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A thought-provoking collection of Mapplethorpe's sex picture
This collection of pictures is bound in a good quality cover and printed on a glossy paper of reasonable quality. One word: Ouch
You can always debate whether this book is "art" or not, but thefact is I am worried about what happened to some of the subjects. Helmut? Are you okay?I think Mapplethorpe wanted to shock, and he did, but Ifound the pictures had too much pain in them to be appreciated.I wasdeadened to what Mapplethorpe wanted to say, if he wanted to say anythingat all.Ouch, ouch, ouch.

very good book
artistic and powerful,i recommend it ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions    2. Gay Studies    3. Individual Photographer    4. Nudes & Erotic    5. Photography    6. Subjects & Themes - Erotica    7. Subjects & Themes - Portraits    8. Erotic art    9. Gay studies (Gay men)    10. Individual photographers    11. Photographs: collections   

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Get to Know this Complex Woman
Berthe was obviously an anomaly in her day and age... and, being self-deprecating and reticent, might've actually wished to be forgotten.She WAS literally forgotten for many years after her death.I am grateful to Ms. Higonnet for writing the book, but I felt throughout the reading that, although it was obvious Ms. H. admired Berthe, she didn't truly understand her.It bothered me that most of the book was about OTHER people, although her life DID seem to be about OTHER people.Berthe was generous and hidden, yet daring and "out there."It was probably very difficult to find the true Berthe.She was obviously very much beloved by the other Impressionists and her contributions as the catalyst of the group were immeasurable.But I wanted to know more.I didn't like it that each time she had an accomplishment, it seemed to be overshadowed, in the biography, by moving on to the accomplishments of one of the other more luminous figures in her world.Berthe was beautiful, dedicated, a wonderful mother and wife... after years of pressure by society and her own parents whose biggest fear was that she was to stay a "spinster" (who the HECK invented that word???)...I really felt for Berthe.But was she bulimic?Was she anorexic?What WAS the true nature of her mental challenges?I'd like to have seen some more of that area explored - as it has been so deeply investigated in the case of Vincent van Gogh.Whatever her maladies, we've got to admire the fact that she, unlike Mary Cassatt, DID have it all - career, family, home life, social recognition... and balanced it all so beautifully. But I wished Ms. Higonnet had given us just a bit more to grasp onto.

Berthe Morisot
GREAT BOOK!!I bought this book used from That Book Lady, Thorough and perceptive
My first reaction to Anne Higonnet's biography of Berthe Morisot was that it was a bit stiff. I had recently read Dominique Bona's "Berthe Morisot: Le secret de la femme en noir" and found that book to be well done, even though lacking documentation and even though indulging in "maybe it was like this" speculations from time to time. But I very much liked Dominique Bona's informal style, referring to Berthe Morisot as "Berthe", while Anne Higonnet almost always refers to her as "Morisot" (a small issue but one that is quite representative of the stylistic difference in the two biographies).Read more

Subjects:  1. 1841-1895    2. Artists    3. Artists, Architects, Photographers    4. Biography    5. Biography & Autobiography    6. Biography / Autobiography    7. Biography/Autobiography    8. France    9. Individual Painters - 19th Century    10. Morisot, Berthe,    11. Art / General    12. Biography: general    13. Impressionism    14. Individual artists    15. Morisot, Berthe    16. Painting & paintings    17. Post-Impressionism   

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My oldest possession.
It's true, this book is my oldest possession, from an earlier printing, I've had this book since the early 70's. If you are a painter and want to learn how to put space and light into your work then this book is your greatest resource and greatest challenge. For those in the know, Morandi is THE ONE for creating a palpable space in two demensions. The space shimmers and moves - it's real!

