- Hardcover: 264 pages
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (Sep 22 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0836232771
- ISBN-13: 978-0836232776
- Product Dimensions: 32.8 x 28.5 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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- #48 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( G-I ) > Geddes, Anne
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Sleeping angels. Flower fairies. Woodland nymphs and watermelon seeds. Anne Geddes's magical world is populated by hundreds of beautiful, chubby babies and gorgeous children dressed as peapods, pansies, peonies, and pearls. Geddes fans will be thrilled by Until Now, a lush, coffee-table-sized, 10-year retrospective of Geddes's work, including 1991's crowd-pleasing "Cabbage Kids," featured on calendars and coffee mugs everywhere, as well as many previously uncollected shots from Geddes's New Zealand studio.
It's not all costumes, though--the 1997 portrait of Caleb, 3 weeks old, is a beautiful, unretouched close-up of the sweetly sleeping newborn, belly-button still poking out and skin peeling. A portrait only a mother could love? Hardly. Caleb's perfect little sleeping face would evoke maternal feelings from a stone. Particularly fun and often touching are Geddes's notes at the back of the book. For example, of "Rebecca," she writes, "How do you get a 14-month-old to sit still? Show her the jelly bean, and then put it down her trousers." The resulting photograph is of a lovely, mop-headed, tummy-grabbing toddler peering intently at her own navel. Incorporating both rich color and black-and-white photographs, Until Now will delight parents, grandparents, and baby-lovers of all sizes. --Rebecca A. Staffel --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A retrospective of ten years of the work of photographer Anne Geddes. It features all her best-known images, together with photographs of babies, which are her speciality. The photographs take pride of place, with thumbnail text at the end giving details about their subjects.
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I have a deep love and respect for children - I am a photographer, this is what I do. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Delightful,
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This review is from: Until Now (Hardcover)
Anne Geddes has presented us with a marvel, a book that speaks volumes but has no words. Page after page the reader is introduced to babies, beautiful, huggable babies. Page after page the reader can enjoy the greatest of miracles and Ann Geddes babies are truly delightful and the reminder that miracles happen every day.Beverly J Scott author of Righteous Revenge
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a feast for photographers,
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This review is from: Until Now Journal (Hardcover)
This book not only gives you the "typical" Anne Gedde's subject but the wonderment of capturing a newborn. I love leafing through the pages and seeing the inspiration as a photographer the memories you could capture. I'm not looking for the babies in the cabbage patch but more the human contact with parent and newborn. This truly is inspirational and I give kudos to Anne for capturing the stirring emotions that so many photographers strive to give their clients.Shame on the person who thinks this is a type of newborn porn. Innocence is lost in your eyes for sure.
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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No wonder we're over a six billion and rapidly expanding.:P,
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This review is from: Until Now (Hardcover)
I call it "maternal porn". Not the usual kind of "porn" or even "kiddie porn", but something that would easily manipulate a woman's maternal instincts until she's almost feral. This stuff seems to be designed to make a woman ache like an untamed animal to feel a baby pushing through her birth canal and its toothless maw kneading at her nipple. But childbirth is originally for adding to the population, not just exciting a woman's most primal urges. So this kind of exploitation can be almost frightening in a whole new light.So such books only objectify babies into trophies for women to covet after - and it's already long after the womenkind decided not to be labelled just as something that makes babies anymore. No wonder, Freud would have a field day!
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