ALL
IN THE FAMILY:
FAMILY ALBUMS
Bruce Weber
Softbound, 8.5" x 11", Unpaged
2003, Little Bear Press
Black-and-white and color illustrations
"For
the past three years, Bruce Weber and the editors at Little Bear
Press have published a softbound collection of photographs, paintings,
poems, song lyrics, and snapshots that circles around the notion
of 'all-american.' At the heart of these collections is a spirit
of diversity and acceptance. Weber has always had a knack for
presenting his audience with a collection of images that has a
ring of familiarity to it; after looking through the book you
feel as though Bruce had been sitting next to you on the couch
the whole time, describing the full story behind each image. Family
Albums, the third installment, brings together an utterly
diverse family: Ranee Palone Flynn's portraits of teenagers, Sam
Shaw's intimate shots of Marlon Brando, and Mary Randlett's photographic
glimpse into the world of poet Morris Graves. And, of course,
there are some great images and essays by Weber himself."
All-American: Family Albums
introduces readers to a group of diverse and uniquely talented
people, all of whom present an aspect of American family life.
This diverse universe includes: Ranee Palone Flynn's-winner of
this year's Boston Museum of Fine Arts Maud Morgan Prize-portraits
of teenagers, Sam Shaw's intimate portraits of Marlon Brando and
John Cassavetes with Gena Rowlands, Betty Kuhner's documentation
of the Kennedy family, Joel Sternfeld's landscapes from his series
"On This Site," Gilles Larrain's visions of transvestites
in the late 1970s, music by Phil Ochs, the dreams of Texan painter
Forrest Bess, Mary Lloyd Estrin's portraits of residents of Lake
Forest, IL, and Mary Randlett's photographic peek into the world
of poet Morris Graves. All-America: Family Albums also
contains previously unpublished photographic and written essays
by Bruce Weber. These are a few of the "All-Americans"
contained in Bruce Weber's new book. - publisher
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