Study of Pose: 1,000 Poses by Coco Rocha

I really don't know what the complaints are here, as seen in other reviews. The book is exactly what it says on the tin; it never purported to be anything else. 1,000 fascinating poses by Coco Rocha. That's what it *is*, and it's very useful to me as I pose figures in the 3D/CGI domain. Yes, the paperstock is whisper-thin, and occasionally I need to glide my finger between stuck pages... but so what? The poses are mostly very modern-looking, as though from modern dance, but there are some classic, "old-fashioned" poses in there, too. The chunky, heavy volume looks chic and handsome, and I am perfectly pleased with the book. What is the "other thing" that the complainers here were looking for, I wonder?

Amazing book. As an aspiring model, I find it very helpful. It gives inspiration and boost your creativity. you can practice the poses at your home or just pick the ones you like and try to give your own style. Modeling is hard, its not easy to pose in front of a camera when you don't have the experience. Now, with this book, you have 1000 poses to be creative with and to never bore the photographer. I have to say that the pages are very thin and they came stick to one another. My book came on backwards, but I didn't return it because, for me, is like the book itself is making a pose. Other than that it's a great book, I recommend it to any person interested in the fashion world in general.

My book arrived badly damaged. The box undergo severe damaged during shipment. I reached out to customer service and they were able to replace my damaged book within a few days. I am very happy with my replacement book. The quality is excellent. I would definitely recommend it and would buy it again.

I'm a photographer and looking at those poses i got very exited!, i can't wait to use some of them in my next work. I think this is a book that every creative (painters, sculptors, photographers, Models, etc) should have. The reason why i gave 4 stars is because the Cons with the organization and printing quality in the book. Overall i love the book and i highly recommend it to everyone.Pros:- Very Original Poses- Great Photographs- Lots of content- Very attractive lookCons:- Personally i think is missing some organization, maybe a content table where you can refer to specific type of posing. Currently the book have a thousand poses in a row and you have to either take a picture or get a lot of book markers to identify your favorites.- Page quality, definitely this is a book that you must handle carefully because the pages are so thin that you can break them so easily!, also they get stuck and you have to take them apart with a very delicate precision. I wouldn't mind paying 20 dls extra for a better page quality.- Weight, it's MAD heavy, maybe they could print it in 3 parts even thou price will go higher.

I bought this book for my gf since she is a huge Coco fan, and once I give it to her she was so happy! She kept looking at each page a long time and showed me how good Coco looked in each pose.

When I hear the phrase "strike a pose", I think of a person freezing in a particular body position, if only for an instant, while a picture is taken, and then moving on to the next pose. This book has a much different definition of pose in that many of the "poses" are just intermediate frames of dancing and jumping moves that are impossible to hold and would rarely if ever be used as actual poses for a photograph. Many of these "poses" are unflattering, with the model's arms partially obstructing her face or the body frozen in contorted, unbalanced positions.On top of that issue, because the producers of this book decided that half the pages would be nearly blank, with just a big number from 1-1000 on the bottom, they were forced to use a thin onion skin-ish type paper that sticks together, making the book almost impossible to use! Considerable force has to be used to separate many of the pages, sometimes damaging the pages in the process. How could this problem not have been noticed and dealt with before release?I suspect this book is an attempt to get some cash out of the long term 360-degree photography project the author mentions in the preface. Maybe in digital form, with access to all the angles, this project would have some value, but in unusable printed book form with only space to show one view of each pose, it's a waste of paper and money.

Love everything about it! As a fashion designer, this amazing book helps me in a thousand ways. Teaches you about the art of pose, displaying emotion, and technology.

I really love Coco and admire her greatly, and she has done a fantastic job in the making of this book with Steven. Like the other reviewers said, the pages are thin and I fear ripping them because they are stuck together. But aside from all that, by content, this is what I think of the book.I find this book to be a fantastic work of art, but I feel like it is a lot more of capturing dance poses than the study of pose/posing as a model. The poses she has are hardly those you see in editorial prints or lifestyle prints. A lot of the poses really look like dancing or acting poses. She has goofy expressions in a lot of them and very dynamic movement poses, or storytelling poses. I haven't looked through all 1,000 poses yet but it is a lot more artistic moment-capturing in style than I expected, which was really being able to study posing coming from such a successful high-fashion model. 1,000 poses is a challenge and I greatly respect and admire the work Coco and Steven put into making this book, but I guess I wasn't expecting it to be so dancer-like. To shoot 1,000 print and editorial looks would be a serioussss challenge though. She is also wearing the same outfit in the whole book and the photography look is the same - like the one on the edge spine of the book - which I suppose makes sense given the "challenge," but makes it even more of an acting/dancing "poses" book to me. Also, because her style of posing in general involves a lot of movement, it's really hard to "study," in my opinion. It's a great show-off work of art between Coco and Steven though, truly incredible collaboration.

