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Summary: Pure magic
Review: This book must be seen to be fully appreciated. A powerful journey through the stages of pregnancy and infancy. Unbelievable poses by newborns are breathtaking and artful and elegant. A must for baby lovers everywhere.
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Summary: Truly Beautiful.....
Review: This is a truly beautiful book. It shows the beauty of pregnacy. It always gives me a warm feeling whenever I look at it. If you are passionate about babies, pregnacy, and birth, then this book is for you!
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Summary: PURE
Review: This is a truly, truly remarkable book. I feel honored to have a copy. Incidentally, have you noticed that all the ratings are either five stars one star? Isn't that interesting!
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Summary: PURE
Review: This is a truly, truly remarkable book. I feel honored to have a copy. Incidentally, have you noticed that all the ratings are either five stars one star? Isn't that interesting!
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Summary: BREATHTAKING!
Review: This new book from Anne Geddess is absolutely stunning. Anne strays from her "cutesy baby" formula and the result is truly beautiful artwork. PURE features both color and black & white photographs of the different stages of pregnancy and motherhood - from the first moments in the womb to photos of the tiniest newborns. PURE perfectly captures the natural essence of the creation of life. Beautiful!
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Summary: very[faux]
Review: This would have been a great approach if real mothers were photographed with their own children. As I read the names of the `mothers' and the babies it became apparent what a staged affair this is. We could only find one immediately postpartum woman. Apparently Anne is not above our culture's belief that women must be thin to be attractive. Pregnancy and postpartum body shapes are interesting, natural, and beautiful to those that understand the complex beauty of childbirth. Anne, given her standing as a photographer, missed a great opportunity to portray what is natural is truly beautiful and worth pondering. In many ways I am not comfortable with this book on my coffeetable.
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Summary: very[faux]
Review: This would have been a great approach if real mothers were photographed with their own children. As I read the names of the 'mothers' and the babies it became apparent what a staged affair this is. We could only find one immediately postpartum woman. Apparently Anne is not above our culture's belief that women must be thin to be attractive. Pregnancy and postpartum body shapes are interesting, natural, and beautiful to those that understand the complex beauty of childbirth. Anne, given her standing as a photographer, missed a great opportunity to portray what is natural is truly beautiful and worth pondering. In many ways I am not comfortable with this book on my coffeetable.
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Summary: Beautiful!~!
Review: Well my fiance got this book for me, becuase I had wanted it for such a long time. ANd I was so amazed even from the very front cover. I still look through it every once in a while, and I find that these photographs are absolutely beautifully timeless. The Pregnant body is beautiful and the whole point of this wonderfully crafted book is to let women know that even when they are pregnant they are beautiful. There is such beauty with mother and daughter/son. Maybe I'm just a fanatic....This book is a must have for anyone who loves this type of art. And it's not porn, at least I dont think so. It's tasteful in my opinion. Granted yes..some are..Interesting...but still it's still beautiful. A must have for Anne Geddes fan,come on she spent 5 years on it, and it payed off.
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Summary: Enough of the damn babies already!!
Review: When will this woman get over all of these damn babies? Please.
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Summary: Not so great
Review: While Anne Geddes definately takes brilliant newborn shots, and this book is a welcome departure from her other work, I found her treatment of the women very poor. For example, one model named Emma, appears to be a victim of starvation. And it's particularly disturbng to see Emma with her ribs and hipbone protruding from her body cradling a newborn with the title, "love" or "pure" beneath. The babies' ages are listed in the caption of each picture, it would have been really interesting to see a truthful representation of a mother after 2 days or 2 weeks as well as the baby. Alas, another example of our culture's insistance that women, at no time ever should have an ounce of fat on their bodies.
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