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Title: Africa by Herb Ritts ISBN: 0-8212-2121-3 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 22 November, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: I have to agree with the others
Comment: AFRICA does not represent the best work of the late Herb Ritts. He was a master of the celebrity photograph and a good director of music videos. But the image of Africa that he portrays in AFRICA is, well, the Herb Ritts version. It certainly does look like a collection of stills from a music video, and it would not have been surprising to see Naomi Campbell pop up now and then.
Herb Ritts seems to have made the beautiful African landscape (and his human subjects) a backdrop to his own stylistic preferences, as opposed to revealing anything new or previously unknown about the continent. A better title for this book may have been "Herb Ritts," because his signature is on every page.
Look elsewhere for his best work, such as NOTORIOUS.
Rating: 4
Summary: it's creative and beautiful. . . .give Herb a break!
Comment: its a sensual and magical collection of photos. they are beautifully shot, creatively composed, and wonderfully printed. no, it does not tell the whole story of a vast continent--but don't require it to! this isn't photojournalism, and isn't trying to be.
it is a powerful view of a particular landscape (kenya) and certain individuals of the maasai. you've never seen nakedness look so natural on someone--a wonderful reflection on being human, rather than any comment on race or tribe. lighten up, and let yourself enjoy it!
Rating: 2
Summary: Stunningly Uninteresting
Comment: Putting the politics of this book aside (it is something of a Maplethorpe meets Tarzan movies) the title alone is deceptive. Although the pictures were clearly taken in Africa, or on a black-and-white Tarzan movie set made up to look like it, the book has little to do with Africa.
Instead, it is an art project. A series of would-be beautiful black and white shots of a few "natives" running around naked. Maplethorpe and others did the photography better. This book actually feels a lot more like Janet Jackson's black and white music video in the desert than anything else. The fashion photography feel was self-evident. I kept flipping the pages looking for the inevitable shot of Naomi Campbell. Alas, to no avail.
I, being a 30+ year fan of photography urge you to do what I did. Go to your local bookstore, look at the pretty (mediocre) pictures, and spend your hard-earned money on a doggie calendar or something of the sort.
This book sucks.
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Title: Herb Ritts by Herb Ritts, Patrick Roegiers ISBN: 0500974896 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Notorious by Herb Ritts ISBN: 0821219111 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 24 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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Title: Herb Ritts:Work by Herb Ritts ISBN: 0821222961 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $135.00 |
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Title: Patrick Demarchelier: Photographs by Patrick Demarchelier ISBN: 0821225146 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Richard Avedon Portraits by Maria Morris Hambourg, Mia Fineman, Richard Avedon, Philippe de Montebello ISBN: 0810935406 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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