Through a collection of essays and photographs, a celebration of men reveals a side of celebrities that the world seldom sees, with portraits of Keanu Reeves, Jack Nicholson, John Singleton, Tom Hayden, Arthur Miller, and others.
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French photographer Vial invited Houston, best-selling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness (1991), to write the text for a collection of photographs of men taken first thing in the morning, before they "put their masks on," because she sensed that Houston loved men as she did, that is "for all the ways they are not like women, instead of the ways they are." Her instincts were correct: she and Houston make a great pair. Serious about photographing men at their most honest and vulnerable moments, Vial would literally wake her subjects up, and her black-and-white pictures embody the muzzy warmth of morning as sleep still clings to these good-looking, intense, still-dreaming men who gaze at the camera wryly, a bit chagrined and amused as they loll about, shave, drink coffee, or simply stare, slowly getting reacquainted with the world. All are actors, film directors, musicians, or artists, including Peter Falk, Robert Altman, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Gary Oldman, Wim Wenders, and John Singleton. This is one classy, sexy, and oddly intimate book. Donna Seaman
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Photographer Vial seeks to capture the intimate faces and unprotected aspects of men early in the morning: she convinced 100 men to allow her to photograph them when they get up, then arrived several hours early to assure their natural poses. The result is an excellent series of portraits which reveals personal and unprotected images. -- Midwest Book Review
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Beautiful, but not picturesque,
By "melissa007" (Seattle) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Men Before 10 A.M. (Paperback)
I bought this book looking for more of the wisdom I had found in other Pam Houston novels, accompanied with pictures. Instead, I found a wonderfully pretty book of black and white photos of men, with a little narritive to accompany them. The men in these pictures are mostly people who I haven't heard of: not-yet-famous actors, designers, etc. The few "famous" men are indeed charming in their morning faces. The photographs are well done and very candid. However...I wanted words. I wanted text. In this book I enjoyed very much what amounted to a short story by Houston and the dialogue between Houston and Vial. I also enjoyed the asides by Vial in describing the situations in which she phographed some of the men. It was typical Houston storytelling and candid thoughts by Vial. In short, this pictorial is a very good coffee table book. It is beautiful. However, if you are searching for another "Cowboys Are My Weakness" you should look to something by Melissa Banks or another Houston novel. The pictures are very good, but how long can you observe another disheveled man?
28 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
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Two words....Vin Diesel.,
By Jessica Rios (Astoria, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Men Before 10 A.M. Too (Hardcover)
All the men in this book are amazing in with their various looks and different ways about them. But, I'm sorry, Vin Diesel just looks sooo hot and stands out the most in this book. Of course, this is just my opinion, but it was reason enough for me to buy the book...hee.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Men in their natural habitat,
By The Atomic Fluffchick (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Men Before 10 A.M. Too (Hardcover)
No matter what celebrity drew you to this listing, you should know that this book is well worth having. Any star photographer can assemble a collection of famous people, but only Veronique Vial can bring you something quite like this. What you see, as you look at these images, are people so completely at ease with her -- and the camera's -- presence that they've let their guards down and revealed their most basic, human selves to her, to her camera, and to us. These are the stars before they put their public masks on, and Veronique treats them with enormous respect and kindness, while treating her audience to something we otherwise can never have: an intimate, private moment with our favorite public figures.
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- Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston in Back Flap
- Women on Hunting: Essays, Fiction, and Poetry by Pam Houston in Back Flap
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