The Look of Buster Keaton

Rating:
Summary: Beautiful
Review: I confess I read the other review of this book before I wrote mine and I should just say "ditto". This book is absolutely beautiful. If you are looking for a book loaded with photos this is the book. Some of the captions are a bit pretentious and I would love to know what Buster would think. Look past the comparisons to Magritte and take this book at face value. The book is out of print but Amazon found it in about one week and it was well worth looking for. If you are a true Keaton fan you will spend hours looking at this book over and over.

Rating:
Summary: Beautiful
Review: I confess I read the other review of this book before I wrote mine and I should just say "ditto". This book is absolutely beautiful. If you are looking for a book loaded with photos this is the book. Some of the captions are a bit pretentious and I would love to know what Buster would think. Look past the comparisons to Magritte and take this book at face value. The book is out of print but Amazon found it in about one week and it was well worth looking for. If you are a true Keaton fan you will spend hours looking at this book over and over.

Rating:
Summary: The best coffee-table book about Buster Keaton ever produced
Review: This book is extremely hard to find. A library book edition of it I once found had photos actually cut out of it!
The only other time I've seen it was in the movie "Benny & Joon", in a short scene on a train. Johnny Depp, whose character imitates Buster Keaton, is reading it.

Written by a Frenchman, the text is adulatory and pretty existential, but it does point out in a cogent way that BK was one of the sole comedians of any age, gender or style to possess bona fide sex appeal.

The photos are the bulk of this large book, and the reason why collectors would want it in the first place. Beautifully reproduced, of satisfying size and resolution, the pictures in The Look of Buster Keaton constitute the best collection in one volume of rare studio shots like Hurrell's glamour photo of Buster, stills from various films, and family photos not often seen.

For an in-depth discussion of Buster Keaton's importance as an artist, his massive influence on Europeans, and the stunning array of photographs it contains, this book cannot be beaten.

Rating:
Summary: The best coffee-table book about Buster Keaton ever produced
Review: This book is extremely hard to find. A library book edition of it I once found had photos actually cut out of it!
The only other time I've seen it was in the movie "Benny & Joon", in a short scene on a train. Johnny Depp, whose character imitates Buster Keaton, is reading it.

Written by a Frenchman, the text is adulatory and pretty existential, but it does point out in a cogent way that BK was one of the sole comedians of any age, gender or style to possess bona fide sex appeal.

The photos are the bulk of this large book, and the reason why collectors would want it in the first place. Beautifully reproduced, of satisfying size and resolution, the pictures in The Look of Buster Keaton constitute the best collection in one volume of rare studio shots like Hurrell's glamour photo of Buster, stills from various films, and family photos not often seen.

For an in-depth discussion of Buster Keaton's importance as an artist, his massive influence on Europeans, and the stunning array of photographs it contains, this book cannot be beaten.