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What are young photographers up to at the outset of the twenty-first century? How do they see the world? How much do they respect, build on or reject tradition? Are they busy in the darkroom or in the computer lab--or both? reGeneration sets out to discover answers to these intriguing questions, previewing the work of 50 photographers who may well emerge as some of the finest of their generation. This remarkable book, the broadest and most enterprising survey of its kind, showcases the creativity, ingenuity and inspiration of these up-and-coming artists in over 200 superb images. Curators at the world-renowned Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne, France, selected the featured photographers from hundreds of candidates submitted by more than 60 of the world's top photography schools. The panel's choice was made with one key question in mind: are these images likely to be known in 20 years' time? The results show that, as the new century builds momentum, the art of photography is alive and well, and photographers of extraordinary talent are already making their mark.
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Superb selection of groundbreaking photographers.......2007-06-14
The "Regeneration" project is much more than a just a book. It was commissioned to Musée de l'Elysée by the Aperture Foundation as a way to discover the most promising young photographers around the world. It entails a 3-year travelling exhibition across the five continents which guarantees a strong visibility of the selected artists. I totally disagree with other reviewers' opinion that the artists are not "cutting-edge" or "original" in their work. In fact, "fresh fishes" need to be aware of the art history and of the "big contemporary fishes" to be able to produce something worthwhile, something of their own.
We have selected several of these artists in order to represent them. Our favourite works belong to amazing artists such as Bianca Brunner, Leo Fabrizio, Ted Partin, Johann Ryno de Wet and Pétur Thomsen. If you want to know what's on today and what will be in the future, buy this book!
a narrow view.......2006-06-21
this really is, as the other reviewer wrote, a one-sided view. i would browse this book in a store and if it really strikes you then go get jeff wall, philip lorca dicorcia, or gregory crewdson and see some much better work.
An Overview of Student Work.......2006-05-02
It is difficult to find any single place with significant collections of exciting new photography and for that reason, the premise of this book attracted me. It consists of "mini portfolios" from 50 "unknown" photographers, selected from art schools around the world. Published by Aperture, the quality of reproduction is high, it is affordably priced and the book does a nice job of presenting the work.
Some of the work is very, very good. In particular, I enjoyed Mauren Brodbeck's urban landscapes, where she digitally manipulates the images to emphasize the space occupied by a building. Another photographer to watch is Idris Khan, who presents composited, appropriated imagery of post cards from the Tate, spherical gas tank photos by the Bechers and from his own travels.
There is clearly more mileage to get from this kind of conceptual approach and the book would have benefited with a focus in this direction. Other people of note were Chih-Chien Wang, who focuses on his first hand experience with immigration through a distinctive style and Eva Lauterlein, who digitally manipulates portraiture to change her subject's identity.
However, other than the trend in digital and conceptual photography, you won't find many new, groundbreaking trends in this book. Part of the trouble is using the art schools as a filter to find new work. Students tend to be strongly influenced by the work of others -- they have not had a chance to develop their own artistic identity. And art schools all tend to teach the same things. For that reason, many of the works have a derivative "I've seen that before" look to them.
Throughout this book, you see the echoes of Cindy Sherman, Alec Soth, Stephen Shore, and many others of that generation whose influence is strong with this generation. Of course, the best way to learn is to imitate others who have gone before and as an artist, you want to have that knowledge in your repertoire of understanding, if only to explore and break those rules later. To me, this book shows just how difficult it is to find your own voice.
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The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
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This is a collection of Futurist and metaphysical works including some of De Chirico's most interesting pieces. This is the official guide to the London museum of one of the most important collections of Italian 20th century art outside Italy.
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2005 Calendar Review.......2005-12-31
I am going to purchase the 2006 calendar (I can't believe I didn't get one for Christmas!). So, this review is based on the 2005 calendar. Wonderful, just wonderful. If you are interested in intelligent humor, sometimes too intelligent (honey, can you explain this cartoon to me?!), then buy this calendar. I looked forward to sitting down in my humble cube every morning and tearing off the next page in my calendar before I did any work. It's just the ideal way to start your day!
New Yorker everyday.......2005-11-15
Obviously I haven't gone through the cartoons because it's not 2007 yet. So this is review on the calendar without flipping through the pages.
It's entirely black and white (no colours), blank on the reverse side. Cartoon takes up the entire page, with the date stuffed to the bottom right corner. Again, black and white, so no colour differentiation. Weekend is one page. Don't be mislead by the page count. There are only ~310 printed pages.
The leg takes a bit of force to pry open.
