A stylish and provocative collection of "stories" by Weber - both photographic narratives and text/photo combinations - timed to coincide with Weber's first retrospective exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery in London - this year's Christmas treat for Bruce's loyal and abundant audience.
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Hand-lettered stories begin and end this thick album, and other writings, typeset, occupy a few other pages, but Weber's captivating photos overwhelm them. Suggesting at times news photography in the brutal manner of Weegee (see Weegee's World, reviewed on p.745) and at times self-conscious studio photography, Weber's usually black-and-white work combines a rough, warts-and-all effect and the firm smoothness of his preferred subjects, lean young men. Weber subscribes to the old saw "In youth is beauty" and makes us appreciate it even when the youths at hand are unshaven and unkempt (that "Branded Youth") or sweaty and grimacing, as in a kinetic suite of images from a wrestling training camp. This munificent collection also features many grungy (and a few glamorous) movie-and pop-star portraits; a color essay on Weber's old rancher-neighbor in Montana; montages of images culled directly from televised criminal trials; travelogues of Vietnam, South Africa, and Mississippi; portraits from a Boy Scout jamboree; and some amusing male nudes and seminudes. Ray Olson
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Bruce Weber's incomparable photographs appear every month in U.S. and international fashion magazines, including features in Vogue and other Conde Nast magazines, and in Rolling Stone and Interview. Exhibitions of his work in New York and in galleries around the world have enjoyed wide popularity. His photographs are represented in the permanent collections of London's Victoria and Albert Museum and in the photography division of the City of Paris.
Author of Bear Pond (Bulfinch, 1990), Bruce Weber (Bulfinch,1991), Gentle Giants (Bulfinch, 1994) and A House is Not a Home (Bulfinch, 1996).
Author of Bear Pond (Bulfinch, 1990), Bruce Weber (Bulfinch,1991), Gentle Giants (Bulfinch, 1994) and A House is Not a Home (Bulfinch, 1996).
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Branded Youth: and Other Stories (Hardcover)
Black & white and a few color plates covering a broad range of material, from hollywood celebs to midwest farmers, from Soweto township to the youth of Vietnam, from a montage of clips from Court TV to Weber's trademark look at the All-American boy. Don't miss this one.
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Bruce Weber the Master,
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This review is from: Branded Youth: and Other Stories (Hardcover)
Having seen the Branded Youth exhibition a few years ago in England, I rushed out to buy this book. There are so many different subjects photographed - it's not one type of photo. Sure, many are portraits, but they are of varied people of groups of people ie. wrestling, boy scouts, celebrities, the "branded youth" boys, so Weber demonstrates his talents in documenting life in today's world.
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A depiction of all youth,
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This review is from: Branded Youth: and Other Stories (Hardcover)
I read the book only after I saw the display first hand at the National Portrait Gallery in London. From the moment I walked in I was captured by each subject and the story that each of their expressions revealed. I think Weber embraced the essence of his topic by depicting all kinds of youth and the gammet of emotions youth provides.
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