is quite an impressive body of work from Rick Day. If you are a fan of Bel Ami then this will definitely satisfy your eyes. The boys in a natural background created beautiful contrasts between flesh-tones and colorful settings of nature. This couldn't have been done better.

I have always been a fan of the photography books of the Bel Ami guys. The book is actually much bigger than I anticipated but it is after all a book of breath-taking photographs. The only reason I didn't give it a five is that I wished the pictures/pages were laminated but overall, I am a satisfied customer. I am and always will be a Bel Ami fan.

A very good conversation starter when someone is over and happen to grab it off of the coffee table.

As a taster for his much-anticipated new book RICK DAY NYC MEETS BEL AMI the calendar released earlier proved an appetizer with an example of twelve of the models from that book. As expected, that teaser was a valid promise a very spectacular volume. Rick Day seems to grow more eloquent with each step in his career. His work has been published in numerous publications such as Elle, Details, Teen Vogue and GQ and he has shot advertising campaigns for Gap, Ritani and Rufskin. When not traveling, he is shooting the hottest faces in the industry – and for those who know the Bel Ami models - perfect in youth and body and attributes beyond eyes and looks - the results for this collection live up to that standard. In a generation where beauty is obsession and sex is a product, he has cataloged the world's sexiest exhibitionists in their most intimate moments.Some of the perfectly fit models are subtly nude while others are semi nude with each in restful inviting repose as only Rick Day knows how to capture that late afternoon ennui feeling. This is a daring collection for Rick as many of the models, revealing their youthful appetites, are in a state of full tumescence. The interesting aspect of how Rick deals with these hunks is the manner in which he doesn’t focus on the excited area but instead simply makes it an accoutrement of being young and ever-ready! Beautifully posed and photographed with and without accoutrements, this coffee table book will satisfy on every level. Grady Harp, August 16

Great images. The only reason I did Not give it five star is because of the design. Many images are split in half and the ridge of the book really made them distorted. Other than this , it is perfect.