Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Friday, October 24, 2008

I want this book


"Misty Dawn: Portrait of a muse", by Jock Sturges

Jock Sturges is an American photographer who has published some fab books and exhibitions and worked for important publications such as Vogue Japan and Italian Marie Claire. He has been photographing Misty Dawn for 25 of her 28 years of life. The photos are excellent, as usual with Sturges' work.
His case rememebers me to David Hamilton's. Both have been accused of pornography and of photgraphing nudity in young women. I'm not going no talk about the controversy around their work here. I'll just say that I can't see disrespect or anything like that anywhere here.. Maybe the ones who think that should look at the photos a little bit more and with a new vision without the influence of suspicion that sometimes turns into paranoia..Mr. Sturges is an artist, a fantastic photographer that is just doing his work, taking pictures from the world around him and doing some really great stuff like this collection, dedicated to his muse, where we can see the evolution that happens to most of women...from a sometimes insecure and fragile child to a confident and wonderful woman.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

My brand new books!

Some of my London book purchases...



After searching for Banksy's graffitis, hoping to see at least one and not finding any...I decided to buy the book (which is great).
Brideshead Revisited...for the plane (and now I keep reading it). And the movie will be on the cinema soon, by the way.
One of the cutest, mostfantastic books I've ever seen/had..."This is for you" by Rob Ryan. I'll make more pics of it soon so you can see a bit more of it. It's so beautiful, and all the text and illustrations are cut out of paper! . How cool and incredible is that? I highly reccomend his blog and his website, both great ways to know Rob's world a little bit more.