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Fashion photographer Mario Testino takes pictures of what he sees--and what he sees most is models. His colour-drenched fashion work is well known to readers of magazines such as Vogue. He has a particular knack for catching famous posers off-guard--Naomi Campbell looking over her shoulder as her exceedingly low-cut dress is zipped up her back(side); Carla Bruni, backstage at Dior, fully made-up and fully unclothed, shielding herself from Testino's spotlight. Madonna, perhaps his most famous celebrity muse, dancing offstage with her brother. All of these images are vibrant and compelling. But Testino's strength as a photographer is truly revealed when he puts his lens to less glossy images: a man's torso, crisscrossed with sheet marks; a stark black-and-white dual portrait of two young Muscovites; goldfish swarming in a plant-filled tank; a crowded, bronzed South American beach. The hundreds of previously unpublished photographs that make up Any Objections? are reproduced on full pages of heavy, pearly paper, unfettered by captions (the photos are all easily referenced at the back of the book). If you don't think you'll be able to resist the urge to tear out the pages to hang them on the wall, you might consider buying an extra copy.
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A collection of bold, fun, colourful images giving an insight into the life of Mario Testino, one of today's top fashion photographer. Over the past few years the name of Mario Testino has become synonymous with the cutting edge of fashion photography. His redefining images of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Madonna, as well as numerous campaigns for Gucci, Versace, Missoni and others, have established him as an arbiter of Nineties style. Born in Lima, Peru, he moved to London in his twenties and set about becoming a photographer. His tremendous energy and love of life carried him through the tough journey that finally earned him innumerable pages in Vogue and an address book that is positively bursting at the seams. Any Objections? is Testino's first book. Provocative and sometimes shocking, it is a lightning roller-coaster of unpublished images which brilliantly illuminates the vision of one of photography's shrewdest eyes. Fashion and the gutter, nature and artifice, high life and low, jostle for his attention. Faces of the very famous in the least expected places, bodies of the very beautiful, landscapes and cities, close friends and extraordinary passersby all find their place in a pattern which is held together by Testino's evident sense of the absurd. The book is an insight into the raw material of fashion, where a glimpse of life from a street in Tangier can be the inspiration for a fashion story in New York. At once diary and commentary, picture after picture (all reproduced full-page) provoke reactions as diverse as their subject-matter: from shock to amusement and from surprise to delight. Whether or not you have any objections, you can't help being intrigued by Testino's very personal view of the world that surrounds him.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Testino is most famous for his shoots of superstars and spreads in Vogue but here a new side to his work is shown. Based most around shots taken in Brazil, the book is full of images of ordinary but beautiful people in stunning surroundings mixed up with quite ordinary, reducing photos of celebrities (Naomi on the toilet, Madonna dancing merrily). In each photo, Testino captures a spirit that no other fashion photographer can it seems. Each photo shares a sense of the natural and enticing in this amazing book.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a feast of beautiful and sometimes wild images that draw you to read them again and again. At his best, I think Mario Testino captures the air of the End Of The Centry, as the curvaceous models are gliding in glamour, and you sense it is almost the end of the party. The way Mario Testino unfolds the narrative of images is seducing, because you are given the message that he is less keen to display a series of Vogue-like images than his investigation of the vainty fair. Although it is just recently published, I have been looking forwards to his next one already.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you wish to know all about Testino, then this is a small part of what you should know. It is certainly not all of it, but you can't afford to ignore it. On the other hand, if you aren't committed, it could take you either way.
Personally I find Testino rather 'arch' and suspect that he is more skilled than most in creating the impression he wishes the viewer to have. He has no commitment to 'truth' or integrity (in my opinion) and will do whatever it takes to serve his own desires.
Personally I find Testino rather 'arch' and suspect that he is more skilled than most in creating the impression he wishes the viewer to have. He has no commitment to 'truth' or integrity (in my opinion) and will do whatever it takes to serve his own desires.
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