Blood Sweat and Tears Collector's edition [Deluxe Edition] [Hardcover]

Bruce Weber (Photographer)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 3832790993 | ISBN-13: 978-3832790998 | Publication Date: November 15, 2005 | Edition: Collectors

(excerpted from catalog copy) ?No book is about one thing.? By Bruce Weber At first I thought strictly about a book of photographs on fashion. As I worked on it, I thought more and more about something my friend the late, great fashion designer Gianni Versace once said, in giving me advice before an assignment, ?Call me des mode, but give me beauty.? And with these inspired words I wanted to make a record of how I journeyed out into the world and recorded what most people call fashion. These photographs were not just about the shape of clothes, but also how one sees fashion in nature, architecture, and in the human spirit. When I began photographing, I was at Life Magazine borrowing some equipment. I ran into a bunch of other photographers in the camera department. One photographer asked, ?what kind of photos are you doing for the magazine?? I replied, ?I am going to do some pictures of girls in bathing suits.? They all burst out laughing at me, and said, ?that doesn?t sound too serious..."

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A celebration of fashion in all of its forms, ...highlights the photographers wit and imagination with pictures and journal entries. -- Harper's Bazaar, December 2005

A look at some of the season’s best: An evolutionary tale of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of fashion photography. -- Interview Magazine, December 2005

Blood Sweat and Tears is a stunning coffee-table tome of Bruce Weber’s most brilliant observations of fashion. -- Gotham Magazine, January 2006

Fashion is abundant in a top crop of new photography books. ...an opus spanning 30 years of Bruce Weber’s career. -- VOGUE, December 2005

Linda Evangelista is among the beautiful people filling the pages of this collection, covering 30 years of Weber’s fashion photography -- The New York Times Book Review, January 2006 --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: teNeues; Collectors edition (November 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3832790993
• ISBN-13: 978-3832790998
• Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 11.7 x 3.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,860,481 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's About Fashion!!!, November 21, 2005

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Bill H "Bill" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Sweat and Tears (Hardcover)

It's fairly obvious the two previous reviewers didn't quite get that this book is about the FASHION photographer Bruce Weber, not the MALE NUDE photographer Bruce Weber. Like Mapplethorpe, Weber's works extend far beyond the male nude. Unfortunately, that is all he's currently known for, however. Well, this book will change that, for sure! Weber is truly one of the greatest fashion photogs on the scene today. His work can easily be placed with the greats like Scavullo, Newton, and Meisel. This book is a gloriously beautiful retrospective of Weber's fashion work, as well as a look at Weber's own personal journey into the world of fashion and beauty. Anyone who loves fashion photography will love this book. I'm giving it to all my friends for holiday gifts! A must buy!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Weber fashion primer, December 11, 2005

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mkb (new york, new york USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Sweat and Tears (Hardcover)

"Blood, Sweat and Tears" is an essential monograph. Impressive in it's sheer heft but magnificent for Bruce Weber's beautiful fashion imagery and cultural significance for a quarter century.

Bruce Weber's fashion photography career is perhaps one of the most significant and prolific in the history of the genre. His unique vision, style, casting, vitality, whimsy and humor have provided a refreshing interpretation of fashion and commercial photography for a quarter century. "Blood, Sweat and Tears" offers a wonderful sampling of many of his memorable stories and iconographic images. One could argue that almost everything Weber has shot including male nudes, dogs, still life, portraits... are all fashion imagery. Weber himself has been an enormously influential architect of our perception of photography in the market place and brought what might have seemed distant and iconographic imagery (or art) into the mainstream. The Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren campaigns of the 80's and 90's were seminal and provided defining imagery for the era. The Abercrombie & Fitch campaigns are perhaps the natural evolution both photographically and culturally - do you see any similarities between the catalogs and shots/antics/sexuality of Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan?

I know I'm not alone in being bemused by critics that whine about this book being too focused on Weber's fashion career (and not enough male nudes) when the book is specifically titled as such! To some of Weber's fans, iconic male (and female) nudes are his most important work - and he has served them well with numerous beautiful books and exhibitions. But will he be best remembered as a force in art photography with a classical sensibility to the human form - at the end of the C20th!? Or will his legacy will be as one of the greatest commercial fashion photographer in history?

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Truth be told: pretty lame, December 11, 2005

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Close reader (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Sweat and Tears (Hardcover)

The paper quality is poor, and the colors are washed out and not at all crisp. If you already own "Men without Ties," you can definitely skip this book.