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Title: The Spirit of Family by Al Gore, Tipper Gore, Albert, Jr. Gore ISBN: 0-8050-6894-5 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very powerful
Comment: I despise both the Republican and Democratic party, and I didn't vote for Al Gore in the last presidential electoral farce, but I must admit I was taken aback by the collection of photos he and his wife, Tipper, assembled in this book. Their authorship is little misleading, however, for they're only editors--not photographers--pulling together--with the help of photographers--a vast array of works by numerous skilled and apparently hardworking camera artists and workers.
Few photo books show the diversity of the human project as this one. The Gores dare to include images a gay couple, of an interracial relationship, of the everyday poverty lived throughout the front and backyards of this country--of the old and the young, the sick and the afflicted, the violent and the peace makers, the believers and the doubters, the workers and their children, the faces and bodies of a cultural mosaic that makes up the republic.
The images are rugged, urbane, rural and rustic in tone. They provide a voyeuristic look into the homes of people we can't see on t.v. or People magazine. Some of them are so personal that we wonder what they mean, but others only mirror the human condition--the living and loving, the believing and doubting, the holding ourselves together despite our frayed existence.
These are not wholesome, American pie photos. They break the media codes of slick Hollywood images or stereotypes of family. Seen together, the collection gives off a truer meaning what is family, of how, as the Gores contend, "families are changing." So for me, no one particular photo stands out, even though the individual works of Sylvia Plachy, Nicholas Nixon, Lauren Greenfield, Laura Staus, Eli Reed, and Arlene Gottfried, convey a particular style and depth.
I also particularly like the point the editors make in their introduction, that "America's finest photographers have long believed that the greatest subject for their craft is not wars or the dramatic events of history, but the way people interact with one another--how they touch; how they hold their children in their arms; how they get through the day with all the stress, strains, and joys that life hands them; how one generation relates to the next." This is in part what I call the human project. And what better way to capture it than with photography.
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Rating: 3
Summary: Get the other one
Comment: This book didn't blow me away. There are some good pictures, a lot of so-so pictures. I'm not sure how anyone else could have done a whole lot better. One picture is seared into my mind. It is orange. If you have read the book, you may know what I am talking about. Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Gore. On the other hand, "Joined at the Heart" is excellent and I highly recommend it. This one can be skipped.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Spirit of Family
Comment: This is a very moving book. Who would think a picture book could be so telling. The Gores should be congratulated for documenting families is such a creative, insightful way. This book is a keeper!
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Title: Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family by Al Gore, Tipper Gore ISBN: 0805068937 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore, Albert, Jr. Gore ISBN: 0452269350 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton ISBN: 0743222245 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 09 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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