Have a good chuckle every day. Looks pretty classy.
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In this follow-up to his best-selling The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family, religion journalist Mark Pinsky explores the role that the animated features of The Walt Disney Company have played in the moral and spiritual development of generations of children. Pinsky explores the religious, moral, and theological themes in 31 of the most popular Disney films, including Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and the Lion King, and discovers what he calls the Disney Gospel: faith that good will prevail, trust in yourself and your friends, and a little bit of something magical. Pinsky also looks at recent Disney developments, including the 1990s boycott of Disney by the Southern Baptist Convention, the impact of the theme parks on American culture, and the role that CEO Michael Eisner has played in the resurgence of the company since the mid-1980s.
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Lazy Research.......2006-11-10
It sounds like a good premise if a bit of a tall order, examine Disney's animated features for the role that their themes have played in the moral and spiritual development of generations of children. The idea being that these themes originated in the minds of Walt Disney and his successors, who were not entirely motivated by a bottom line, but had certain political and social agendas to advance.
Unfortunately, Mark I. Pinsky, the religion reporter for The Orlando Sentinel, conducts his analysis of the Disney animation world like a reporter running late for a press run deadline. Mostly this consists of a cursory viewing of 31 Disney films, plucking out a few nuggets of content that support his theme, and creating short chapters speculating on the symbolism within each film.
At the end is a non-philosophical analysis of the 1990's boycott by the Southern Baptist Contention.
Shortly into the book it becomes obvious that Pinsky has made little if any attempt to examine the source material for each film, attributing each relevant element to Disney rather than to the source material from which each screenplay was adapted.
This becomes especially glaring when a reader is familiar with the source material. A more useful approach would have been to compare and contrast the original material with its adaptation; identifying which elements Disney elected to keep, to cut, and to alter. It is likely that what was excluded is just as important as what was included in understanding the motivational forces at work within the Disney empire.
For example, the animated film "Alice in Wonderland" (1951) was more inspired by than adapted from the original Lewis Carroll story. Little more than title, some character names, and the basic premise (little heroine dreaming about going down a rabbit hole into a strange wonderland) was utilized by the Disney movie. That most viewer's believe it was a closer adaptation stems from the use of John Tenniel's original prints as inspiration for the character sketches.
Pinsky details several scenes in the film that were not even part of Carroll's story, then states: "For all the complaints about Disney's tinkering with and sanding down the edges of fairy tales, "Alice in Wonderland" demonstrates the pitfalls of fidelity to the original, of illustrating a classic story rather than transforming it and making it your own". As anyone even vaguely familiar with the book and the film know, on this point Pinsky is totally incorrect. Only someone unfamiliar with Carroll's original could have reached such a faulty conclusion. The failure (be it error or laziness) to do basic research in this case should set off reader alarm bells regarding most of the other assertions Pinsky makes in this book. No doubt some are valid but readers would do well to not accept any of Pinsky's points at face value.
Which doesn't mean that Pinsky's ideas are totally useless. They introduce fresh ways to examine many elements within Disney's features and might actually provide some useful insights to anyone motivated to aggressively explore his cursory assertions.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
Pure tripe.......2006-04-28
The editorial review of this book is spot on. As a long time lover of Disney, I picked up this book at the library, interested in seeing something more akin to the history of the studio or an analysis on animation as an ever-evolving artform. Instead I found a book written by an author who can't decide to praise Disney or bash it. In every entry, he practically gives away the plot of each movie by summarization. He then finishes off with a hyperbolic overanalyzation of the "message" of the movie. It would be wrong to call this book "propaganda" because he flip flops between love and hate. While it IS great that he shows love for Disney's accomplishments in many movies, including the underrated The Fox and the Hound, the author has a habit for picking out "messages" and "themes" that nobody in their right mind would honestly believe. Okay, it's easy to see how The Fox and the Hound is a parable about civil rights and the issues of color, just as it's easy to see how The Lion King is either an adaptation of King Lear or a ripoff of Kimba, but that simply wasn't the point of the movie. In other places, the author gets downright looney. Most viewers saw Atlantis: The Lost Empire as either a straightfoward, gung ho action adventure movie or a seering disappointment. The movie according to the book? Atlantis was an attack on the ideas of "venture capitalism", saying that western ideas of progression are poorly disguised evil imperialism. More importanly, with the movie, Eisner is deliberately attacking Walt's ideals. "Walt must be spinning in his grave" the author writes. So I guess Rourke isn't the villain and what he's doing is right? In The Emperor's New Groove, the author doesn't enjoy the movie simply for its outrageous humor but takes a look at the villain Yzma and quips "once again Disney shows its misogynistic hatred of old and ugly females." It was at that point that I closed the book and put it back on the shelf. I would like to close by noting that the earlier movies, with their "passive" princesses and dead parents, weren't all bad and that we don't always need to have fiery, headstrong types. Furthermore, by writing everything in a religious light, the author makes Disney sound like a big religion itself, with sole ownership on movies with "moral messages", instead of just the simple entertainment giant that it is.
