Kustom by Dewey Nicks

F.Y.I.: This gorgeous montage of muscle cars, boob jobs and fun fur toilet covers is an unwholesomely perfect guy gift. -- The New York Observer, March 19, 2001 --Simon Doonan

Here’s an American scenescape laden with fantasy and fetish, artifice and ambition…-Ruth Peltason -- Paper Magazine, November 2000

Photographer Dewey Nicks is known for his shots of hot bods and hot rods. His first book…is a TESTOSTERONE-FUELED CELEBRATION… -- One Magazine, December 2000

sensationalistic bonbons—colorful, sleazy, and irresistible…a frighteningly accurate picture of a culture awash in self-obsession, not to mention money. -- The San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 2000

…a medley of American popular culture, treated with sincerity and devotion. …the surface describes the interior of these people… -- Dutch Magazine, January 2000 –Teddy Czopp

Dewey Nicks, born in St. Louis,"Gateway to the West," is the son of an advertising man. His family vacations were spent visiting Hollywood landmarks and promenading up and down Sunset Boulevard. Intoxicated with the glamor and eccentricity of the Los Angeles area, Nicks relocated there, studying photography at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Although he is a successful commercial photographer and director, it has been fashion shoots for magazines like Vogue, GQ and W that have provided Hicks with professional exposure as well as a "backstage pass" into the subcultures of L.A. Kustom is his first book.