Excellent book
The prints are excellent - both in terms of variety and quality of print. I use them in classes and they are really a treasure.The text is very readable and enjoyable as well (though I care more about the printquality). ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1890-1964    2. Art    3. Art & Art Instruction    4. Catalogs    5. Criticism and interpretation    6. History - General    7. Individual Artist    8. Individual Painters - 20th Century    9. Morandi, Giorgio,    10. Art / Individual Artist    11. History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -    12. Individual artists    13. Morandi, Giorgio   

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum    4. History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)    5. Individual Artist    6. Techniques - Painting    7. Individual artists   

Editorial Review

Georgia O'Keeffe, who was born in 1887 and lived nearly 99 years, was a prolific, successful artist whose work was exhibited continually throughout her adult life. To give an impression of the scope of this two-volume boxed set, here is a sentence from the preface by Barbara Buhler Lynes: "The catalogue reproduces and describes 2,045 objects, made by O'Keeffe between 1901 [when she was 14] and 1984." And for an idea of the care Lynes brought to her task, here is the next: "Of these, 2,029 were located and examined between June 1992 and December 1998: 821 on canvas or board; 1,137 on paper...."Read more

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for a gift
I bought this item for a gift, so I can not say anything about this item. But he was satisfied.
a whole view of her life's work
Well produced and comprehensive, as a whole it adds up to a devastatingly beautiful record of the life's work of the artist with accompanying text on her key influences and relationships.

stunning
Like a museum in a box, quite frankly. You can find it for $99 (yes, the entire set, full size, etc.) at The Met museum's online shop- a great bargain ~ metmuseum.org ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1887-1986    2. Art    3. Artists, Architects, Photographers    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Catalogues raisonnes    6. Catalogues raisonnâes    7. History - General    8. Individual Painters - 20th Century    9. O'Keeffe, Georgia,    10. 20th century    11. Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers    12. Catalogues raisonnés    13. History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -    14. O'Keeffe, Georgia    15. Painting & paintings    16. USA   

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Great recipes, easy steps, wonderful results.
This book puts you on the fast track to grafting the styles of famous artists into your own work through more than five dozen easy-to-follow recipes. Not surprisingly, you'll find yourself learning more than you originally expected to about Photoshop.

not-so-fast ...
Earlier this year I reviewed what many will see as the companion volume to this book ("Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers"), written by the same author. Unfortunately, the newer publication is less useful. It seems to have been written on a pretext that it's clever to be able to duplicate what traditional artists can do. This seems - from my own personal viewpoint - to be greatly undervaluing the power of Photoshop (and similar software). Practitioners of digital fine art should (really, constructively) be looking to explore what the principles of prior and traditional art can mean within a new domain.
Excellent!
Wonderful effects for the artistically inclined.The recipes in this book truly are easy to reproduce.You can apply these techniques to any of your digital photos. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer Graphics - Design    3. Computer Graphics - Game Programming    4. Computers    5. Computers - Other Applications    6. Operating Systems - Macintosh    7. Operating Systems - Windows    8. Computers / Computer Graphics / Design    9. Computers / Other Applications    10. Computers/Operating Systems - Macintosh    11. Computers/Operating Systems - Windows    12. Digital techniques    13. Image processing    14. Photography    15. photoshop, adobe, digital photography, digital effects, photoshop effects, artistic forgery, artistic effects, daguerreotypes, calotypes, tintypes, pre-raphaelites, muybrudge, stieglitz, man ray, lissitzky, paul strand, edward weston, walker evens, dorothea lange, answel adams, bill brandt, henri cartier-bresson, brassai, cecil beaton, yousuf karsh, irving penn, arnold newman, angus mcbean, ernst haas, les krims, don mccullin, jerry uelsmann, david bailey, robert mapplethorpe, annie liebowitz, david hockney, sebastiao salgado, martin parr, mick kent, mantegna, da vinci, durer, caravaggio, el greco, rembrandt, vermeer, turner, caspar david friedrich, impressionism, seurat, van gogh, gauguin, cezanne, whistler, munch, hokusai, chagall, modigliani, picasso, futurists, salvador dali, hopper, o'keefe, grant wood, diego rivera, warhol, lichtenstein   

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Not one of the best Helmut Newton books
In fact, it is one of the worst. Still, I rate this book 3 stars. Helmut Newton. What a great photographer!

