[Jay]

Has any body got this book?http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3822812919/qid=1142035668/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-4596030-6197500?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
It looks interesting and I'm thinking about ordering it but I don't want to waste my money, so I want somebody elses opinion on it. 😉

[fbbfan]

It is a great book…

Very good Art, lots of beautiful nude female muscle as well.

I have seen cheap copies of it up on eBay, so you definitely
want to shop around.

Another great book is the first Bill Dobbins book entitled.."The Women".
There might be a special on both books bundled together.

[Grandmaster]

I have both titles.

Modern Amazons, from 2002, represents the more recent style of photography that's on Bill Dobbin's website today. For pretty much the price of the book (used), you could join the online gallery and see more photos than in either of these books. Of course, that's a monthy fee. I suggest you browse the site. This will give you a pretty good idea of what you'd be getting in the latest book (although the most recently uploaded photos aren't from the beginning of the decade, obviously–and like an good artist, Dobbins's style has evolved).

These are the women in Modern Amazons (MA):

Nicole Bass
Laura Binetti
Andrulla Blanchette
Chris Bongiovanni
Th-Resa Bostick
Yvette Bova
Michelle Bradley
Monica Brandt
Cynthia Bridges
Sharon Bruneau
Ursula Buckanes-Henry
Tatianna Butler
Chris Cander
Valentina Chepiga
Melissa Coates
Robin Coleman
Tazzie Colomb
Deborah Compton
Laura Creavalle
Danijela Crevar
Leilani Dalumpines
Toni Dee
Latia del Riviero
Dina de la Llana
Amber Deluca
Diana Dennis
Beate Draebing
Desirée Ellis
Astrid Falconi
Melissa Frabbiele
Colette Guimond
Bethany Howlett
Yolanda Hughes
Trudy Ireland
Summer Kalish
Ericca Kern
Joanne Lee
Lesa Lewis
Timea Majorova
Janet Marchi
Sharon Marvel
Denise Masino
Debi Massey
Rachel McLish
Lenda Murray
Karla Nelsen
Yaxeni Oriquen
Shelly Paolinetti
Betty Pariso
Cathy Priest
Tyra Risby
Mona Roberts
Nicole Rollolazo
Christine Roxx
Martha Sanchez
Stacy Simons
Viviana Soldano
Heather Tristany
Michelle Tuggle
Marietta Zigalova

If you weren't into female bodybuilding in the early '90's, you may not see any favorites in The Women (TW), which is a 1994 publication:

Erika Andersch
Michelle Bradley
Sharon Bruneau
Kim Chizevsky
Laura Creavalle
Leilani Dalumpines
Diana Dennis
Bev Francis
Nikki Fuller
Sue Gafner
Carey Hensley
Dorothy Herndon
Raye Hollitt
Yolanda Hughes
Suzan Kaminga
Drorit Kernes
Debbie Kruck
Anja Langer
Joanne Lee
Lesa Lewis
Debbie Muggli
Lenda Murray
Sha-Ri Pendleton
Sue Price
Latia del Riviero
Denise Rutkowski
Heather Tristany
Hannie van Aken

Thumbing through the books quickly, I see:

There are more B&W photographs in TW than in MA.
TW has more pages with multiple photos per page.
TW suffers (my personal evaluation) from too much white space.
TW is almost exclusively studio shots. MA has more location shoots.
MA has larger images, more pages total, and more (and mostly) full-bleed pages (the images extend to the edge of the book page).

The photos in MA run a wider gamut of locales, body parts, and themes than TW's, but neither collection focuses on bland stage-poses (whether shot in a studio or the desert), but "contortion" to show the physique's dimensionality, and the semblence of movement of the body. There are very few "pretty" faces or come-hither looks, and they are not pornographic (in the Muscle Elegance sense).

I hope this is helpful.

grand

[Grandmaster]

It looks interesting and I'm thinking about ordering it but I don't want to waste my money, so I want somebody elses opinion on it. 😉

What did you decide, Jay?

[burb]

Bill Dobbins is the reason I got into FBBS. There was a muscle+fitness FBB special in 1995 I think, called Sensous Muscle or something like that. I love the way he pays so much attention to getting all the definition out. SOmething about a powerful body with delicate lacy underwear tentatively covering it.

[Anthony Durrant]

Wasn't Bill the husband of Debbie Dobbins, the bodybuilder?

[Author]

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