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Girls Standing On Lawns (2014)

by Maira Kalman(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0870709089 (ISBN13: 9780870709081)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Harry N. Abrams

review 1: Simple, yet powerful book. A collection of art and photographs from the Museum of Modern Art. Pages are minimal with one image/artwork and few words. These images represent an arrange of emotions and time periods. I read through this twice thinking about the images of my own life. The images where I was mad for my parents taking pictures of us. The times I refused to smile. The times I was full of smiles. Time evolves. The world moves on. We change as the world changes. More importantly, do we recognize small glimpses of our life that shed light on more stories from own personal journey? This is what the book inspired me to think about as I studied the images of these women.
review 2: Nearly everyone has either seen pictures like these or, more likely, has pose... mored for similar pictures. When cameras still used flashbulbs (yes, eons ago!), more often than not, the person wielding the camera would say, “Let’s go outside so I can take your picture,” and so, singly or in groups, you would pose on the lawn in front of the house or a car or a tree. And that is basically what this slim volume is: a collection of girls, standing on lawns, spanning decades. These pictures from the Museum of Modern Art are accompanied by captions that range from interesting to mere nonsense. The pictures – especially the older ones – are quite remarkable, the captions less so. This book is like picking up an old photo album belonging to people you have just met: you may not know the people in the pictures, but there is something there that you can identify with. less

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