On time: classic Book
Hugh Hefneris One of the Coldest Playa's on the Planet. the Cat always Kept it Gangsta.Much Props&Daps always to Hugh Hefner. this Book is On time.very artistic&Very Creative. the Ladies are Beautiful&Look fly. my only knock is that every once&in a while is that Hugh needs to Bring some More thick chicks into the Mix. but other than that this is a Tasteful&cool Visual. My Eye-sight after viewing this Book is Better than it has been in years.sexy Ladies always have been great for my eye-sight&Playboy has had plenty of them that have corrected any shortness of sight that I thought i was having. Props to HughHefner&to the Photography of Mr.Helmut Newton. that is one of the Ultimate Jobs to have. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Individual Photographer    2. Individual Photographers And Their Work    3. Non-Classifiable    4. Nonfiction    5. Photo Techniques    6. Photography    7. Portraiture    8. Subjects & Themes - Erotica    9. Subjects & Themes - Nudes    10. Subjects & Themes - Portraits    11. Photographs: collections    12. Photography / General   

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seeing through the opaqueness
whether this is Mann's best work it certainly is the most thought-provoking, when you think of the Deep South, you think of a place much like Stravinsky's Russia,Eastern Europa,or parts of New York State intolerant,class-orineted;superstitious,but also one that savors progess and the science of the image, the sensual,the evocative,but a place also defeated,Appomattox, that really has takened long to live with, in fact defeat is covered everyday in the macho-isms that has been part of popular strains in music.
Transcendent Images
Mann is one of the very most gifted photographers of our time. In her landscape work, she finds the perfect marriage of technique and subject matter--marrying the processes of 19th-century photography and historic lenses to the subject matter of great sites of the South, the profound and mysterious ways in which site carries memory. In doing so she has created images that seem to derive from our own memories, carrying the ghostly presences of the past, embodying something we hold in our minds while adding something distinctly new as well. Mann's are transcendent, glorious photographs that should be examined and appreciated by anyone with a discerning eye for great work from our own time.

Magnificent and complex
This is certainly Mann's best work. The landscapes seem destilled from both southern history as well as intimate and collective dreamworlds - both beautiful and intimidating. Look for a truly transcendental image that depicts a wooded landscape scarred by some kind of disaster. The image merges with the scarred emulsion of the glass plate to form a scull like shape that seems to expand into a fragment from and infinite outer space. An ambiguous, singular and extremely rewarding work of art. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1951-    2. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions    3. Individual Photographer    4. Individual Photographers And Their Work    5. Landscape photography    6. Mann, Sally,    7. Photo Techniques    8. Photography    9. Photography Of Specific Subjects    10. Southern States    11. Subjects & Themes - Landscapes    12. Techniques - Color    13. Central Southern states    14. Photographs: collections    15. Photography / General    16. Places & peoples: general interest   

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Matisse - He Shocked the World Yet He Pleases The Eye of the Individual!
Such a wonderful book to read! After seeing his works of art at the museums in New York (MET - MOMA); in Maryland (BMA); and in California (San Francisco), it is a joy to the human spirit to read this biography. This book offers the reader all the underlying events contributing to each of his major works of art. It allows us to better appreciate his extreme and intense efforts to create; it allows us to recognize his unquestionable courage to be himself while many of the art world turned away from him; and one will learn of his life long love of the natural world (birds and plants) and his view of the importance of the spirit of man. Further, this book allows the reader to see his social frustration; one can learn of his powerful drive (so red hot) to create, and one will see in words how he commanded everyone around him to assist him in his zeal to achieve his personal best in art. As the book denotes towards the end even Picasso, the great competitor, stated in a discussion of one of Matisse's later works (the Chapel in Nice): 'Only Matisse could do this!' Read to learn, read to know, and read to be more deeply passionate in love with Matisse as I am!

See New Dimensions of Matisse's Work
Those of us who live today are spoiled in one sense that we don't realize:We can see Matisse's work on display and appreciate its evolution.That wasn't possible until just the last few decades.Until then, many of his most powerful works were locked up in the Soviet system and not on display or were in the hands of reclusive collectors.
Inspirational
Being a artist sometimes one needs to see new the world around them. The pressures of family life and the ability to do what you do sometimes empties the soul. What I find the most interesting is the perspective given to the self appraisal and the internal struggle Matisse went through in his personal and business dealing. Anyone interested in the business aspect of the art world from the artist perspective will find this book helpful in both personal and professional dealings. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Matisse, Henri,    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Individual Painters - 20th Century    5. Individual Artist    6. France    7. General    8. Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers    9. Artists, Architects, Photographers    10. 1869-1954    11. Biography & Autobiography    12. Artists    13. Biography   

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Individual Artist    4. Individual Painters - 19th Century    5. Individual Painters - 20th Century    6. Art / Individual Artist    7. Impressionism    8. Individual artists    9. Painting & paintings   

