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Updated: March 2002 SHARP Winner of Best Photo Book, Photo District News, 2000 "Study the pores of the stars in Sharp, which features Nigel Parry's very up-close-and-personal photographs." —Vanity Fair "...offers subtle and penetrating views, in stark black and white, of some of the world's most intriguing celebrity faces." —Us Weekly "His black-and-white work is brutally precise in its depiction of Bill Clinton, Tommy Lee Jones, Harrison Ford, Larry Flynt, Margaret Thatcher, Britney Spears, and Jerry Springer. Some of the photos are studies in pores and ill-shaven skin—it takes courage and confidence to face Parry's lens. The results are thrilling, subversive, and beautiful." —American Photo "For an up-close-and-personal glimpse at a more modern celebrity (including an introduction by one: Liam Neeson), consider Nigel Parry's Sharp, featuring such favorites as Susan Sarandon (that's partner Tim Robbin's eyeball on the cover), Tommy Lee Jones, and Meryl Streep." —Vogue "Parry—who has photographed everyone from [former] President Clinton to Anthony Hopkins to 'N Sync—went through his contact sheets from the past 12 years and compiled his favorite takes for the 200-plus-page hardcover book. Most of the photos have never been seen before, including the cover image, an unusually disconcerting portrait of actor Tim Robbins." —Photo District News "In 1994, [Parry] made his own luck by moving to New York City.... Now, six years later, he's one of the most in-demand editorial photographers around. His new book, Sharp, is a collection of the best of his photographs of celebrities—from Allen Ginsberg to Samuel L. Jackson to [former] President Clinton." —New York (8 page excerpt) "...as soon as you start flicking through this compendium of shots by ex-pat British snapper Nigel Parry, you know you're got somthing special in your hands...what makes this indeed an extraordinary volume is that you keep wanting to go back to the images. There's something almost hypnotic about them, and you could stucy the best of them...for hours." —Heat "Aptly titled, Sharp is a strong monograph chock full of disquieting images." —Picture |
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