Close Friends

By: Gianettino, Larry

Gianettino's larger than life portraits of the tiniest toys reveal surprising complexities of expression This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158418003X
• ISBN13: 9781584180036
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Fotofolio Inc
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.5" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

CLOSE FRIENDS IS TOUCHING !!!!

This was a great book! The pictures really where touching.In answer to the ? the bunny has a head wound not a flower ( I am a HUGE fan of that picture!) I also LOVE the Psychotic duck and Fuzzy black bear! May Larry Gianettino rest in peace with all his little creatures.

Wide range of emotions

Much like Joost Elffers or Saxton Freymann (those guys who do the Play With Your Food books), Larry Gianettino gets a lot of emotion out of little things. The book is made up of extreme, extreme close-ups of animal toys - the miniture type that you'd buy for 10 cents in a seedy novelty shop, that were made in china and don't quite get the anatomy right. The emotion range is wider than just scary, however. Each photo is a glipse into a disposible, plastic life. Does the piggy want to play or cause terror? Is the lamb timid, sad or sleepy? More interesting is the effects of mass production on expression - is that red spot on the bunny a flower or a head wound?Fun, funny and thoughtful. Plus the printing quality is phenominal.

Chillingly fascinating

Gianettino perceives childhood toys in a way different than most people might do; with horror. True colors are revealed when the plastic is confronted a little too closely for their liking. Dogs' nuzzles turn into fangs and white rabbits suffer head wounds. A very worthwhile book; childhood nightmares surfaced.