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Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript

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With the photos by Barry Feinstein and the poems by Bob Dylan laid away to age like wine, now is a fine time to crack open this book with a foreward by Luc Sante and an introduction by Billy Collins, of all people.

The photos are sometimes raw, sometimes dark, sometimes light, always a delight, and Dylan's poems are, as Billy Collins says in the introduction (that you might almost miss; Collins and Sante don't get a mention anywhere) "marked by unexpected bursts of surrealism, lines that seem pulled out of a hat or caught falling from the sky rather than simply written down."

Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric is a coffee table book that you will actually want to sit down with and savor, one you will actually want to read.

I had the pleasure of working for Barry Feinstein in his custom lab in the early 60's and have been waiting for this book ever since. Having previously seen some of these photos and their original meticulous prints, it is a little sad that the publisher did not show the proper respect for Barry's work with their less than careful production. I will, none the less, treasure this book, and recommend it to anyone that enjoys great photography. Barry's work is sometimes subtle, sometimes blunt, but always shares a unique viewpoint. I know I will spend a lot of time with this book. (Dylan doesn't need comment from me.)

Jim Dickson

It is difficult to describe this: the pictures and the words combine to a hypnotic effect. It's like a materialized experience of listening to some of the "earlier" songs.

i thought this was one of the coolest things i have ever seen. but it's dylan, enough said!