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Summary: Anne Geddes's Best Baby Images Tenderly Covered with Quotes
Review: Anne Geddes has created a most rewarding book to view, to read, and to savor in Little Thoughts with Love. She starts with a sampling of all her best baby photographs, adds a tender quote to match each one, and portrays these words and images on facing pages on great paper with oversized spreads appropriate for this purpose. If you only buy one Anne Geddes book, I suggest that it be this one. Ms. Geddes is famous for transforming the little bundles of joy into imaginary creatures and plants. Little Thoughts with Love has the full gamut of her stylings. You will find babies as fairies, angels, teeny preemies in oversized hands, loved bundles being cuddled by adults, inspects, birds, flowers, and in twin, triplet, and larger combinations. Most of the images contain elaborate compositions and backdrops. Yet some are almost abstract in their simplicity. The more elaborate works are in blazing colors while the simpler, almost abstract ones are in black and white. A few are in black and white with a small number of elements hand-colored in. Despite the variation in technique, these are all symbolic of how we see and think about babies from our adult perspectives. The quotes are almost all ones that you have read before. One of the benefits of them is to provide Ms. Geddes's take on what the images mean to her. That made the quotes much more like a mini-essay. I liked the book's layout because it had lots of negative space on the left-hand side for the quotes. This also added negative space for the right-hand side images. The way the photographs bleed to the edges of the page creates a natural framing of the space beyond the book. The design works well. After you read and enjoy this book, I suggest that you think about the ways that babies express our own aspirations rather than their own realities. If you were to make your own baby portraits, how could you elevate babies even more than Ms. Geddes does? After enjoying all of those image-making thoughts, what actually is the natural reality of a baby? How can that best be expressed in a realistic, rather than a symbolic way? Next, consider how we look to babies. How would they make images of us? See, think, see, and think some more. The learning is in the iterations that go beyond what you have seen and thought before!
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Summary: Absolutely adorable!
Review: As a lover of quotes, words of wisdom, aesthetics, photography, and of course BABIES, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for that perfect piece to place in the center of his/her coffee table. Anne Geddes' love of photography, nature, babies, and toddlers will leap off each page and straight to your heart. "Little Thoughts with Love" will keep you smiling, laughing, and possibly crying each time you flip through the pages. The corresponding quotes are brilliantly selected as if to give you an exact image to place with the words. Whether you are expecting a child, already a parent, a grandparent, or even just a baby-lovin' college student like me, this book is for you! No matter what your age, if you are interested in anything that I listed in the first sentence of this review, you need to get your hands on this book. After all, "Babies are such a nice way to start people." --Don Herold (1889-1966)
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Summary: Absolutely adorable!
Review: I bought this book as a birthday gift for my sister who is an avid Anne Geddes fan. Am now acquiring one for myself as the photos are so spectacular and absolutely darling. They capture the rare moments of the child and Anne's creativeness is simply awesome. The little sayings are very touching and time after time of browsing through it, continually brings laughter and joy. Wonderful for picking up the spirits on a gloomy day. If you love babies.....you will love this book!
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Summary: tasteful and a conversation enhancer
Review: I have always been interested in Anne Geddes work, but finally purchased a book for myself. I was very impressed with obvious care she used and the openness of families to allow their children to be photgraphed so soon after birth. I think that it is wonderful that God's blessings are shown to others. I liked the fact that Ms. Geddes photographed children from all races and mixed races, of children and adults and children, within the photographs. Some of the quotes spoke to me personally, but all were heartwarming. I liked that Ms. Geddes also elaborated on details about the authors of the quotes at the end of her book. This book is on my coffee table which causes others to comment on it. I am very pleased with my selection and may consider purchasing others in the future.
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Summary: cute way to keep in touch...
Review: I saw Anne Geddes on Oprah Winfrey's show the other day, where they highlighted this book. It looked interesting and I decided to buy it. I am very glad I did. Anne Geddes has some of her trademark whimsical babies in it, babies looking up from flowers, etc., but she's added a much deeper element with this book; there are many touching photos, of premature babies being held by male hands, of angelic babies in heavenly places, plus there are wonderful poems and quotes with each photo. I weeped the first time I looked through it. This is a great book for mother's day, or for anyone who's recently given birth. I HIGLY recommend it.
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Summary: An adorable images that can be looked at over and over
Review: this book is pages and pages of Anne geddes pictures that are beautiful and adorably cute. there is a quote on each page that has to do with the picture. I love this book and for anyone who likes Anne geddes or babies you must have this book.
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Summary: great book - what is all this misplaced rage?
Review: This book, along with Geddes' others, is filled with wonderfully enchanting photos. The imagery is challenging and beautiful. The children seem lost in themselves, which is how children should be. I got this for a friend of mine for her birthday. She introduced me to this woman's work, and I have been enchanted ever since. We both have children and have thought of taking them to the park to try out our own "fun" photography. The grownups who are complaining about the "awful" places that Geddes uses for these photos have forgotten the wonderment of being a child. I am sorry if you were expecting Tupperware for a baby shower and got this wonderful treat instead. Find a library to share this book with.
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Summary: I love this book! Great coffee table book...
Review: This is a great coffee table book, leaves wonderfuly warm feelings in all that pick it up for a quick look. The quotes on each page, along with the picture are wonderful combinations. This is one precious photo book, even my young daughters like to look at the pictures. In addition, this will trigger the creativity in you to create works of art with your own photography projects! Enjoy this book, and leave it out for your guests to pick up and browse through.... sets the mind in a pleasant tone.
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Summary: I love this book! Great coffee table book...
Review: This is a great coffee table book, leaves wonderfuly warm feelings in all that pick it up for a quick look. The quotes on each page, along with the picture are wonderful combinations. This is one precious photo book, even my young daughters like to look at the pictures. In addition, this will trigger the creativity in you to create works of art with your own photography projects! Enjoy this book, and leave it out for your guests to pick up and browse through.... sets the mind in a pleasant tone.
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Summary: I just simply love it!!!
Review: This is the best address book. And all throughout the book there's many pictures of babies and Anne's work. This is a great gift to anybody!
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