Bel Ami's Secret Eye Hardcover – February 9, 2013

The pictures are not always perfect quality but the moments they capture are extremely erotic and intriguing. This books also has more behind the scenes “hardcore” pictures than other coffee table books from Bel Ami that portrait the models clearly and beautifully but with little erotic action. I really enjoy this book and derive much pleasure from it. One of my favorites. Electric, intimate and sexual.

I was expecting more tasteful or elevated shots but honestly this really gives you a snapshot at what the pornstars do after the camera stops recording! Adds humanity to the performers.

The beautiful lads who have made George Duroy's Bel Ami industry infamous as the pinnacle of young sensual desire are the focal point of this fun book. Photographer Robo Melo has created this book for BRUNO GMÜNDER Verlag Gmbh. The book opens with an introduction by George Duroy, written in Bratislava, Slovakia - the site from where his models gather - and then the rest of the book is laid out in snapshot format of the models at play, at preparation for their work, in private moments and in moments of pure exhibitionism. The mood is one of enjoying the companying of each other as well as taking the opportunity to simply show off!The models in the book are listed by name - Kevin Warhol, Andre Boleyn, Dolph Lambert, Dario Dolce, Julian Hussey, Kim Kerouac, Adam Archuleta, Claude Sorel, Jack Harrer, Ariel Vaneau and Johnny Bloom - and each one comes alive as a person instead of simply an Adonis. Throughout the book Melo offers comments on the action or just bits of admiration for the stunning models he has the pleasure of capturing for the audience. This book is both a fun foray as well as some finely sensual compositions. Grady Harp, January 13

I am a big fan of Bel Ami, but I am disappointed with this book.I think it's an effort to be different only for the sake ofbeing different. Giving all the pictures the appearance of beingover-exposed and blurred, does an injustice to the natural beautyof the boys and the joy of their relationships. We buy Bel Amiproducts because we want to SEE the boys and their antics, notbecause we want to see pictures that would have been discardedas bad shots 40 years ago. (For those of you too young to rememberphotography prior to the digital age, it was much better than this.)To add insult to injury, in spite of Amazon's careful packaging,UPS still managed to smash one corner of the cover.Being the compulsive collector of "all things Bel Ami" that I am,I will keep it for my collection, if only to show others what adisappointment it is.

While the photos are well staged for the most part, there is a distinct lack of full frontal male nudity in a book that shows the on set lives of pornstars. Disappointed in how few fully nude pictures there are, especially ones of hard penises or actual generation.

This is no way near as bad as others said. Yes the photos are not the ones you expected to see. However, I just think the photographer really intended that way. I enjoyed it.

If you are used to the normal Bel Ami coffee table erotic books, this is not that type of book. These are candid shots of the models relaxing andenjoying life. The quality of the pictures, appears to have been taken by a 2 Megpixel iPhone. Poor colors, poor exposures, blurry pictures.If you want one of those sexy hot Bel Ami photo books, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK !!!

Brnuo Gmunder and Bel Ami have set such a high standard with their beautiful photo books that this one is a bit of a disappointment. When you've had ace photographers like Howard Roffman, Benno Thoma and Joan Crisol producing rich tomes with superb color and monochrome reproductions, it's a bit of shock to come across the somewhat ordinary images produced here by Robo Melo. Now I realize the idea behind this book is for a behind the scenes look at the actors with candid shots and the like, as distinct from the posed ones by previous photographers. And with that in mind this book is certainly not without merit. With 256 pages and some very cute and sexy young men to play with, there are still plenty of nice photos to appreciate including quite a few erection shots and some very cheeky sex scenes. Nice to see that the Bel Ami boys enjoy their own company for fun and sex outside of their usual film commitments.