Tokyo Love: Spring Fever 1994

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Summary: Not Up To Goldin Snuff
Review: If this collection of Goldin photographs demonstrates anything, it is fine wine, great paintings, loving relationships, and fine art education do not necessarily inspire, guarantee, or, in themselves, produce extraordinary photography. Whatever her experience might have been in Japan while making these photographs, the resulting images are, at the very most, photo album, vacation snap shots holding very little in substance and meaning to anyone except Nan Goldin. Goldin's effort here is one of self absorption which most artists bathe in on occasion. While the images in this edition, as boring and lacking in any form of specific or universal meaning as they are, can be 'blamed' on Goldin, the editorial decision to publish this book prove publishers continue to be a steady source for the 'bargain book' shelves at bookstores everywhere.

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Summary: A DUMB PHOTO BOOK OF ORDINARY JAPANESE PEOPLE
Review: Just an ordinary collection of young Japanese people in face or body shots wearing ordinary everyday street clothes. Very few nude or provocative shots. Was this someone's first intermediate school photo project? I am going to delete Nan Goldin's name from my hard drive.

Rating:
Summary: A DUMB PHOTO BOOK OF ORDINARY JAPANESE PEOPLE
Review: Just an ordinary collection of young Japanese people in face or body shots wearing ordinary everyday street clothes. Very few nude or provocative shots. Was this someone's first intermediate school photo project? I am going to delete Nan Goldin's name from my hard drive.

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Summary: If you don't appreciate Nan Goldin's work, you are ignorant
Review: Nan Goldin is one of the best photographers of our time. She is real, true and awesome. Her photographs are raw and unsensored. She doesn't just go out and photograph random people on the streets, which would not necessarily be a bad thing anyway... but she establishes real relationships with the people she photographs before taking their picture. Therefore, her images really show something true about the person. Her colors and compositions may seem simple or whimsical to a stupid person, but anyone with half a brain will see that they are actually carefully thought out. She is a master of color use in order to convey a certain mood. I love Nan Goldin and reccommend this book to anyone not looking for pretty nature photography or decorative type "art". Nan Goldin's photographs are raw, real, and powerful. ...

Rating:
Summary: If you don't appreciate Nan Goldin's work, you are ignorant
Review: Nan Goldin is one of the best photographers of our time. She is real, true and awesome. Her photographs are raw and unsensored. She doesn't just go out and photograph random people on the streets, which would not necessarily be a bad thing anyway... but she establishes real relationships with the people she photographs before taking their picture. Therefore, her images really show something true about the person. Her colors and compositions may seem simple or whimsical to a stupid person, but anyone with half a brain will see that they are actually carefully thought out. She is a master of color use in order to convey a certain mood. I love Nan Goldin and reccommend this book to anyone not looking for pretty nature photography or decorative type "art". Nan Goldin's photographs are raw, real, and powerful. ...