The latest issue of S Magazine is out. As regular readers will know S Magazine is the brainchild of four Scandinavian photographers and contains cutting edge photography, mostly of beautiful young women, nude. S Magazine reads like a who’s-who of gifted modern photographers and looks like an art monograph bound and published by a high-end museum. The quality of paper and print is magnificent.

But, hell, we do not read it for any of that. S Magazine is one long paen of praise to the female form, unadorned except for the odd scrap of designer clothing, and even that gets lost…..

S magazine never worries about titles, so I am going to name this piece after its content. The focus this issue, accidental or otherwise, seems to be blondes. So for me, this is “the Blondes Issue”.

S Magazine Spring 2009

In this issue we get another set from Italian photographer Lorenzo Bringheli. It was Bringheli who shot a pictorial (in the last issue) of a rather aristocratic brunette in a bob, naked at night in public, always on the verge of being discovered. Here he goes from brunette to blonde, but keeps the aristocratic edge. The blonde has a Grace Kelly hauteur, even when naked. This guy is really good, this is very sexy stuff.

Another blonde features in Massimo Leardini’s “patterns of surrender” pictorial. However Leardini shows us a very different blonde, a woman who is natural, vulnerable and extremely sensual. It is an intriguing pictorial, one that draws you back to each picture. Mascus Ohlsson, one of the magazine’s founders gives us yet another blonde, truly beautiful, playing strip-tease games with light and shadows, aided only by a pair of super-high black stilettos.

This issue is over 400 pages long and I want to review it, not catalogue it. But I have to mention Steven Lyon’s shoot. His petite model is all attitude (think bitch) and the poses are all “take me, if you can”. If you want to see how sexy a girl can be wearing only a Panama hat this is the pictorial for you.

For those of you who want more than girls, there is an intelligent and thought-provoking interview with American artist Richard Phillips, amongst other articles.

Whenever I review S Magazine I am struck by how difficult it is to describe to you how good it is. So I know, what you need are the pictures, which is what I cannot give you. Just take my word for it, this is the most erotic photography magazine around. Buy it, you will become a subscriber and a collector.

Erotica for men of style.

Details

S Magazine is a mag with limited distribution and can be a little difficult to find. I buy it in London and know of two places to get it;

The Covent Garden branch of Waterstones Bookstore at 9-13 Garrick Street, London WC2E 9BA, Tel +44 (0) 20 7836 6757

The Covent Garden branch of Magma at 8 Earlham Street, London WC2H 9RY
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7240 8498

For those readers outside London and in other countries, I direct you to the S Magazine website www.spublication.com