Joyce Tenneson: Transformations

by Joyce Tenneson

Book Overview

A collection of Joyce Tenneson's ethereal photographs of the human figure. This book includes an illustrated interview with art critic David Tannous, which explores the autobiographical influences on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821221027
• ISBN13: 9780821221020
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Ethereal beauty

Another reviewer wrote, "Pictures of old people, fat people, etc., in various stages of undress" which gives you a very unfair idea of what this book is about. Many of the figures in this book are nude or semi-nude, many of the subjects are young and beautiful, and a few are old, a few are "fat." I count seven photographs which would fall into the "old and fat" category, and they are anything but revolting. Tenneson's work touches me in ways I cannot easily articulate. I've spent hours poring over these photographs, yet it's difficult to describe this book with any brevity. I cannot say it better than this statement which appears in the introduction: "Joyce Tenneson's world quietly, frequently, composes itself around dualities: angel and menace, childhood and age, beauty and sorrow, naked and veiled, earthy and ethereal." Her work is definitely worth your while -- I recommend you find out for yourself!