Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Sports Illustrated; 20128th edition (May 11, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603201165
ISBN-13: 978-1603201162
Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 1 x 13.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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Over time I have collected or received five of these SI Swimsuit books and figured I would write a review that gave my personal opinion about them. The books are: Knockouts, In The Paint, Heaven, Portfolio Explorer Edition, and the huge Swimsuit 50-years of Beautiful. All are good books, no real lemons in the group, so depends on what you are looking for. Here is my list of favorites in order with any pro's and cons:1) Knockouts - Large, square shaped book with high quality images with a wide range of models from the 60's to 2000's. I like the size, quality of pages and print, very little text and and obviously most important the actual images are well printed and usually all on one page so not broken up by the spine.. Overall I thought the feel of a book showing beautiful women in swimwear in exotic locations was strongest in this one.2) 50-Years of Beautiful - A close second, huge book, which gives huge images. A nice history of the SI Swimsuit edition is provided as well as images of the covers and shots of all the models that have ever appeared. Nicely made with good photo paper. Limited but some text. One pet peeve, some full page images have text on the page, which annoys me. Knockout never puts text onto one of the image, but uses boarders or previous page to tell about the image. Still a strong book worth owning and strongest about the history of the SI swimsuit edition over the decades.3)Portfolio The Explorers Edition - Overall nice book, I like how it breaks down the book by individual model (about 10 pages each) No writing on the images and large sized pages. Only "downside" is that it only covers a small number of models (maybe there are other similar editions with some of the older models from 80's-90's as these are mostly newer models).
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