No comments about Guerlain.

No comments about Hats: A Stylish History and Collector's Guide.

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No comments about Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters.

5 comments about Any Objections?.

1. In fashion photographer Mario Testino's first published book of photographs (1999) he shows over and over that he has a wicked sense of humor, a priceless asset for anyone and certainly for a photographer. Who else would shot an aroused elephant ("Jumbo")? Or Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss seated facing each other on toilet seats? (One of these women is buck naked but you'll have to purchase the book to see which one.) There is also a series of four photos that are entitled "Roving Fingers." Check out what I call the mad-hatter carrying a sign that reads "Gays in the Millinery." There is lots of skin here since several of the photographs are of scantily clad folks at the beach in Rio de Janiero. Many of these images are far more erotic than the much posed models currently published in so many photography books. (I would put the photo entitled "Dreamer" in this category.) Many of the people are so real that you can almost smell them. the two-page foldout of a painter in Lima ("Exhibitionist") comes to mind. There is much cleavage, both fore and aft and just as many crotch shots as well.
   
   
   
   A word about the layout: there are several pages that fold out with photographs that mirror each other. Although the pages are not numbered, the photographs are reproduced in smaller size in the back of the book, complete with titles and the places where they were shot: Rio de Janiero, Paris, Naples, Moscow, Miami, New York, Moscow, etc.
   
   
   
   Almost everyone in this hooty volume appears to be having a good time. You will too if you pick up this book that several books published later imitate but do not surpass.



2. O.K. so I'm not a photographer. I've no expertise to offer save as one who likes photographs. This having been said, this book is so much fun! I love it! What others may have justly criticized as poor lighting, poor composition, or poor exposure, has, for me, an entirely different effect--I'm left feeling as if I were present, drinking it all in, flowing with the chaotic, glamorous moment, of sometimes beautiful people in their not necessarily beautiful lives. The characteristics which others find a detraction make it, for me, a lived experience--which is not to say that the people become more likeable but they at least become more understandable.



3. Mario has a way of making you feel like -- GOD I WISH I WAS THERE in this book ... if you like him you'll love this book



4. Even though he is one of my favorite photographor, I did hesitate to get this one , becasue all the reviews were not CLEARLY cool-but WHO CARES to get a photography book and it was not time to choose a life time guidelines or English dictionary to find out which one contains more words and clear to understand.
   
   Turned out, it was such a good and fun photography book to joy the moment. From this "ANY OBJECTION?", more than Fashion and SEX, he has created as a whole new concept of PHAIDON'S own style. Sex is not a serious on here as he often makes in its own way. However, even tough his art pieces contained homosexuality, full nudity scenes, there are not any shocking sex/gay scene to look at. Things were processed his view way. I enjoyed to have them and to look at. Plus, it is collectable work. :-)



5. Pense comentar acerca de Mario en espanol, porque es para nosotros un orgullo hispano...no solo por el talento y creatividad sino por el estilo y la perspectiva que tiene del arte. Sin duda, no tengo ninguna objecion! ,muchos exitos.

No comments about Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion.

No comments about Brioni (Universe of Fashion).

No comments about Fashion and Women's Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century.

1 comments about Evening Dresses: 1900...1940 (The Twentieth Century-Histories of Fashion Series).

1. 19th Century background sets the stage for the first four decade of 20th century development of style. La Belle Epoque, the languid tango, the impetuous Charleston, right through the fabulous thirties, the important stylists of Haute Couture from Worth to Poiret from Lanvin to Schiaparelli are represented up to 1940 when wartime put a punctuation on the evolutions of elegant styles. This volume is extensively illustrated with many unusual and unique period engravings, photographs and advertisements. Valuable illustrations.

No comments about Fashion World of the 18th and Early 19th Century (Skarby Muzeum).