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Title: Brian: A Nine Year Photographic Diary by Reed Massengill, David Sprigle ISBN: 1-883923-49-2 Publisher: Fotofactory Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Beautiful Pictures and an Interesting Concept
Comment: I noticed this book the last few times I browsed through several book stores in my area. Each time it stood out as if trying to catch my attention. I finally gave in and went through the book, first looking through the pictures then reading the introduction explaining the concept of the book's meaning. I was amazed to discover that the photographs in the book were of the same person. Due to the extreme differences the model Brian had in appearance, I had assumed that the photographer Reed Massengill had simply decided on making a picture book on various young men all named Brian. This really impressed me as the book started out with a young, relatively clean-cut man who gradually alters his appearance with varying degrees of hair styles and a progression of tattoos and piercings. I think this book is a nice window into the life of a 20 something year old man going through many identity choices in the last decade of the 2000 millennium. Not a traditional coffee table book by any means, I think Brian: A Nine Year Photographic Diary is a nice concept book that should be appreciated for it's lensing of a person living through a specific point in history.
Rating: 4
Summary: From Beauty to Beast - The Journey of a Man.
Comment: An interesting look at a person through the years - 9 years to be exact, in which the model morphs from a beautiful young man to an entirely different person - at least visually.
Although one of the thinner photo-essays, it should be in any shelf of serious collectors interested in the male physique.
Rating: 2
Summary: great concept, poor execution
Comment: I purchased the book because I was intrigued by its underlying concept to photograph a young man over a period of several years. However, the photographs were amateurish and were more like black and white "snapshots" than photographs. Since Brian was clearly posing, I had difficulty classifying the collection as more than a handful of pictures of an attractive model over a 9 year time span. Since these years were from the late teen to the late 20s, either Brian's physical maturation was too subtle or the photographic skill was inadequate to demonstrate transformation. The marking of time became superficial aspects: hairstyle and color, tattoos, and body piercing. Actually, the photographic style changed more than the model. In summary, the best part of the book was the creative idea of a photographic essay of a man over a period of time. Nine years may have been an inadequate time period, but I would predict that without the photogenic quality of youth, the pictures would quickly become even less interesting given the skill of the photographer.
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Title: Sam Carson: First Exposure by Sam Carson ISBN: 3861873591 Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Three by Howard Roffman ISBN: 3861870665 Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Pictures of Fred by Howard Roffman ISBN: 3861871297 Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Euros 08: Photos of Johan by Bel Ami ISBN: 3861870908 Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Greg Gorman: Just Between Us by Greg Gorman, Greg Knudson ISBN: 1892041561 Publisher: Arena Editions Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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