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Summary: THE IMAGE BOOK OF THE YEAR WITHOUT DOUBT
Review: Dance lovers, whether modern or classical, will relish this book. Superb photographs, one after another, attest Barrett's unerring sense with subject and shutter to ensure in every one a unique moment fixed memorably.
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Summary: Dancers' Viewpoint
Review: Greg Barrett has an innate sense of capturing a dancers' soul on film and transferring it to print. If these dancers could only speak, it would make for scintillating dialogue! Tutu will become a well used item on your coffee table. It's unsurpassed!
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Summary: Dancers' Viewpoint
Review: Greg Barrett has an innate sense of capturing a dancers' soul on film and transferring it to print. If these dancers could only speak, it would make for scintillating dialogue! Tutu will become a well used item on your coffee table. It's unsurpassed!
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Summary: Why I made this book..
Review: I am one of the clumsiest people you could meet and am certainly no dancer. But whom better, I thought, than such a klutz, to make a book which is a medium between dancers and audience which might help bring each of them a little closer to the other?My hope was to make a book that showed how it feels to be up close to these extraordinary dancers; and we could not have come much closer than we came making 'tutu', believe me. When, from here in Sydney, I saw 'tutu' on Amazon.com's Web site, I thought: "well now the Australian Ballet can be on a kind of permanent world tour". People who have bought the book (and it's all but sold out here in a few months) tell me it's like no conventional dance book they've ever seen. Certainly we didn't avoid shots that weren't 'pretty'. Almost everything shows that could show and it's release hasn't been free from controversy. But I leave it to you to judge. I hope there's something here for everyone. I'd welcome hearing what you think.
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Summary: Tiny format detracts from very good ballet photography
Review: I have always been one to believe that photographers who specialize in capturing the grace of the human body and ballet dancers can collaborate to produce the most sensational photographic images. The photos in "Tutu," by Australian photographer Greg Barrett, are very good at depicting the artistry of dance and the beauty of the ballet body, but there is one glaring drawback: the smallness of the images nearly kills the impact of both the artistic technique and the beauty of the dancer's form. My decision to give this a 3-star rating is due solely to my dissatisfaction with the published product, not with its artistic content.
I find no fault whatsoever with Mr. Barrett's methodology for highlighting a dance company's (all the subjects are members of The Australian Ballet) grace and talent through photography. In his words from the introductory Monologue, the photographer recounts: "One lens. The same lighting all the way through. Minimal props. No trampolines. No manipulation of the images." The result is nearly 150 b/w photos of dancers in amazing positions, some as if frozen in mid-air. Lois Greenfield ("Breaking Bounds") mastered this imagery in the early 1980's with great results. The dancers (a small percentage nude or semi-nude) are great at revealing their expertise at physical expression. The images are very good, and they show vitality although, from a strictly technical standpoint, the photographic quality could have been better (Mr. Barrett admits that he "couldn't [have used] a much worse camera for shooting dance photography." Still, each and every photo in "Tutu" is worth a look.
My only major criticism is that this collection of photos does not do justice to the dance imagery because they are simply way too small. The book's pages measure about 6" x 7", which results in some of the images being tiny, barely 2" x 2" in some cases. In comparison to the works of others (Greenfield and Howard Schatz come to mind), this book left me frustrated and longing for the impact I got from similarly-themed works by other photographers.
Believe me, these are good photos. But, given the talent of everyone involved in this collaboration, a larger presentation would have produced a book definitely worthy of more than three stars.
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Summary: gorgeous pictures
Review: Personally, I cannot get enough of books of photography with its focus on dancers.So I am disappointed with how few I have found that I have truly loved! In fact, this is the ONLY book so far that I give a 5 star rating. The pictures are crisp and clear. The dancer's bodies varied (important!)yet all beautiful, the captured poses interesting, captivating ect. ect.....I wish there were more like this one.
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Summary: gorgeous pictures
Review: Personally, I cannot get enough of books of photography with its focus on dancers.So I am disappointed with how few I have found that I have truly loved! In fact, this is the ONLY book so far that I give a 5 star rating. The pictures are crisp and clear. The dancer's bodies varied (important!)yet all beautiful, the captured poses interesting, captivating ect. ect.....I wish there were more like this one.
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Summary: Tutu
Review: The tension between the formality and the intimacy of the photography in Tutu is mesmerizing. These dancers, and this photographer, are simply extraordinary. I loved this book and recommend it unreservedly.
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Summary: Tutu
Review: The tension between the formality and the intimacy of the photography in Tutu is mesmerizing. These dancers, and this photographer, are simply extraordinary. I loved this book and recommend it unreservedly.
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Summary: tutu a good book
Review: this is a very good book if you love dance and good photography
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