I have to admit, this book was unexpectedl; ESPECIALLY in this incredible, oversized and luxurious printing. That being said, if you release a photographic capsule on Vanessa Del Rio you have two choices:
1. delicately find the odd frame and 'portrait' that captures her essence but avoids the x rating
OR
2. embrace the x, show her in all porn's prurient truth.
Taschen, no shrinking violet of a publisher, chose the second path. THANK YOU. To see period porn in extra-large, art-glossy print, quickly surpasses fetishistic purvey. Rather than try to recapture the dirty underground experience that was 70's theatrical porn, Taschen wrapped Vanessa Del Rio in the highest of design and aesthetic book experience.
This is a glorious book in both content and creation, by a publisher that outrageously celebrates the porn experience rather than denigrates it.