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Jock Sturges: Life Time | 
 enlarge | Creators: Jock Sturges, Walter Keller
Publisher: Steidl International Photography
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 68226
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.4
Dimensions (in): 14.5 x 12.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 3865217001
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.21092
EAN: 9783865217004
ASIN: 3865217001
Publication Date: November 1, 2008
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Callout: My hope is that my work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body, fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it. People who make pinup photographs don't care who the woman is, what tragedies or triumphs that person's life might encompass. My work hopefully works exactly counter to that. My ambition is that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. --Jock Sturges, the Boston Phoenix
Long known for his radiant black-and-white naturist portraiture, Jock Sturges has also been quietly working in color for more than two decades. Life Time presents a broad range of this color work for the first time and carries forward Sturges' extended portraits of families in Northern California counter-culture communities and on French naturist beaches. Working with the same models and their families in his long-term studies of growth, change and relationship, his large format images borrow significantly from classical periods in both photography and nineteenth and early twentieth century painting. The large color plates in Life Time represent almost perfect one to one translations of the original transparencies and are rich with detail and physical and psychological nuance. Sturges describes his work as "identity driven" because his portraits represent collaborations that stretch over entire lifetimes. The confident ease with which all of his subjects present themselves to his camera evidences a rare level of trust and friendship.
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 way too much of the same December 17, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
`Life Time' is disappointing. A collection of photographs which, with the occasional exception (skinned knee), lacks the magic and artistic quality of Sturges' earlier work. Some photographs even look amateurish, hardly rise above the nudist magazine level. While leafing through it I get the impression that the profits of his publications have become more important than the uniqueness of the work. Color also makes it look cheaper, not at all timeless. He'd better stick to black & white. Look at `Misty Dawn - Portrait of a Muse' instead. Two stars, though, for the superb printing quality and hardcover binding.
 Without such Beauty life would be a mistake! December 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jock Sturges is a master photographer, an artist, and this new album is is masterpiece. One has to ask: what next? Is it possible to go further than these color photos of the people he loves and photographs? And is so, which direction? Black and white photos were his realm. These color photos are his rainbow. Let's hope the next album will be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow we all believe in as artists. Yes, without such beauty life would definitely be a mistake.
Gorgeous December 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sturges has a unique talent for bringing his subjects to life on the printed page. Sometimes, he focuses on the single figure: a solemn child with skinned knee, coltish teen, or adult in the full bloom of her beauty. Other times, he sets his model against a glowing sky or evocative shore. Most of these photos present two or more subjects. That creates contrasts that I find an endless source of wonder. The figures of different ages stand out most obviously. Lingering over a group, however, reveals individual differences that I find more interesting, things I might never have noticed seeing each model in isolation. The most striking sets, however, might be those of a single model, taken ad different times. One series featuring Adele shows this most clearly - photos from 2005, 2006, and 2007 show her starting the voyage to the adult beauty that surely lies ahead for her.
Like that cover photo, many of these pictures express familial love that I find deeply touching. They seem to reflect Sturges's own affection for his models, and their comfort and trust in front of his camera. Far beyond mere respect for his subjects, that friendship with them distinguishes his work from any other I know.
-- wiredweird
One of His Best - Sturges Should Do More in Color November 20, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book in my opinion is one of Jock Sturges' best collections, if not the best (or at least it might be my favorite). Yes, his black and whites are excellent but I think his work is even better in color like in this book. He should do more in color in the future. And like in his other works the models are nudes (young girls mostly; but also female teens, women and a couple of boys).
My only complaint about "Life Time" is the size of the book... it's huge, doesn't fit easy or properly on your bookshelf (might not even be able to put it on your bookshelf). But don't let that be a deterent from buying it.
Fans of Misty Dawn who has featured heavily in is other books/collections might be dissapointed here as she only appears in one picture. This is probably due to the fact that he released a book devoted souly to her just last month (so Misty Dawn fans might want to check out that one, "Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse"). I myself am not that big of a fan of hers, I think other models Mr. Sturges has used in the past and in this book ("Life Time") are better. Infact I think she's become less beautiful as she's entered her 20's.
My favorite model/subject found in "Life Time" is Adele, with the picture of hers I like best on page 146 (the one on page 145 is a close second). She's a very beautiful girl and appears quite comfortable in front of the camera. If Jock does another book devoted to a single model he should use her. I suggest "Adele: Portrait of a Muse II".
Another natural in front of the camera is Megan-Tara, my second favorite model in this book (she features heavily in this one like Adele, infact she's the younger girl on the cover). The picture of her I like best is on page 164, though all are good. Other models I enjoyed in this book are Ella, Cassandre, and Eva.
One more suggestion to Mr. Sturges is he should consider a book of photos devoted to male subjects as that would offer some variety (his subjects are female 95% of the time thus far). Maybe that could be his next book, followed closely by one devoted to Adele.
If you're a fan of Jock Sturges, then be sure to buy "Life Time". It's a must have and will be a very welcome addition to your collection.
Magnificent November 20, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This Sturges' book is incredibly stunning. I'd not seen any of his colour photography, save for a few that appear in Aperture's 'Notes'. That was a much smaller book (in terms of its physical dimensions) and was seemingly a reflexive piece, exposing the conditions and processes that develop his work.
This work, Life Time, is MASSIVE! It is a collection of colour images that include many familiar models. There is an intimate, longitudinal aspect which is characteristic of Sturges' oeuvre.
Fans of Sturges will be familiar with the powerful, luminous quality of his black and white images. His colour photography is just as remarkable in that regard, if not more, than his black and white work. The quality of these reproductions is incredible and the publishers should be commended for producing such a magnificent collection.
If you're reading this then I assume you're probably somewhat interested in Sturges. Make haste in getting yourself a copy but prepared to have your breath taken.
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