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Summary: true art
Review: A truly beautiful work of art. While viewing Anne's photography its important to keep in mind that we are viewing images that symbolize innocence, putity and beauty. This book shouldn't be looked down upon as a collection of snapshots on someone's fridge. Excellent Mother's Day gift, I just stopped in to pick up a copy for my mom.
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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: 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: Stunning!!!
Review: Anne Geddes is truely gifted at photographing children and letting their spirit and innocence show through. The pictures are beautiful and breathtaking.
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Summary: The beauty of innocence
Review: Anne Geddes is truely one of the special photogrpahers of this world and her work with babies is nothing less than inspiring. As evidenced in this and her other work she captures the innocence and beauty of children, sometimes as a simple black and white photograph, sometimes within a costume. What strikes me about every one of her photos is the child's face and expression is the centrepiece of the photo. It surprises me and amazes me how some people find wonderful heart-warming photos a problem. A couple of the reviewers on this page have made comments about the photos that I think says more about them than the work of Anne. It worries me that people see other things and miss the beauty of the children she captures. It is truely art to any parent that has loved their child. This is a book to cherish.
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Summary: Gotta love those chubby cheeks!!
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: A beautiful, touching book perfect for any mother.
Review: As a mother to be this book was perfect for me. As I wait for my chid to be born looking at this book and reading the little quotes under each picture fills me with emotion and antisipation for the birth of my child. I love the book!
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Summary: creepy!
Review: God, her pictures give me the willies. The kids look embalmed. I'd never let her photograph my children. I fail to understand why these photos are so popular.
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Summary: ¿From small beginnings come great things.¿
Review: Having introduced a fresh artistic vision to the photography of children, Anne Geddes continues to expand her critically acclaimed body of work. Now, LITTLE THOUGHTS WITH LOVE, Anne's first large-format gift book since her New York Times bestseller DOWN IN THE GARDEN, showcases selections from her most recent explorations in black and white. These poignant, richly textured images of mothers, fathers, and babies-along with new and classic full-color photographs-are paired with her favorite quotes on childhood. In LITTLE THOUGHTS WITH LOVE Anne shares readings she selected especially for this book. These expressions touch a chord in her heart and reflect the joy and wonder of life that she captures in her photography. By turns humorous, inspiring, and thoughtful, LITTLE THOUGHTS WITH LOVE will draw knowing nods from anyone who has ever held or loved a baby. A man cradles an infant to his chest alongside these words from Pablo Casals, "We should say to each of them: Yes, you are a marvel." Marcelene Cox wisely notes, "Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires," while jaunty tulip babies seem to bob in Anne's accompanying image. The essence of the proverb, "A mother understands what a child does not say," is captured as a woman caresses a baby with her cheek. And it takes a few moments to discover the many little faces nestled in the forest scene that illuminates J.M. Barrie's famous observance regarding a baby's laughter and the beginning of fairies. Filled with Anne's trademark angels, woodland sprites, blossoms, and children radiating their singular charm, LITTLE THOUGHTS WITH LOVE includes quotations from Eleanor Roosevelt, Lord Byron, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, Luther Burbank, Pearl S. Buck, Hans Christian Andersen, and many others. Their words echo the loving voices of parents, grandparents, and friends. Complemented by Anne's tender images, four of which appear in stunning gatefolds, they remind of us of every kiss bestowed on a sleeping child's head.
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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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