- Hardcover: 88 pages
- Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing (27 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1899235574
- ISBN-13: 978-1899235575
- Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 17.2 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,054,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this collection of portraits of women, well-known paintings act as a point of reference. Yet these photographs set out to transcend the elaborate artificiality of the settings and look at the individual beauty unbound by the dictates of contemporary tastes or fashions.
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Good and bad, 9 July 2000
By William McEwen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Very Similar: Photographs by Frank Horvat (Hardcover)
In his enlightening introduction, Horvat says, "The faces which attract me rarely resemble those I am asked to photograph for fashion magazines."The pages that follow contain photographs of interesting faces he has selected himself. But Horvat's approach is flawed and the really excellent photographs number only a precious few.
Horvat's pictures look best when he keeps it simple and he allows those faces he loves to shine through. Too often, however, he seems unable to escape the influences of fashion photography, overwhelming and encumbering his subjects with distracting gawdy period costumes.
Horvat's use of color and light results in truly luscious photographs, and the reproductions in this volume are quite good. In my opinion, the book is worth buying just for what is good here.
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Photographic Meditations on Timeless Beauty, 30 Mar 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Very Similar: Photographs by Frank Horvat (Hardcover)
I saw one of this book's 70 photos of women on the cover of Zoom. It's been several years since a "mere" photograph struck me as stunning. The photos are "very similar" to classic portraits by Rembrant, Vermeer and other master artists. The lighting and color look like digital retouching at its most artistic. Some of the models seen to be aware that they are modern women in costume. But most are simply floating outside of time. A small gem.
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