Perhaps no other age has been as transfixed by the body in all its forms -- by the lure of the physique -- as has our age. Indeed, we are saturated with images which attest to this obsession, and yet most of these depictions display only banal superficiality. In this climate of prurient consumerism, of naked excess, the notion of the striptease seems faintly quaint. But this book, which assembles images by over ninety international photographers around the theme of stripping, presents something new: here is an alluring and powerful document of a ritual with ancient roots. Strip celebrates the eros and suggestiveness still inherent in the simple act of undressing, and the result is a wide-ranging examination of the body's limitless capacity to captivate. Some of the photographers included are Mark Borthwick, Hiromix, Dolores Marat, Terry Richardson, Six Six Four, Carter Smith, Kumi Oka, Shanta Rao, Masa Kobayashi, Gerard Malanga, and Guy Aroch among many others.