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Title: Live, work, dream.(Springfield Extra)(A Springfield photographer converts his building into a New York-style loft that fits an artist's bill)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: April 30, 2009
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: L1

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Pure pap
I found this book in the seatback on an Amtrak train from NY to DC so I don't know if it was forgotten or just left as the trash that it is. It took about ten pages to realize that it was just pure sleeze, and i gave up after getting half way through it within 15 minutes. I could slap myself for wasting that much time. I enjoy good erotica, but this is more like pulp putzing.

Once lost, but now found
In the year 2000, in response to a personal loss, I culled many, many books from my library as I was planning to move and needed to limit the poundage of items to pack.There were only two books I have since missed terribly, and this book is one.Its honesty isn't always easy to take, yet the women's stories of their experiences stayed with me.Having lost track of the names of the photographer and interviewer, as well as the exact title of the volume, today I am celebrating the fact that my long term search on Amazon for this book is over by ordering a replacement today.P.S.The other book I will be replacing is Andre Acimen's "False Papers."Blessings to all in the great community of readers.

In case you haven't seen the book...
...a text and photographic interview with 35 women of all ages from America, Europe, and the Middle East.The book is just as much about, for example, a 43 year old American photographer, a 56 year old teacher from France, a 36 year old cigarette vendor from Morocco, a 47 year old civil servant from Germany, a 59 year old events coordinator, a 49 year old Norwegian health councilor, a 37 year old Israeli philosopher, as it is about the few women -- a filmmaker, age 30, from the States, or a 53 year old Israeli sex educator or a 25 year old Moroccan belly dancer -- who you might call sex workers in the broadest sense.

The authors, who themselves appear in the book, asked various women four questions:
- What does the word "erotic" mean to you?
- Do you remember your first erotic feeling and could you show it to the camera?
- Can you remember your strongest erotic feeling and show it to the camera?
- Do you have a certain fantasy and could you show it to the camera?

The answers are sometimes earthy, and sometimes lack what we used to call critical consciousness, but they're vivid, varied, and honest.

The most innocent reply is from a Moroccan woman who says after being bartered away as a wife to a nomad, "It was only after my divorce that I got to know erotic feelings.It was when I felt love for a man whom I still see today.With him I am free to express myself.I can love now in more than only the one or two positions which we traditionally know in nomad life.Sleeping together in one big bed the whole night long is exciting for me.I am free to praise Allah for these feelings."

Her photos show her lifting the bottom of her headdress to show... the full-length dress she's wearing underneath.

Some of the other interviews are wilder or more explicit, but each woman's story offers similar insight both into the breadth and the limits of eroticism in everyday life.

I bring this up because I just bought it in a bookstore.It seemed like an appropriate gift for a friend on her 40th birthday...it's neither moronic nor at all about porn stars or prostitutes...It's a cool book.I'm not sure it was worth [the price], but it's certainly worth five stars.

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Tacky and written for uneducated fools.
I just finished reading this book and i was appauled. The book covers nothing but stripper stories which do nothing more than make the stripper out to be a major whore! I have no opinion on women selling their bodies, stripping, or making movies, but this book would definately make me respect them less than I already do.

Stupid book, geared towards morons.
This book is a joke! It covers different stories told supposedly by women in Exotic positions, such as strippers, prostitutes and porn stars. The stories are very well made up, at least the author has a creative mind. All it really talks about is the hundreds of lovers these women take on, nothing else. ... Read more

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As occasional model for no less than Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927) remains a well-known face of the Pre-Raphealite era. Born into a well-to-do Anglo-Greek family in London, she was greatly admired as one of ‘The Three Graces’, alongside Aglaia Coronio and Maria Zambaco, and photographed several times by Julia Margaret Cameron. Her circle of close friends included, among others, William Michael Rossetti, Lucy Madox-Brown Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, George Frederick Watts, Jane Morris, the Ionides family, and James Abbott MacNeill Whistler.What few people now realise is that behind the enigmatic face lay talent and determination. A gifted artist in her own right, Marie persuaded her father to allow her to study under Ford Madox Brown. She was a prolific painter throughout her long career – a career that she was determined to have in a time when women of her status were actively discouraged from doing so, and that she maintained throughout her marriage. She exhibited regularly at the Dudley from 1870, the Grosvenor from 1877 and at the New Gallery from 1887 until 1908, in addition to numerous exhibitions in the United States between 1875 and 1908.Her husband, William James Stillman (1828-1901), a New Englander by birth, was an early and important figure in the development of American taste for a domestic school of painting. In 1855 he founded and edited The Crayon, the first successful American fine art journal, with John Ruskin’s encouragement and with William Michael Rossetti as his London correspondent.Stillman painted with members of the Hudson River school and was a pioneering and creative photographer. In Europe, following his marriage to Marie Spartali in 1871, he was a war correspondent and Rome correspondent for The Times from 1876 until his retirement in 1898.This is the first biography of Marie Spartali Stillman. Based on full access to her family’s archives, it examines fully her work as well as placing it in to social and personal context. This richly illustrated and comprehensive book catalogues more than 170 works by Marie Spartali Stillman, many previously unknown. As much of her work can only be found in private collections, many of the works illustrated here have not been seen by the public since 1908. ... Read more

