Montreal, March 15th, 2010 – Masques et Mystères, a new book about a series of nudes by Wayne Schoenfeld just came out at Great Circle Books editions.

These portraits are personal explorations of some the models that Wayne Schoenfeld worked with. The camera captures what they choose to reveal and what they choose to cover, the masks and the mysteries are what they want the world to see and what is too intimate to share with an unknown viewer. It’s the vast space in between that our mind fills in to create the portraits of who they are.

“Bodies in motion, blurred and diffused in multiple exposures, sometimes alone and sometimes in duets of physicality. By intention, these nudes are transformed through the conventions of Western cultural tradition, from mere depictions of unclothed flesh to spiritual icons. They join the classic nudes – Venus de Milo on her marble pedestal at eh Louvre, the voluptuaries of Rubens, Botticelli’s goddess on the half-shell, the fairytale dancers of Degas and the gauzy young models of Renoir, all of them expressing a sublime notion of humanity that is uplifting as well as pleasing to the eye.” – Rex Weiner, editor-in-chief of Geat Circle Books.

The book is available at this website http://www.aandi.com/books/mem.html