Keith Carter: Holding Venus

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Summary: Stunning Black and White Work
Review: Carter's book shows an excellent mastery of the black and white medium. He works with an amazing shallow depth of field for both portraits and landscape work. I found his images to be both haunting and alluring. I highly recommend this book, but also recommend viewing his actual prints in a gallery setting. Unfortunately, the book reproductions don't do justice to the original tonality.

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Summary: Just beautifull
Review: I like this selective focus images so much!
It's like a dream!

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Summary: most beautiful photo book ever seen
Review: I was browsing through the bookstore one day when I spotted this book. I have never seen prints (OK, reproductions of prints) so beautiful in all my life, and as a photo student I'm addicted to looking at every kind of photograph imaginable. Carter uses the Hasselblad arc-flex, a sort of bellows for the medium format camera, to get dream-like images where part of the image is in sharp focus and other parts drift off into softness. He has an extraordinary sense of light, capturing so many subtle nuances, and he tones his prints beautiful shades of brown and purple. Carter seems to tell stories with his photos - it's like you "read" his pictures, instead of simply looking at them. His passion for life and for what he calls visual "opera" are evident in every shot. Looking at his book, one is transported to a whole other universe, and dwells there happily.

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Summary: nice images
Review: keith carter's new book of photographs is a beautifully put together book. the publishers did an excellent job, they made a book that just looks beautiful, though i do see where keeping it in good condition might get to be a problem. the images are beautiful images, but after a while you do get a little tired of seeing the same thing over and over again. it's not as good as 25 Years, but i'd still recommend this book as an excellent purchase.

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Summary: nice images
Review: keith carter's new book of photographs is a beautifully put together book. the publishers did an excellent job, they made a book that just looks beautiful, though i do see where keeping it in good condition might get to be a problem. the images are beautiful images, but after a while you do get a little tired of seeing the same thing over and over again. it's not as good as 25 Years, but i'd still recommend this book as an excellent purchase.

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Summary: Great Reproductions
Review: This is Keith Carter's finest book yet, and it has the finest reproductions of his work that have ever been produced. No book can ever exactly reproduce a photograph's tones; however, this publisher's use of 4-color, which has never been used on a Carter book before, comes closest to capturing Carter's magic--and there is probably no contemporary photographer more magical than Keith Carter.