- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Bulfinch Press UK (May 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0821223887
- ISBN-13: 978-0821223888
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #645,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Style is substance in Watson's photography--the style of fashion, faux crime, hypersex, and celebrity. There is a slightly jagged edge to his take on the world, but it is an edge safely dulled by a carefully cultivated aestheticism that makes the pictures go down easy. That said, Watson is undeniably a powerful magazine photographer whose darkly beautiful images (reproduced herein by Agfa's new CristalRaser technology) glisten with seductively described surfaces. His subjects range from travel photos of Marrakesh to celebrity portraits to fashion fiction (in a lengthy "Malcolm X Fashion Story"). Interspersed--and perhaps constituting the book's central thread--are strange object-portraits of Moroccan fetishes and other, more contemporary fetish objects. The crazy quilt of typefaces used for the captions and mercifully short text might be seen as avant-garde, or more cynically as the computer work of a designer with multiple personality disorder--as style as substance, in any case. Gretchen Garner
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Published to great fanfare in 1994, the original $75 edition of Cyclops has since become a coveted item in the collector's market. Now this astonishing collection of photographs--which range from Tupac Shakur posing with a pistol to a goat's-foot fetish in Marrakesh--is at last available in a small-edition format. "Albert Watson is surely one of this century's foremost photographers."--Entertainment Weekly. 246 quadratone photos.
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Engrossing.,
By Kat Rahmat (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cyclops (Hardcover)
When I first saw the book, I was transfixed. I must have spent quite a number of hours going through the pages, standing up, the world dissolving around me. My particular favorite is one picture of Gary Oldman lying in a coffin. It captured him perfectly. I don't know much about photography, but the beauty of his works is that it can be understood and loved by anyone - there is a human association within every shot. For a while I was reluctant to buy it - the price was a bit too much for me, but I kept on returning to the bookstore to see it, taking a half an hour bus ride each time at the other side of the city. I grew restless when I didn't take the ritual visit. Eventually I did get it - and I finally feel complete. He captured perfection.
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Impressive value,
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This review is from: Cyclops (Hardcover)
Not much to pay for a book that is this outstanding. The photographs themselves are really beautifully reproduced, very high quality printing supporting how good the photos themselves are. Fascinating layout also. Great photos. This is one of those books that you keep going back to and still enjoy. You will be happy that you got this book.
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Ultimate Black & White Images,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cyclops (Hardcover)
Albert Watson's images in this book are quite simply some of the best images of Black & White photography in any book! They are technically perfect and arrestingly beautiful. His images are powerful, moving, creative, and always well composed. Furthermore, the printing in this book is one of the best I've ever seen.If you appriciate masterful black & white images you would probably be happy with this book even if you had paid 5 times what this costs! This book is truly a must-have for anyone who appriciates great photography
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