Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse
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Photographer: Jock SturgesEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN: 1597110744
Number of pages: 168
Publisher: Aperture
Book Reviews of Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse
Book Review: Worth Adding to Your Collection
Summary: 4 Stars
I should begin by saying I'm a fan of most of Jock Sturges' work. Some of his black and white pictures are just terrific, while others I don't quite get and his color work leaves me pretty cold. But when the day comes I can afford to purchase original photographs from any photographer, I intend to purchase several from Jock Sturges.
If you, too, are a Jock Sturges fan, you'll probably agree his choice of Misty Dawn as a subject was extremely wise. The good news is now you can have just about every picture of her he made in one book. I say "just about" because there is one picture I just love that he (or the editor) left out. (For that I deleted half a star.) The further good news is the book is printed to Aperture's high standard of quality (although one horizontal picture is printed on the page vertically, which looks like a mistake).
The bad news is the first half of the book works far, far better than the second half. The pictures are in chronological order (or at least appear to be) and for me, once Misty is married and posing with her husband, it's not so interesting any longer. He keeps revisiting the location with the window and shooting an updated version of the first picture. I have no interest in these only because I never quite understood the first version. (Second half of a star deleted.)
But the first half is great, for the most part. He has some terrific portaits. He has some lousy ones, too. But there are plenty other wonderful ones to make up for them.
Bottom line is: this book is worth adding to your collection.
Summary of Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse
Over the course of his career, Jock Sturges' long-term engagement with his subjects has been a cornerstone of his work. Misty Dawn, one of his primary and most popular muses, is one such subject; he has photographed her for 25 of her 28 years. Lithe, beautiful, classically proportioned, she is the personification of Sturges' philosophy of being at home in one's body.This volume follows her growth from a shy, tomboyish child to a gorgeous, confident young woman. Taken as a whole, this series of images presents a unique, fully realized portrait of a blossoming individual and explores a rare and beautiful relationship between photographer and subject. Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse presents iconic images as well as previously unpublished material, mined from Sturges' older contact sheets and newest work.
Jock Sturges, born in New York in 1947, received a B.A. in perceptual psychology and photography from Marlboro College in Vermont in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985. He has exhibited internationally, and his photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. His previous Aperture books include Notes, The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities.
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