Fat Baby

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Summary: The Fat Baby
Review: 'The Fat Baby' consists of 15 stories that combine black-and-white photographs and text by Magnum photographer Eugene Richards. He has selected the most significant stories he has shot since the early 1990s, most the result of magazine assignments.


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Summary: Stunning book
Review: It is a deeply moving photojournalistic record of the highest probe. Painfully honest, profound, harsh, unnervingly personal and exceptionally remarkable, this book is one of the best on my own personal and yes, unfairly short list of truly great photographers.

To all aspiring photographers and to established practitioners, I would suggest that perhaps instead of searching for your own style or buying the latest tool in the growing digital photo arsenal -- save the money and get the Gene RichardsÕ ÒFat BabyÓ collection published and printed with care by Phaidon Press.

Hopefully it will serve you well as a "lighthouse" showing you the right direction while you navigate in the frustrating, never-ending search for new assignments. Perhaps constantly reminding you of what powerful photojournalism can be when commercial compromises and opportunistic careers are not the only options.