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Summary: Great
Review: I received the book in excellent condition and it arrived very quickly. Thank you.
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Summary: I didn't know I liked her work...
Review: I used to associate flowers, cabbages, and other vegitation with Anne Geddes photography. I thought all she ever photographed was sleepy babies dressed up as herbs and the like. Boy was I wrong! The images inside PURE are stunning! They are so artistic and sophisticated and move way past her cabbage patch pics!
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Summary: A perfect book for new moms
Review: I'm expecting my first child next month. At my baby shower this week, my mother gave me a copy of Geddes' Pure. The photos in this book are astounding! Geddes creativity and imagination to create such beautiful images is mind boggling to a simple, non-creative person like myself. This book celebrates life, motherhood, birth, etc., and it makes me even more excited to be bringing a new life into this world. I recommend this book to new moms everywhere!
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Summary: Pleasant Surprise
Review: I'm not much for the cutesy babies-as-vegetable-and-flower motif of Geddes' earlier works. But, I randomly flipped through this book and loved it! I was truly surprised.The photos, reminiscent of different stages of birth, are beautiful AND artistic. They celebrate the creation of life and the true beauty of babies (rather than imposing "cutsey-ness" on them). Bravo! I would recommend this book as a gift of any woman that is expecting. It will make her feel special and beautiful as she goes through those sometimes difficult nine months.
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Summary: So very beautiful!
Review: I've always loved the work of Anne Geddes; this is a lovely and brilliant departure from some of her more whimsical photographs. So absolutely pure. So elegant. So moving. This is the perfect gift for all the special women and mothers on my Christmas list this year.
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Summary: Beautiful book
Review: PURE is filled w/beautiful photography of newborns. For anyone tired of babies in flowerpots, be sure to check out this book before you judge it. I was suprised by this book and really love what Anne Geddes has done in this one.
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Summary: ignore the insipid text and just look at the great photos
Review: There is some really beautiful photography here; those who only know Geddes for her incredibly twee "flower babies" may be surprised. Many of the photos suggest pregnancy and the birth process using techniques like suspending newborns in cotton mesh, surrounding the baby's head with folds of fabric suggesting the vagina, etc. Some are just cute [aw.. babies!], but some are also starkly and touchingly beautiful. What rather irritated me, though, was that only a few of the models were actually new mothers. Geddes states in the appendix to the book that she wanted to show mothers that their bodies are beautiful in all stages of pregnancy -- but apparently post-partum sized bodies are not, since most of the models are quite obviously not mothers of newborns. In fact, a few of the models were shockingly thin; these photos seemed very anti-maternal to me, and I found them grotesque rather than charming [although grotesquery does have its value]. Many of the photos are faced with a page of one-word text [fragile, adorable, extraordinary, etc.] That was a little hard to take [but they can easily be ignored].
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Summary: ignore the insipid text and just look at the great photos
Review: There is some really beautiful photography here; those who only know Geddes for her incredibly twee "flower babies" may be surprised. Many of the photos suggest pregnancy and the birth process using techniques like suspending newborns in cotton mesh, surrounding the baby's head with folds of fabric suggesting the vagina, etc. Some are just cute [aw.. babies!], but some are also starkly and touchingly beautiful. What rather irritated me, though, was that only a few of the models were actually new mothers. Geddes states in the appendix to the book that she wanted to show mothers that their bodies are beautiful in all stages of pregnancy -- but apparently post-partum sized bodies are not, since most of the models are quite obviously not mothers of newborns. In fact, a few of the models were shockingly thin; these photos seemed very anti-maternal to me, and I found them grotesque rather than charming [although grotesquery does have its value]. Many of the photos are faced with a page of one-word text [fragile, adorable, extraordinary, etc.] That was a little hard to take [but they can easily be ignored].
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Summary: Simply Beautiful
Review: This book is incredible! It is on my coffee table for all to see!!! Anne Geddes really outdid herself on this one.
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Summary: Not typical Anne Geddes
Review: This book is not your typical Anne Geddes books. Many of the pictures are of topless mothers, and the pictures were not fun or pleasing to look at as her other stuff.
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