Blunt [Hardcover]

Nigel Parry (Author), Tom Ford (Introduction), Roger Rosenblatt (Foreword), Pentagram (Designer)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2006

His newest project, Blunt, is a deluxe volume with over 145 iconic images, each in Parry’s signature style: intimate, honest, and wholly original. His photographs feature the best at their best, including Ewan McGregor, Russell Crowe, Jimmy Fallon, Renée Zellweger, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Brad Pitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Matt LeBlanc, Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson, Meg Ryan, Regis Philbin, Christina Applegate, Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Gael García Bernal, Cate Blanchett, Michael Caine, Hayden Christensen, Ellen DeGeneres, Edie Falco, Susan Sarandon, Ralph Fiennes, Keira Knightley, Nathan Lane, Denis Leary, Ray Liotta, Liam Neeson, Cynthia Nixon, Ed Harris, Joaquin Phoenix, Mario Van Peebles, Dennis Quaid, Christopher Walken, Ed Burns, Ben Stiller, Kiefer Sutherland, Stanley Tucci, Ike Turner, Wesley Snipes, Mark Wahlberg, Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Willis, Javier Bardem, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ahmed Chalabi, Hillary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, JK Rowling, Paul Theroux, Graydon Carter, George Lucas, Lennox Lewis, Shaquille O’Neal, Twyla Tharp, Harvey Weinstein, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Shania Twain, 50 Cent, Mos Def, Fat Joe, and Ja Rule.

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About the Author

When a premiere magazine runs a story about a high-profile celebrity, there is only one photographer they call: Nigel Parry. His brilliant lens has captured the most powerful politicos, the most famous celebrities, and the most beautiful beautiful people of our day. His in-your-face style and exacting precision yields portraits like one has never seen.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 180 pages
• Publisher: powerHouse Books (October 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576873269
• ISBN-13: 978-1576873267
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 1 x 14.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #605,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful B&W portrait photography, October 14, 2010

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Brian (Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Blunt (Hardcover)

The portraits are moving, every last one. I bought it as a teaching resource for young portrait artists. The only other books I've found of this caliber are Martin Schoeller's "Close Up" and the teNeues "one2one" collection. Again, fantastic, powerful portraits in black and white. Outstanding quality. A great buy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Images, Plenty to Look at, Inspiring, December 13, 2007

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Justin Jones (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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I don't know anything about Nigel's background and have never met the guy (hopefully I will one day)....but just by looking through the images in the book it's easy to assume he's great to work with and is the kind of guy who can get even the hardest people to soften up, the most powerful to submit, and the average looking to display amazing beauty.

And the great equipment he uses is worthy of his talent. The images are tack sharp (just look at the detail on Sean Connery's photo). Through his lens Nigel gets the viewer face-to-face with some of the most powerful and famous people in the world, subjects who are rarely seen in such a tight and up-close point of view. However he doesn't shoot everything this way so it's not at all repetitive going through the pages.

I just got his book, Sharp, which so far I really like but not nearly as much as Blunt. This book is amazing and as a photographer myself I find so much inspiration looking through his images that I can't decide whether to turn to the next page or pick up my camera. Nice work, Nigel...keep it up!

5.0 out of 5 stars Love the portratis, November 23, 2011

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Pete Erickson (Bend, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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Nigel Parry's portraits are my favorites. I do portraits all day long as a newspaper photographer and his work has always inspired me to reach higher. I used to always walk into the bookstore and flip through his other book "Sharp" and get inspired to do my own pictures my own way and was sad when someone bought it and took it away. The $60 was too steep for a simple news photographer to spend. Amazon, luckily sells 'em cheap. I love this book because his genius for portraits shows through in the smallest ways. The Paul Wolfowitz portrait, for example, shooting his reflection pushing the door that says push. Mr. Wolfowitz was one of the people pushing hardest for war in Iraq and getting him in a reflection with "Push" in the frame works perfectly for a story about what he was thinking at the time. The lightbulb with Ray Liotta is another great portrait. The way it lights his eye with the deep black all around is exactly the creepy I would expect from Mr. Liotta's acting. I thumb through this book every day and love it for the inspiration. Simple lighting, deep meaning.