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Better Off As Girls?
Sally Mann succeeds in showing girls on the cusp of womanhood, some of them appearing androgynous, others decidedly feminine.There are a few adults in these pictures, including friends and strangers.There is no nudity other than one of an infant lying reclined between a woman's legs, and neither person can be identified.
Amazing, thought-provoking book
This is one of my favorite portrait photography books.It's often profoundly disturbing, with such poignant images capturing girls on the verge of womanhood, offering us glimpses not only into the children that they were but into the lives they're going to lead as women, and it isn't all pretty.
just awful
just awful
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Subjects:  1. 1951-    2. Collections Of Photographs    3. Girls    4. Mann, Sally,    5. Photo Techniques    6. Photoessays & Documentaries    7. Photography    8. Portraits    9. Subjects & Themes - Portraits    10. Photographs: portraits   

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one of the best...
Modiliagni might be undervalued in the world of artists and painters. He should be honored as well as Picasso, and friends...
Best book out there on Modigliani
For those who love the sensuous work of this early 20th century master, this text is the best on the market. The pictures span the entire short career (he died at age 36) of this artistic genius. There are stunning images throughout. The colour reproduction is superb, and the paper used is of the highest quality. Read more

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General    4. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum    5. European    6. Exhibition Catalogs    7. History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)    8. Art / Individual Artist    9. Art styles: c 1900 to First World War    10. Exhibition catalogues and specific collections    11. Individual artists    12. Italy    13. Painting & paintings    14. Individual Artist   

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Mann Captures Childhood's Natural Beauty
It's hard to see why there has been such a legal fuss over the photos contained herein, especially the luminous photos of older daughter Jessie, who was interviewed in the 1993 documentary "Blood Ties", which showed other photos not in the book [alas]. I only hope Mann has a chance to have published other photos of her children from this period, as well as some feom the 4 or 5 years immediately after [from about 1990 to 1995]. In the documentary, daughter Jessie was completely relaxed about all of the fuss, and seemed relaxed about being photographed without any clothes on in several photos. She wore nothing in several unpublished photos I've seen from the same period, like photos entitled "Venus After School", and "The Good Daughter". In an Aperture magazine retrospective on her from the early 2000's, she was very succinct in stating that she saw nothing wrong in any of this, and even more previously unpublished photos were published for the first time, proving that Jessie could be the subject of her own book. Here's hoping! This book is not to be missed! Don't let the controversy scare you away, before it's out of print for good!

A Vision of Innocence
Looking through the photographs in this volume, I feel so glad that Sally Mann's children had the freedom to just be themselves.You can see it in the pictures--nothing is "staged" or "put on," though you *will* see the kids playing at being grown up.Mostly, though, these are pictures of her children dressed and undressed, sprawled in the mud or playing games together or taking a nap.There are a few adult friends, but mostly these are photographs of the children.
controversial,good photography,a bit disturbing
this is an interesting book of photographs which have been deemed controversial by modern society.mann photographs her children sensitively and you really get to know them through these photographs,in saying that i was surprised the photograph of the wet bed is legal,as it clearly shows the genitals of the child,this is the one photograph i found disturbing.
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Subjects:  1. 1951-    2. Exhibitions    3. Individual Photographer    4. Mann, Sally,    5. Photo Essays    6. Photography    7. Photography of children    8. Photography, Artistic    9. Subjects & Themes - Portraits    10. Individual artists    11. Photographs: portraits   

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Offering an intimate portrait of the artist in work and life
Primarily known for his luminous color paintings, the French artist Henri Matisse was also involved in designing stunningly beautiful stained glass windows and even ventured into the realm of architecture as well. Matisse: From Color To Architecture is a seminal work by Rene Percheron and Christian Brouder and the first to focus on these lesser known endeavors by one of France's most renowned painters. Offering an intimate portrait of the artist in work and life with a focus upon Matisse's work in his final years on the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence and the nursery school in his hometown of Le Cateayu-Cambresis (both of these buildings are located in the south of France), this 384 page compendium is enhanced with 396 illustrations (247 of which are in full color) and includes beautiful reproductions of Matisse's most famous paintings drawn from the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, the Hermitage Museum, the Barnes Foundation, and the National Gallery of Art. These works are paired with documents and photographs culled from the archives of the Matisse estate. Included are first-hand accounts from the participants in the Vence and Le Cateau projects. Matisse: From Color To Architecture is an original and recommended contribution to personal, professional, academic, and community library Art History and Architectural Studies collections.
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Subjects:  1. 1869-1954    2. Architecture    3. Art    4. Art & Art Instruction    5. Artists' preparatory studies    6. Color in art    7. Criticism and interpretation    8. Decoration & Ornament    9. France    10. History - General    11. Individual Artist    12. Knowledge    13. Matisse, Henri,    14. Art / Individual Artist    15. Fauvism    16. Individual artists    17. Painting & paintings   