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Well detailed story of the marriage of Marie Spartali Stillman and William J. Stillman
This is a well detailed telling of the improbablemarriage between Marie Spartali and William J. Stillman. From my reading of this book, William Stillman was self-absorbed, overly rigid, and willing to take moral stands when they would damage him most.He would turn his back on friends, carry out vendettas against some who had once been friends. As a diplomat, he would abandon his duty as an agent of American government and do what he thought best. In one case, he actually took sides in a conflict, when--as a diplomat--he should have been clearing his actions with the State Department (he did not get along very well with William Seward, the Secretary of State during one of his diplomatic assignments). Stillman dabbled with painting (but never made the commitment needed), photography, diplomacy, and journalism.

The fact that he married a wonderfully talented woman, who was considered quite desirable in her day, is almost a mystery as one reads this book. What did she see in him? Marie's father was opposed to the marriage; Marie's friends were doubtful about the wisdom of her marrying Stillman. Indeed, Stillman sometimes feuded with Marie's friends. Marie Spartali was the daughter of a well off family. She was very talented and did things that women of her time weren't expected to do. She was a fine artist (I am not an expert, but I found her paintings to be pretty impressive). She was a model for some of the finer painters of her era (some of whom were from the pre-Raphaelite ranks).

This work is a good study of how Marie's and William's lives came together, how their life together unfolded, and the many challenges that they faced (some of which were self-induced by William's actions). The portrayal of Marie and William, his children from an earlier marriage and the progeny from their own marriage is richly told. I do not have enough knowledge of the two main characters of this study or the context in which they worked to judge how accurate or insightful this volume is. But for those who are curious about this odd couple and the context within which their lives unfolded, this looks to me to be a good work.


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Lee Miller: 1927: New York. Classically beautiful, she is discovered by Cond Nast and immortalized by Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene, Horst, and other famous photographers. Lee Miller: 1929: Paris. Protg and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography and develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer. Lee Miller: 1939-45: Europe. She becomes a U.S. war correspondent and covers the liberation of Paris. Her photographs of the Dachau concentration camp shock the world. These are but three of the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded here by her son, Antony Penrose, whose years of work on her photographic archives have unearthed a rich selection of her finest work, including portraits of her friends Picasso, Braque, Ernst, luard, and Mir. To these are added many other photos that complement Penrose's highly readable biography of this uniquely talented artist. ... Read more

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a friendly bio
First I want to state that this is a very fine biography, the author (Miller's son) does an admirable job of showing the many different sides and personalities of a multi-gifted woman whose life spanned the tumultuous revolution of women's roles in society. But Lee Miller led a very complicated and somewhat contradictory life and the author manages (artifully, I admit)to avoid probing too deeply into the dark corners that would truly flesh out her life. There are crucial points in the book where a gentle fog of vagueness creeps in where an objective biographer would have strove for clarity, i.e. what exactly was the nature of her relationship with her father? He clearly had a huge role in her life and career (he began photographing her nude at a very early age)but the treatment of their relationship is ginger to say the very least. But issues outside the family are well covered, inside not so much. So to sum up, a good general bio but it is neither too critical nor too in depth on certain issues. ... Read more

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From Rear Window to Friends, city dwellers have been known for a sometimes fervent but typically detached interest in their neighbors. Schwarzkopf breaks the social barriers between apartments by using her camera to facilitate her introduction. She knocks on fellow tenantsí doors in New York, Tokyo, Bologna, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Istanbul. Readers meet the neighbors on their couches and at their kitchen tables, some confident and others timid, and in meeting them see the heart of city life--and striking similarities across Asia, Europe and America. A voyage of discovery to the exotic world next door. ... Read more

