50 Sad Chairs [Perfect Paperback]

Bill Keaggy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 3, 2008

This is an awesome work by Acrobat / Photographer Bill Keaggy, who witnesses tired and tossed chairs in downtown St. Louis. Each image is a mixed bag of forlorn and funny, a veritable commentary on our culture of consumption (at least as it relates to chairs). Have a look. And you ll soon notice: sad chairs are everywhere.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Blue Q (March 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601671490
• ISBN-13: 978-1601671493
• Product Dimensions: 4 x 3.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,758 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #1 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Photo Essays
  • #11 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > General

More About the Author

Bill Keaggy is a collector, maker and breaker of things. Originally from Ohio, he lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife Diane, and children Liam and Sorena. He likes found objects, photography, sandwiches, smoothies, design, collecting, family, bikes, books, Pinot Noir, people falling down, bowling, horseshoes and teh Intar-Web.

A complete archive of his projects can be found here: http://www.keaggy.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love the Sad Chairs!!, May 17, 2008

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J. Appel "humor man" (Midwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 50 Sad Chairs (Perfect Paperback)

This book is a hilarious and creative follow up to Milk Eggs and Vodka by
Bill Keaggy. His humor in the titles shows his creativity and made me laugh over and over. Artistically I am drawn to many of the images, as well and he really made me look at objects that I would drive by and rarely notice.
Even my kids enjoyed the book. Very Fun!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars humanity in microcosm: a gem of a book, June 29, 2010

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Working Writer Wonders (Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 50 Sad Chairs (Perfect Paperback)

I bought this book more or less by chance but since then have shown it to friends and students and bought it several times for gifts. It's a delightful little book, a perfect gem of its kind. There's beauty: lots of surprisingly lovely compositions (numbers 9 and 23 are among my favorites, but there are many others.) There's pathos. (As Keaggy playfully writes in the book's single page of text, "These are the forsaken chairs, left for dead...they saved us from having to sit on the floor! And how do we repay them? With a grunt, a curse, and a heave-ho to the street.") There's humor, provided mostly by Keaggy's ironic captions. There's story, hidden in and around the chairs. Above all, maybe, there's an awful lot of human life, even though no humans are actually pictured. Our inventive designs, our everyday routines, our cities, our styles, our impatience with things old or worn: our human nature and our culture are all here in microcosm. Highly recommended, both for your own pleasure and for gifts for interestingly quirky friends.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny beyond belief, September 10, 2009

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Rosemary Evetts (denver, colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 50 Sad Chairs (Perfect Paperback)

This book is funny beyond belief! I laughed out loud over and over. "Worst vacation ever" was my absolute favorite photo. The photos are very well done, but it's the captions that really make this book.

He can't possibly be an academic, he's too funny. I'm going to check out his grocery list book now.