Couldn't put it down, BUT..........2005-07-16
As an avid Disney fan, this book catered to my interests. It was written well, and the writer brought up some interesting positive themes in Disney movies both old and new. However, he was a bit too liberal for my tastes...I really don't think a four-year-old is going to get the idea that the crows in Dumbo are perpetuating stereotypes about African-Americans. There were a few such examples in the book that just seemed like a bit too much...but all in all, it was worth reading!
Textbook Writing.......2005-07-04
I found this book to be boring and reminded me of reading a text book in college. Big disappointment.
Discussing ideological themes in thirty-one Disney films .......2005-01-11
Religion journalist Mark Pinsky presents The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust, a sober exploration of the role that the animated features of the Walt Disney Country have carried out in the spiritual, emotional, and ethical development of generations of young adults. Discussing ideological themes in thirty-one of the most popular Disney films including "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Lion King", The Gospel According to Disney also reaches beyond the impact of the morality plays on the big screen to such issues as the postive and negative contributions that theme parks have on American culture, why the Southern Baptist Convention chose to boycott Disney in the 1990's and the repercussions of that movement, and much more. An astutely researched and written exploration of the interesection between spirituality and one company's domain of popular entertainment.
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What would mickey do?(Book Review): An article from: Commonweal
Laura Sheahen
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Title: What would mickey do?(Book Review)
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For the first time, the complete story of Elvis Presley's recording career is told in this remarkable book.With exclusive access to the RCA vaults, producer Ernst Jorgensen brings to intimate life every moment that Elvis spent in the studio--from the spontaneous joy of his early sessions to the intensely creative periods of his later career.At once the definitive recording session guide and a compellingly readable narrative, this is the ultimate companion to the singer and his songs. AUTHORBIO: Ernst Jorgensen produced many RCA Elvis box sets, for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award.He lives in Denmark.
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Essential Elvis.......2007-05-27
Great book. Honest - not sleazy, not pandering. The sessions are fascinating, the studio people and musicians that mattered get their dues and the hard slog behind making it all sound so good, (as well as the causes behind the otherwise inexplicable trash) becomes clear. This one's for the music.
Simply the best book about the music of Elvis Presley.......2005-12-21
LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS and CARELESS LOVE by Peter Guralnick are the books about Elvis Presley's personal life and they really are the reference concerning the man.
A LIFE IN MUSIC is, for the fans and anybody interested in the music business, the reference concerning Elvis Presley's music.
It's all about his records, Colonel Parker's strategies, his attitude in the recording studio, etc...
There is NO OTHER BOOK as good as this one concerning Elvis's music. Everything is here, year by year: record sales, chart positions, recording sessions dates and locations. And it's only a part of it.
Ernst Joegersen, the author, is the man who resurrected Elvis's catalogue at BMG/RCA (now SONY) from the early 90's until now. He has gathered information concerning all this since 1973 and now he is the main authority about Elvis's music.
If you like Elvis and his music, this book is an amazing source of information.
Essential.......2005-07-28
If you are interested in his studio recordings and how they were put together this book takes you through every session. A great journey. Read the book as you listen to the music!
FUNDAMENTAL y necesario desde hace tiempo. Una joya........2004-06-30
Este libro es fundamental para conocer los detalles dentro del estudio. Paralelamente a los datos referidos a músicos que intervienen en cada uno de los temas, referencias a los compositores, datos muy particulares sobre los posibles problemas que tenían los compositores, Elvis con algunos temas en particular, o Scotty o Bill, los Jordanaires, quien fuese, las diferentes tomas ... o la interferencia del Coronel, que lo único que le importaba eran las cuestiones referidas a fechas, contrato, derechos de publicación de los temas, etc. En este libro se constatan todas las sesiones cronologicamente con sus datos técnicos y no técnicos, comentarios objetivos de lo que allí estaba pasando, fotos muy interesantes. Es un auténtico disfrute para cualquier fan de Elvis, porque acompañado de los discos que comenta entiendes y conoces más produndamente a Elvis, el porqué de los temas, porque unos u otros, un montón de cosas. Se refiere estrictamente a la música y no cuenta chorradas subjetivas. Éste libro junto a los dos de Peter Guralnik los podría comparar al libro sobre Frank Sinatra de Will Friedwald "Frank Sinatra the Song is you", en cuanto a rigor y lo buenos que son. Lo único que hecho de menos es que solo está la referencia de una canción a el disco en el que fué editado por primera vez, me hubiera gustado que se hubieran hecho referencias a otros discos en los que también se hubiera includido el tema en cuestión. Pero bueno, esto es algo muy subjetivo y no afecta en absoluto a mi crítica sobre el libro. Repito: ESENCIAL.
