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Title: Still Life : Irving Penn Photographs, 1938-2000 by Irving Penn ISBN: 0-8212-2702-5 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 07 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: What's in a name?
Comment: This book should be titled "Food Photography and other Commercial Assignments" or "The Sixty-dollar Disappointment" or even, "How to make Money off of things I already got paid for." "Still-Life" is misleading as it indicates an artistic level this book does not attain to. If you're into Advertising photography, Penn is unique and often humorous but if you're looking for images to challenge you or reflect on, you will be disappointed, as was I. As for his personal work in this book, the question is, how many skulls and cigarettes do you want to look at? My personal opinion is, if you do something like that, do it, do it well, and move on. In short, most are sharp, well-lit, and well-printed but shallow, like most Advertising.
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic Penn
Comment: Irving Penn has been making still life photographs for many decades, and this collection is a good representation of his work. Elegant black and white compositions of the 1940s, detailed groupings since the 1980s, and his in-your-face color that we see frequently in Vogue today, there is some of everything. My only complaint is this: I would like to see more of his ads for Clinique. Only two are reproduced here. There are hundreds more, and most are more interesting that the two selected for this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: This is good but nothing new
Comment: Irving Penn is a great photographer and these images are wonderful. If you own other Irving Penn books, you probably have seen most of these. There's nothing wrong with mining old images and putting them in a book, but this is getting a little crazy.
Great images but if you have his other books, save you're money. If you want, you can buy me presents if the stuff is burning a hole in your pocket.
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Title: Irving Penn by Colin Westerbeck ISBN: 082122459X Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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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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Title: Evidence: 1944-1994 by Richard Avedon ISBN: 067940922X Publisher: Random House, Inc. Pub. Date: 10 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Avedon at Work : In the American West by Laura Wilson ISBN: 0292701934 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Diane Arbus: Family Albums by Anthony W. Lee, John Pultz ISBN: 0300101465 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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