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Monica Bellucci (Book Review)
Monica Bellucci - The Book
Monica Bellucci
- Typical online price: $40
- Photographer: Various (33 prestigious fashion contributors)
- Cover: 13×10 hardcover with dust jacket
- Content: 244 pages (150 full-page and double-page photographs)
- Publisher: Rizzoli, 2010
Monica Bellucci is a jaw-droppingly beautiful woman. She’s so beautiful that she can fill several hundred pages with magnificent images of herself without even beginning to bore me. Quite the opposite – you can get lost for days just appreciating the perfect curve of her…
What was I saying? Oh, right.
This is a highly unusual photo book because every page captures Monica Bellucci, alone, photographed over several decades by the A-list of fashion photography. We’re talking Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Bruce Weber, Peter Lindbergh, Ellen von Unwerth, among others. Many of the images came from shoots for high fashion players such as Vogue Italia, Cartier, and Dolce & Gabbana.
Monica Bellucci by Bruce Weber
The Monograph by Édouard Boubat
The Monograph
- Typical online price: $50
- Photographer: Édouard Boubat
- Cover: 12×12 hardcover with dust jacket
- Content: 368 pages (250+ photographs, mostly 10×7)
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2004
Paris, 1948
The amount of wear on my copy tells you this is one of my favorite books. I’m a photojournalist who wishes he could shoot in black and white and tell human stories all the time. Édouard Boubat was a master who honed his craft the hard way – by showing up every day and shooting regularly from the late 1940s right up until his death in 1999. The breadth of his portfolio is impressive.
Country by Jasper Conran (Book Review)
Country by Jasper Conran
Country
- Typical online price: $43
- Writer: Jasper Conran
- Photographer: Andrew Montgomery
- Cover: 13×10 hardcover with dust jacket
- Content: 304 pages (300+ photographs big and small)
- Publisher: Conran Octopus
Country is Jasper Conran’s effort to capture all the native textures, sights, smells, sounds, and faces of the English countryside in a single expansive edition. The pages are bursting with photographs of castles in the mist, shepherds with their flocks, knee-high flowerfields, dainty teacups, bustling pubs, and enthusiastic hunting dogs.
