Over the past twenty years, Robert has produced an extraordinary range of both male and female nudes. Classic Farber Nudes is a retrospective of his work.

The images in Classic Farber Nudes reveals the different approaches Farber has used to photograph the nude, from the romantic and sensual to the abstract. Divided into four periods between 1970 and 1990, the book presents an uninterrupted flow of beautiful nudes, printed one per page. As you travel through time with the photographer, you watch the soft focus approach of his early period gradually giving way to a fascination with abstraction and then with black and white, his favorite medium today.

Like the Impressionists a century before, Farber creates textured vignettes that capture timeless, intimate moments explored through By The Sea. Sharply attuned to the human affinity for the ocean, he uses his art to explore the many facets of that environment, forcing the viewer to observe the seashore with different eyes than before.

Robert Farber is celebrated for his sensitive, sensual, often abstract nudes. But his preoccupation with natural forms extends beyond the human body: landscapes and flower studies have been among his most popular pieces, and also feature among the works published in Natural Beauty: Farber Nudes. The technical proficiency fostered by Farber's background in commercial and fashion photography bestows an inimitably soft, grainy patina upon his increasingly simple, elegant, spare images. Light, color, tone, and composition are all carefully orchestrated to render a sense of stillness, silence, and peace. Whether presented as portraits or as abstract compositions, what these exquisite pieces have in common is their ability to provoke in the viewer a sense of quietude and contemplation. Painterly, textured, these masterly photographs prove that Farber's reputation as the doyen of mood is utterly deserved.

1976 "Images of Woman"

1978 "Fashion Photography"

1980 "Moods"

1981 "The Fashion Photographer"

1983 "Farber Nudes"

1987 "By The Sea"

1991 "Classic Farber Nudes"

1996 "By The Sea" revised softcover

2001 "Natural Beauty"

2004 "Natural Beauty" revised softcover

2004 "Farber, American Moods"