lastnightsparty: Where Were You Last Night? [Hardcover]

Merlin Bronques (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2006

WELCOME TO NYC’S HOTTEST UNDERGROUND PARTIES

If you missed last night’s party, here’s your VIP pass to New York City’s deliciously sexy club scene.

It’s a voyeuristic spin with today’s downtown demimonde, where hipsters, rockers, celebrities, and drag queens meet and misbehave with unabashed enthusiasm. Bared flesh, intertwined tongues, and de rigueur attitudes are all captured by Bonques’s lens in photographs that are fresh, fun, and hot. If this is your scene you may find yourself here; if not, welcome to the best party in town.

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About the Author

Merlin Bronques is the controversial nightlife personality behind the web site lastnightsparty.com who believes that photography is more rock and roll than rock and roll is. He lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 175 pages
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition (September 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810949024
• ISBN-13: 978-0810949027
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 9.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Desperately Seeking Attention, October 3, 2006

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DJY51 (Westchester County, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: lastnightsparty: Where Were You Last Night? (Hardcover)

Bronques captures the desparation of the late night party crowd, people who will do anything to get noticed. I feel terribly sad looking at much of his work. He never judges his subjects; he merely captures them screaming at the camera, "Look at me. I'm special." Unfortunately, being featured in Last Night's Party, is like being in yesterday's news. It's so easy to be a has been. I wonder if when people look at themselves in his book, they reflect on what's missing from their lives. It's an extremely revealing photo expose'. Well done. I highly recommend this book.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing, November 30, 2007

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Alexandrea - See all my reviews

This review is from: lastnightsparty: Where Were You Last Night? (Hardcover)

I think Marques has a brilliant idea here. His photos are intruiging, colorful, animated, funny, sad, erotic, dark, dirty. Mostly its a curiousity factor, getting to see a party you were never invited to.

"Merlin Bronques is a talentless photographer who takes advantage of young drunk girls to get them to undress for photos." Someones been drinking that haterade. FEMALE perspective: blaming the photographer is a cop out, those girls are perfectly aware of what they are doing to themselves, drunk or not.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars brillance in film, September 6, 2008

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R. L. Tan (Aust) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: lastnightsparty: Where Were You Last Night? (Hardcover)

this book makes you feel the need to be invited to better and more raving parties. while it shows what many would do for attention to get photographed, it is a somewhat a true representation of how a person really is when they let loose. i loved flipping through this book so much and spotting the likes of kanye west, madonna, david bowie, leighton meester etc. 4 stars! minus one for not making the book much thicker, would have been an even better coffee table book otherwise