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Although fictional, novels contain information about material conditions, social customs and values, the organization of institutions, and individual perceptions and identities. Part of information history, realist novels help us understand the psychology of human beings and the dynamics of their political and social interactions. Coleman places Sturges in the context of current debates surrounding censorship in the arts, and discusses the themes of innocence and sexuality in thephotographs.Each realist novel collects, interprets, and transmits information about what it means to be human in a certain time and place. In the book's afterward, noted photography critic A.D. These personal reflections shed light on the unique collaborative process by which Sturges's remarkable photographs are made. Elizabeth Beverly's introductory essay, drawn in part from conversations with Sturges's subjects, adds a new dimension to the photogarphs. Physically and psychically revealing, these deeply felt images are glorioiusly natural and wonderfully compelling. "Radiant Identities" is the second volume in Sturges's ongoing work. Now in its fifth printing, "The Last Day of Summer "has outlived and transcended that ordeal, drawing both critical and popular acclaim throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and bringnig Sturges well-deserved artistic recognition. Aperture's 1991 publication of Sturges's first book, "The Last Day of Summer," came shortly after the FBI's much-publicized raid on his home in California, the confiscation of thousands of his images-deemed "pornographic"-and the subsequent rejection of the case by a federal grand jury. In superb reproductions, Sturges evokes the classical spirit of Old Master paintings and late-nineteenth-century photographic tableaux, while probing concepts of emergent sexuality and psychological intimacy. These unforgettable images are made from his own circle of acquaintances and family the settings are their homes and stretches of naturist beaches in France and Northern California. In "Radiant Identities," photographer Jock Sturges explores issues of youth and the liberation of body and spirit.