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Bettie Page: Queen of Curves
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2014
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Bunny Yeager's Darkroom: Pin-up Photography's Golden Era
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2012
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New York
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2005
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Beefcake: 100% Rare, All-Natural
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2015
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In the Spirit of Miami Beach
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2006
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Carlos Betancourt: Imperfect Utopia
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2015
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"Reflections by a South African artist that reads more like a meditation on humanness than anything stereotypically labeled as a tutorial on drawing. Misleading by its title to a place you would never expect to find, but were grateful you did. Witty, "
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"It is incredibly difficult to read this book.
The inscription in the front says “to Minette with camaraderie feelings about drawing” - my mom had gone to the book signing so I have no idea what she told the author but she hit the nail on the head. Wh" Read more of this review » |
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“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
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“Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.”
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“This is not a how-to book.
It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book.
In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never a photograph or diagram in sight. Your mind's eye will create all the images in this text, and each mind is unique. Getting these, and other images, down on paper will provide you with fun, frustration, joy and despair. Like life,”
― The Mind's Eye: An Introduction to Making Images
It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book.
In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never a photograph or diagram in sight. Your mind's eye will create all the images in this text, and each mind is unique. Getting these, and other images, down on paper will provide you with fun, frustration, joy and despair. Like life,”
― The Mind's Eye: An Introduction to Making Images
