Tuscany : Inside the Light

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Summary: A beautiful book, perfect to give as a holiday gift
Review: I was captured by the cover and when I looked inside this book, I loved the color photography. It made me feel like I'd been to Tuscany! I gave it as a housewarming gift to a friend. I think it would make a terrific Christmas gift too, a perfect coffee table book.

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Summary: DISAPPOINTING!!
Review: I was expecting so much, and received so little! Don't be fooled by the beautiful cover! All the pictures seemed similar in washed out colors and shape, as if the photographer never left one area of Tuscany. He captured very few of it's many facets. Out of the 79 photographs, there was only about 15 that did anything for me. And there was not ONE photograph of the fields of sunflowers that Tuscany is famous for. Only a picture of dead ones in winter!
Tuscany is breathtakingly gorgeous, and vast, with so much character! Very little of that is captured in this book. It didn't do Tuscany the justice it deserves!

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Summary: Tuscany Inside the Light
Review: If you are familiar with Meyerowitz's gorgeous book "Cape Light" you will be disappointed in Tuscany. The Cape Cod book was published by the Boston Musuem of Fine Arts and contained wonderful color saturated plates. Tuscany, on the other hand, looks like an amateur effort. The skies are washed out, there is little definition in much of the landscape photos and it is simply mediocre and uninspiring. I am assuming this is the fault of the publisher since Meyerowitz is, in my opinion, a first rate color photographer.

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Summary: Tuscany Inside the Light
Review: If you are familiar with Meyerowitz's gorgeous book "Cape Light" you will be disappointed in Tuscany. The Cape Cod book was published by the Boston Musuem of Fine Arts and contained wonderful color saturated plates. Tuscany, on the other hand, looks like an amateur effort. The skies are washed out, there is little definition in much of the landscape photos and it is simply mediocre and uninspiring. I am assuming this is the fault of the publisher since Meyerowitz is, in my opinion, a first rate color photographer.

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Summary: incredible book
Review: this book transported me back to one of the most beautiful and enchanting places in the world- tuscany. the photography is wonderful; there are many photographs that are just incredible. Meyerowitz's use of light is amazing, and the accompanying text gives a welcome perspective on what the reader is seeing. this is a great xmas present .

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Summary: Pure and unfiltered
Review: This is not a book about Tuscany as a series of pretty pictorial pictures, instead this is a book about looking and seeing a landscape transformed, shaped almost by a particular light, brilliantly sunny or gloomily misty.
There is a pure humbling feel to this body of work, whose subject Joel Meyerowitz has not re created in any grand graphic sense but simply drawn our attention to. Joel has created such a sense of place that one feels transported to the 'real' Tuscany, but we in turn are asked to look and consider our own surroundings and lives. What is and what could be.
A brilliant book.