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Excellent presentation of Monet's works through his career
This is an excellent book. Sproccati's comments in the beginning are clearand engaging. The best part of the book isthe collection of color plates.This is a large book, allowing for large reproductions of many of hispaintings. High quality paper, well-focused colorful plates, almost none ofwhich are split over two pages, and well-organized and thought-out ordermake this an outstanding value. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Artists, Architects, Photographers    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. European    5. History - Impressionism    6. Individual Artist    7. Reference    8. Sale Adult - Art & Art Instruction    9. Sale Books   

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An Outstanding Monograph on the Art of Hans Memling
Thought to be a pupil of the more famous Roger van der Weyden, Hans Memling was born in Seligenstadt (now Frankfurt am Main) in 1435 and flourished in his time as one of the great Flemish or Northern Renaissance painters. He died in Bruges in 1494. Though Memling painted in all the usual forms of his day - altarpieces, works for cathedrals and hospitals - he was a master of portraiture, painting faces with meticulous detail, suggesting the character of each sitter, and each glowing with life. His 'Portrait of a Man' is one of his most recognizable works, a young man in black cloak and hat sharing a gold medallion/coin with the viewer.In other portraits of old women we see the human side of the cloistered Renaissance woman.
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Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum    4. General    5. Individual Artist    6. Subjects & Themes - Portraits    7. Art / General    8. Exhibition catalogues and specific collections    9. Individual artists    10. Painting & paintings    11. Portraits in art    12. Renaissance art   

Editorial Review

Thomas Moran hiked through the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone in 1871, when most folks back East thought that stories of hundred-foot-high geysers, thousand-foot-deep canyons, and such were probably hogwash. After he submitted his glorious paintings of cliffs, rapids, and sun-struck vistas, Americans were finally persuaded that the West was as real as it was wild.It is largely because of Moran's glowing, oil-painted testimony that a formerly skeptical U.S. Congress soon preserved those spectacular lands.This book is the catalog of the 1998 retrospective of Moran's work, which opened on the 125th anniversary of the dedication of Yellowstone National Park. Anderson's essays cover every phase of Moran's life and career, from his work as an illustrator and printmaker to his success as one of the gentleman painters of New York City. It contains scores of archival photographs of the rather theatrical Moran as he aged, with his ever-lengthening, ever-whitening chin whiskers, and such treasures as a long letter he wrote from Yellowstone to his beautiful wife, Mary, in which he blithely describes rattlesnakes, tarantulas, and wolves observed at close range. The letter is signed "Your loving Hub." Along with Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, John Frederick Kensett, and other 19th-century landscape painters, viewers often associate Moran with what he called "a wonderful age," the optimistic years between the Civil War and the Great War. This book contains plates of every quintessentially American scene he painted--the pulsing sunset over the pristine wilderness, the windswept mountain pass, the misty, rushing stream. A scholarly book, it nonetheless captures much of the wonder Moran and his peers felt for the vast Western landscape and the glowing future it represented. Read more

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An Amazing Book
My wife and I were looking for a Thomas Moran book with LOTS of reproductions of his pictures.This book appeared to be what we were looking for.I had Amazon find a copy for me and I gave it to my wife as abirthday present.It was perfect.Lots of reproductions.Lots of goodinformation.Well-organized.

