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Title: Coming of Age by Will McBride, Guy Davenport, William Simon ISBN: 0-89381-853-4 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 31 May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good book for boy entering adolecens!
Comment: I bought this book when I was looking for some puberty material for my 12 year old son. I thought at first that it was a bit too pornographic for a pre-teen to see,but the reality is,this book is just perfect. My son and I looked inside the book together and it was a lot easier for me answering any question about his body when you have pictures of other boys his age who are the same stage,or soon to be stage. It was really a fine ice braker and I'm sure any father with a soon to be teen age boy would agree. Mothers too can take advantage of the book as well..
I highly recommend this book to anyone.....
Rating: 3
Summary: Not what I expected...
Comment: I ordered this thinking that the book would contain more photographs like the one on the cover, strong, sensual images of young men/boys making the transition from childhood to adulthood, and all that that entails. There were some great images in the book, the 15 yo matador and his family, the boy standing naked beside his fully clothed brother.... but there was a lot of wasted potential as well. As mentioned in other reviews, the photos of Indian boys towards the latter third of the book are somewhat out of place, but so is the final set of pictures (even though there are of a German teenager) that come from another of McBride's books.
All in all, this book was something of a disappointment...
Rating: 3
Summary: An interesting collection of very varied photographs.
Comment: This is an interesting if slightly perplexing collection of photographs. I guess that the authors aim to present images of young boys making the difficult transition to young adulthood has been shown, but with a non-cohesive sense of place. The presentation of young Indian boys towards the centre of the book comes in sharp contarts to the images of West German boys elsewhere. Indeed, I felt they were out of place and opportunistically placed. Almost as if the author suddenly found this odd set of pictures he'd taken years ago and thought "I could use some of those here".
The collection ranges from candid photgraphs to rigidly posed studies, some of the latter being amongst the most haunting I've ever seen. There truly can be beauty in the peri-pubescent and adolescent male. I know some people have claimed that this book has been produced to satisfy that strange group of people who call themselves "boy-lovers", and it may indeed appeal to such people. However, lovers of the male form more generally can gain from viewing this collection, and trying to understand the context in which the photographs were taken. ....
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Title: The Beautiful Boy by Germaine Greer ISBN: 0847825868 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Boys of Swithins Hall by Chris Kent ISBN: 1879194252 Publisher: GLB Publishers Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Boys In Shorts by Chris Kent ISBN: 1879194287 Publisher: GLB Publishers Pub. Date: 10 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Real Tom Brown's School Days by Chris Kent ISBN: 1879194392 Publisher: GLB Publishers Pub. Date: 02 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sam Carson: First Exposure by Sam Carson ISBN: 3861873591 Publisher: Bruno Gmunder Verlag Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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