Remembering 'The King'.......2004-04-20
This is a very informative references book about Elvis. I was wanting to find a good book on Elvis Presley and this was the best one that I saw. I can tell that it was a book of passion for the people who worked on it.
There are not as many pictures as I would have liked ( I love picture books. ) However, it is very interesting and one of the better materials I have found about the man.
The writers are also not afraid of showing Elvis's downward spiral during the last few years of his life.
Like Buddy Holly and John Lennon. A lot of people still believe that Elvis left this Earth too soon.
But the good thing though is that we still have his music and memories. That still make people happy even to day and I hope they still will. In the future.
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How To Gamble At The Casinos Without Getting Plucked Like A Chicken, gives expert advice on Casino Gambling in a light-hearted manner. It advises readers on which games give them the best possibilities and how to play them correctly.
It covers all major casino games: Blackjack, Video Poker, Craps, Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Slot Machines, Keno, Big Six Wheel, Roulette, Sports Book, Caribbean Stud Poker, Three Card Poker, Let it Ride, War and miscellaneous promotional games. It contains explanations of mathematical percentages, Gambler's Ruin, Money Management and Gambling Systems.
Not only does this book give clear, concise advice on the best games to play and how to play them, it unequivocally points out which games should be avoided so you don't get plucked like a chicken.
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Entertaining and Fun with Good Information.......2007-03-07
Many gambling books are dull reads, even if they give the best possible analyses of the games and how to play them intelligently, so it is great to read a book that is enjoyable and, at the same time, informative. This book gets high grades in those areas. Definitely worth reading.
Frank Scoblete: author of Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution!
A view point worthy to read.......2007-01-13
I liked the way the author wrote. It was an easy read. The video poker section maybe outdated by now because casinos change machines so often.
You Really Should Read This Book.......2006-05-24
If you are only going to read one book on gambling, this is the one you should read. It covers just about every casino game of any consequence and gives you the essential information about each game with a minimum of blather.
This book doesn't promise to make you rich, but it sure can keep you from looking like an idiot. The best part is that it is a pleasant read. It makes the details easy enough to understand so that you can become a competent gambler without having to have a PhD in mathematics.
Even if you don't go to casinos to gamble, this book explains the factors that make it possible to win more often than you lose - for all kinds of games. That's why you really should read this book.
Great Book ! - The Real Starting Point.......2006-05-14
For everyone who isn't an expert gambler, this is the book to start with. It gives you straight information on how to gamble well, how well you can really expect to do if you do it right and what is just wishful thinking.
This is not a get-rich-quick snake oil book. It really does explain how to gamble like an expert and how to achieve the best possible results by playing the games that you stand the best chances at. The best advice is on avoiding sucker games and sticking to the best bets. There is also some really amusing material about BS books that promise the impossible.
Even if you think you are already a pretty knowledgeable gambler, this little book can probably teach you a thing or two that will make you a better player. Beneath the humorous title is a really useful book.
> More Fun When You Win!.......2006-03-21
This is a great book! I read it before my last trip to Las Vegas and it really helped me. Rather than wasting my time and money on sucker games, I followed the advice and played the games that gave me the best odds. Not only did I come out ahead for the trip, but the casino comped my room!
I find that going gambling is a lot more fun when you win. This book can really improve your chances. It sure has helped me.
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The Classic Serial On Television and Radio
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The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama 60 years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of color, and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This book traces these developments and analzes the genre's response to social, economic, technical, and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognize today. The book contains considerable interview material with performers and media professionals.
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- Retail Desire: Design Display and Visual Merchandising
- Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries
- Ron Mueck: Catalogue Raisonne
- Searching for the Perfect Beat: Flyer Designs of the American Rave Scene
- Shanghai Girl Gets All Dressed Up
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- Spectrum 8: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
- Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer
- Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age
- The Art of Chesley Bonestell
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