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Anne Geddes Sunflowers : Birthdays & Anniversaries

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I purchased this Birthday and Anniversary book with the intention of giving it to my mother-in-law whose current book is falling apart. The dimensions of the book as listed on the information page of the website are, in inches: 0.63 x 8.22 x 6.60. This is NOT even close to the actual dimensions, which are, in inches: 0.5 x 3 13/16 x 3 4/16. This book was to be for my 83-year-old mother-in-law, who has fairly good eyesight, but I don't think even I at 48, would be able to write names small enough to be entered on the pages, let alone able to read them when needed. I was VERY disappointed with this product and consequently am still on my "hunt" for a Birthday book for my mother-in-law.

Geddes' manages to degrade and isolate her subjects. Her prehistoric "cutsie" images, though appealing to a kitsch market, do not allow for a social comment to transcend the visual confines of her exploitive commercial "photography". In some senses, she could be seen as a radical post-modernist artist, as she abstracts the subject from social normality and removes any dignity from the development of the child, if that was her so calling in contemporary art. Yet it is frightening to be in an age where people will grasp such superficially degrading images. Geddes has made a personal fortune off photographing babies, subjects usually positioned in inhumane circumstances (ie: babies in flowerpots or dipped in custard), which removes human dignity and allows us to question Geddes moral intent.