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Berlin-based Britta Lumer's large-scale watercolors and charcoal drawings, which employ surprising tools and materials like coal dust, a vacuum cleaner and compressor, communicate a yearning for protection and happiness in addition to an attendant fragility. Upon close inspection, seemingly innocuous houses, forests and portraits become dark and eerie. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Great Book Cover
The only good thing I can say about this book is it has great book cover. That is the only reason I am going to keep it. I was looking for information on Da Vinci's Codex Leicester and was poorly dissappointed with the information given me in this book. If you are into art and know anything about art history this book is not for you. This book is for someone who does not have much knowledge about art history or Da Vinci. Don't get me wrong - I am not being a snob- I just think the title and description are a bit misleading. This book barely has any images or information on the Codex Leicester. If you want a basic history of Da Vinci and how other artist have used his images then it is a good book otherwise I would suggest Leonardo da Vinci The Codex Leicester-Notebook Of A Genius.

festooned with drawings that amplify the texts.
The Codex Leicester is the only Leonardo manuscript owned in the United States and the only one in the world still in private hands. Since Microsoft chairman Bill Gates purchased it in 1994 for $30.8 million, ithas been exhibited in Venice, Milan, Rome,Paris and New York. ... Read more

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The year 2008 has witnessed a major shift in the way people across the world live: For the first time in human history more people live in cities than in rural areas. This triumph of the urban, however, does not entirely represent progress, as the number of people living in urban slums--often under abject conditions--will soon exceed one billion. From 2005 to 2007 Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen documented life in the slums of four different cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Mumbai, India; Caracas, Venezuela; and Jakarta, Indonesia. His lyrical images capture the diversity of personal histories and outlooks found in these dense neighborhoods that, despite commonly held assumptions, are not simply places of poverty and misery. Of course, slum residents continuously face enormous challenges, such as the lack of health care, sanitation and electricity.
Innovatively designed with 20 double gatefold images that unfold to configure the four walls of each individual's home, The Places We Live tells the story of the denizens within with unusual humanity. Through its inventive design and experiential approach, The Places We Live brings the modern-day Dickensian reality of these individuals into sharp focus.
This volume includes an introduction by American author and journalist Philip Gourevitch, editor of The Paris Review and author of Standard Operating Procedure and We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda. An accompanying exhibition will open at the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo in the summer of 2008, and then tour worldwide.
A member of Magnum Photos, Jonas Bendiksen, born in T0nsberg, Norway in 1977, has received numerous awards, including the 2003 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography and first prize in the Pictures of the Year International Awards. His photographs have appeared in National Geographic, Geo, Newsweek and the Sunday Times Magazine, among other publications. His bestselling first book, Satellites: Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union, was published in 2006 by Aperture. In 2007, the Paris Review received a National Magazine Award for The Places We Live. ... Read more

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heartbreaking and inspiring
The Places We Live is a fascinating and rewarding photo collection. The format is intriguing; each residence is given a four-page spread so the reader can fully capture the environment.I felt the photos contained an incredible honesty at capturing the pride and the pain of these homes.The vignettes between photos only add to the value of the experience. Wonderful stuff.

Powerful
Powerful storytelling! Each story and fold out panoramic picture invites you into a world you can hardly believe exists, and one that is impossible to forget.

A deep look at the world now, in the future
I bought this book after having seen the exhibit, The places we live, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo last summer.The exhibit was so moving that I decided to buy this book in hopes that it would remind me about how others in the world live.This book does a good job of bringing the exhibit to your home.The pictures and peoples' excerpts are stirring.Though the photographer, Jonas Bendiksen, has photographed to bring the world to the people in the name of art, be ready to be moved by what and how he's chosen to photograph.

Form helps function, words add intrigue...
Each shanty is unfolded in panoptic four-page form (each page a wall of the room); the magic of the layout is in the incongruous edges of the sub-images, which collectively force the reader to interpolate and extrapolate the space between an artificially objective environment. The effect is furthered by the many dead-pan poses of the inhabitants, no doubt dressed their best, whose proud prose accompanies the visuals and forces the reader to think long and hard about the kind of empathy he should award. ... Read more

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Including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, this first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists by Giovan Pietro Bellori will be a fundamental source of seventeenth-century Italian art and artistic theory. With detailed descriptions of extant and lost works of art, the importance of Bellori's Lives of the Artists lies in the scrupulous documentation of the artists (many of whom he knew personally) which includes detailed descriptions of their works as well as his exposition of the classic theory of art. ... Read more