Moran is a favorite
This book is the next best thing to seeing a Moran in a Museum. I'm a landscape artist and love his work. The book took me out West where Moran painted and made me feel the experience. A fantastic experience! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1837-1926    2. Art    3. Art & Art Instruction    4. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General    5. Exhibitions    6. Individual Artist    7. Moran, Thomas    8. Moran, Thomas,    9. Art / Individual Artist    10. Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies    11. History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900    12. Individual artists    13. Painting & paintings    14. USA   

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A wonderful voice behind the paintings
How many great painters have been eloquent on their work or methods, or, for that matter, on art or culture in general?In recent times, only Ad Reinhardt compares with Agnes Martin, who has that rarest of gifts among the non-literary, a voice.In a series of articles, some of which were apparently talks given to art students, she delves into consciousness, creativity, judgment, personal development, self-assurance, transcendence, meaning, value.She takes on the big subjects with language that is gloriously unpretentious in a style epigrammatic and occasionally poetic. Quiet and Quite...
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Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Criticism    4. Essays    5. History - Abstract    6. Individual Artist    7. Techniques - Drawing    8. History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -    9. Individual artists    10. Painting & paintings   

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Its Not Just For Animators
The images of the dray horses pulling heavy loads is worth the price of admission for me. This is a great reference for artists who want to createrealistic images of animals in motion. It's a fabulous settler of bar roombets. It's a source of animated gifs for web designers (I have the runningcat image that's been going around.) Indispensible Reference for Artists
Muybridges momumental work photographing animals in all different gates and poses and tests of ability. Using sometimes up to 100 cameras for a single set up to gain what is now the definitive guide for animators in understanding the motion of animals. It all started with a $25,000 bet:Eadweard Muybridge and a friend argued whether all four of the horseshooves leave the ground completely at any point during a gallop. Beingfunded for the project, Muybridge proved to be the winner in saying thathorses do in fact leave the ground for a momentary second in their strides.The book begins with an anlaysis of locomotion, going over the walk, theamble, the trot, the rack (or pace), the canter, the transverse-gallop, therotary-gallop, and the richochet, along with the leap and buck and kick.There are roughly 4,000 photos in this collection which claims to be thelargest collection of animals in motion. It features not only horses butlions, deers, oxen, elephants, birds and kangaroos. From this development,Muybridge not only discovered that horses gallop with no feet touching theground, but his discovery led to motion pictures, in which his photos is avery crude version of cinema today. Later he designed a viewer called aZoogyroscope (or Zoopraxiscope) which, similar to a Zoetrope, was acarousel with slits which you look through while it is spinning to give theillusion of motion (or persistence of vision). Today these pictures arelooked at for a couple of reasons, mostly as nastolgia for one to havewonder and excitement of this simple cinema, but it also is a greatreference for modern animators. In fact, for those looking at animation, Ican tell you that if you ask for an application to Walt Disney AnimationStudios, they will give you their requirements and texts, this will be onthe list. Highly reccomended for the artist, graphic, fine arts oranimation or anything else you can dream of. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Animal locomotion    2. Art    3. Human locomotion    4. Individual Photographer    5. Photography    6. Physiology    7. Pictorial works    8. Techniques - General    9. Animal behaviour    10. Animal physiology    11. Photography / History   

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Review of "Helmut Newton: Big Nudes"
The book is in beautiful condition and got here in a timely manner. Very pleased with this transaction.

Wry Visual Humor, Good Variety of Nudes
The only reason I did not give this book the full five stars is because I feel there was more of a sameness to this selection of photographs than is true of most of Helmut Newton's work. This "sameness" is of uniformly high quality, exhibiting the inventiveness and playful sequences characteristic of his images. On one page, a group of stylishly attired women appear in stationary or moving poses; on the next page, the same women in the same pose appear nude.Newton has a taste for this sort of dress/undress contrast, as he does for incongruous assemblages:a woman lying in the midst of seaweed thrown about by incoming waves on the beach; another nude lying on an expensive fur coat, while sprawled on the lawn; cords tied in a pattern across the torso of a woman gesturing with her arm in a bodybuilder's pose. Occasionally, Newton produces a truly outstanding photograph, even relative to his own standards; such an example is that of a woman caught mid-breath as she inhales cigarette smoke.The sensuality of this is immediately present on viewing, catching the reader/viewer's eye irrespective of the less-than-appealing reality of smoking.
Classic Newton
Helmut was a genius. I feel qualified to say this because I once had the honor of being his assistant. Standing next to Helmut while he shot gave me little clue as to how his pictures became so signature.. This book is more of his clever self, the subjects are the most beautiful women in the world... wearing nothing.. Amazing. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Individual Photographer    2. Photo Techniques    3. Photography    4. Erotic art    5. Individual photographers