A House is Not a Home [Hardcover]

Bruce Weber (Author), Paul Frederick Bowles (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1996

This is an insight into the idiosyncratic flourishes which make a house into a home. Photographer Bruce Weber takes the reader around the world, looking at how creative individuals' homes reflect their own particular personalities. Here are interiors and exteriors, panoramas and details: Siegfried and Roy's tiger-striped (and tiger-filled) Las Vegas suite; Georgia O'Keefe's ghost ranch in New Mexico; Chris Isaak's childhood home in suburban California; the Duchess of Devonshire's stately home in England; Andrew Wyeth's Maine lighthouse retreat; and Weber's own Montana ranch, among others.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press; 1st edition (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821224050
• ISBN-13: 978-0821224052
• Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 10.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,690,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book by Weber but pricey, April 25, 2000

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"bturner69" - See all my reviews

This review is from: A House is Not a Home (Hardcover)

As a photographer who really looks up to and loves the work of Bruce Weber, I know I have a strong bias for anything he does. However, this book is a great look inside Weber's world and is godo with the interviews as well. My only problem is the price, ... there are probably better books for those that really get into Weber photography and are looking to maybe buy just one book, such as the out of print Chop Suey Club, etc., that even cover his work with Abercrombie and Fitch, and are cheaper at the same time. I would only recommend this book for someone who wants to know more than your basics about what Weber is about, and price is not an issue, otherwise go for it!

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars B. Weber revolutionized the meaning of poor images into arts, January 4, 2002

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R. G. V. (Vallejo, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A House is Not a Home (Hardcover)

As with most of Bruce Weber's books, his style is the same from the beginning and had not changed a bit. Though I admire many of his good works (and in fact had purchased a lot of his expensive books), a good 70% of images in his books were the same type of images we discard at photo school developing labs and the same type of images our instructors at Photo 1 asked us to improve. Reasons: out of focus, bad composition, low quality grainy and muddy images. Well, it's the name that sells, you know. It takes a lot to be Bruce Weber. Honestly, his works for Abercrombie and Fitch were much better than the books. If I were to make a name like my idol, my works will sell, as well. And I am not kidding.