Probably the best and more comprehensive posing book. A MUST have for any serious female model

Great book but the pages are stuck together with the printing process and the paper isn't the highest quality. Need to send it back to get a refund.

Excelente, habia deseado este libro desde que salió! Excelente la tapa dura para protejer el interior, ya que las páginas son de papel delicado. Es comprensible son mas de 1000 paginas.

Le livre est arrivé dans une boîte typique Amazon avec un peu de rembourrage, ce qui pourrait aller pour un produit lambda, sauf que ce livre-ci est structurellement faible, même au niveau de sa conception mécanique tout en étant très lourd. Donc d'emblée, boîte standard = no good, et donc une petite bugne sur un des bords (photo 1). Grrr!Mais le pire vient après, lorsqu'on retire le plastique et que se révèlent toutes les autres défaillances techniques, pourtant tout à fait prévisibles pour un professionnel (photos 2 à 6).Car on ne peut pas s'attendre à ce qu'un lourd bloc de plus de 1000 pages se maintienne dans une reliure telle que celle-ci est conçue. En effet, l'idée de génie pour que le super-lourd bloc pages en question ne s'arrache pas de la reliure est qu'il ne soit jamais transporté/stocké autrement qu'à la verticale, dans le bon sens. Car si la marge est de quasi zéro en bas, entre le bord extérieur de la reliure et celui du bloc pages, faisant que, ainsi posé, le bloc ne "tire" pas sur ses attaches lorsqu'il est sur une étagère, il y a par contre une marge de 4 ou 5 mm du côté haut. Résultat: dès que le livre est posé la tête en bas, ou bien dès que le poids et l'inertie se mettent à jouer lors du transport dans une boîte standard où il n'y a pas, par exemple, un petit rectangle de polystyrène qui câle bien le bloc en question, le bloc s'arrache de la reliure.Malheureusement, les défauts de production ne s'arrêtent pas là. Le livre est encré, taillé et relié sans doute avec un séchage inadéquat sur du papier de qualité inadaptée, ce qui fait que, outre les déchirures sur toute la longueur des charnières intérieures avant et arrière, les pages photo sont collées deux à deux sur les trois bords taillés. Ce n'est pas comme dans certains livres où les feuilles ne sont pas bien coupées. Ici, la pression de la lame de taille + le séchage inachevé collent les trois bords. Tout est noir alors évidemment beaucoup d'entre elles en étant décollées arrachent des petites écailles d'encre, chose super visible puisque le papier est blanc derrière.Donc, partant d'un concept épuré avec des photos superbes, on se retrouve avec des images magnifiques gâchées par une réalisation d'imprimeur débutant. Quel dommage!

Ja die Seiten sind dünn und gleben ein bisschen zusammen, nur finde ich stellt das kein Problem dar. Bei mir waren nur die Kanten der Seiten zusammengeklebt was sich mit ein paar mal durchblättern sowieso gibt. Außerdem würde ich sagen, dass es ein Buch ist mit dem man vielleicht etwas vorsichtiger umgeht und auf die Seiten achtet, bei mir sind bisher auch keine eingerissen oder ähnliches.Zum Inhalt:Ja die Posen sind sehr ausgefallen, aber das war ja das Ziel dieses Projektes. Ich finde es wahnsinn was Coco Rocha mit ihrem Körper darstellen kann und welche spannenden Formen entstanden sind. Die Drucke sind sehr gut augelöst, und generell sind die Fotografien, besonders mit unter durch die Lichtsetzung, genial gutIch persönlich verwende das Buch um die Posen zeichnerisch zu studieren wofür es sich, wie ich finde, sehr gut eignet. Ob es sich lohnt zu kaufen, kommt find ich sehr darauf an, was man sich von dem Buch erwartet, generische "natürliche" Posen wird man hier kaum finden.