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Sylvia Plachy's unguided tour

Name: Sylvia Plachy's unguided tour
Author: Tom Waits]
ISBN: 9780893813932

by Tom Waits]

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Unguided Tour. Photographs by Sylvia Plachy;

Afterword by Guy Trebay. Record by Tom Waits. This collection of Plachy's revealing portraits and visual puns invites a wider audience to join her tour of people and places. 120 black-and-white duotone photographs, 10 1/2 x 11 1/4, 144 pages. paperback;

"Plachy is both a journalist and a diarist. In either role she has a refined sense of the absurd, a fluid compositional style and a knack for capturing the ineffable."

People Magazine

"This book is evidence that Sylvia Plachy is an indefatigable, gifted and compassionate chronicler."

Robin Lippincott, The New York Times Book Review

Sylvia Plachy's photographs have freshness and spontaneity, ocnveying drama one moment and prompting laughter the next. Now available in paperback, this first published collection of her images invites a wider audience to join her Unguided Tour of people and places. Winner of the International Center of Photography Best Book of the Year. 120 duotone photographs.

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Library Journal

Plachy's photographs, regularly published in The Village Voice , are at once journalistic and personal. While presented here as an ``unguided tour'' of everything from portraits (parents, pets, musicians, and writers) to street photographs (markets, factories, accident sites, and demonstrations), the pictures have in common beautifully arrested motion and expressive emotion. Richly printed in duotone, 130 black-and-white photographs--accompanied by the artist's statements and vignettes of dreams--weave in time and place from Plachy's birthplace in Hungary to France, Sicily, Howard Beach, and Nicaragua. The collection is also notable for its humorous and striking juxtapositions. Tom Waits's musical accompaniment (on a flexible record included with the book) is superfluous but perhaps emblematic: traditionally Hungarian in flavor, transformed into a unique creation. Unguided Tour is a traveling exhibition which opened this fall at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.-- Ann Copeland, Champaign, Ill.

Booknews

Plachy is a staff photographer for the Village voice where her regular photographic column titled "Unguided tour" has delighted readers with poignant and startling images since 1982. This collection of 130 duotone photographs ranges from the photographer's native Hungary to her present home in Queens, stopping off in Nicaragua, a Marine boot camp on Parris island, and Manhattan, where she has photographed visiting celebrities, and anonymous street scenes. Accompanied by a flexible record of music by Tom Waits. 101/2x111/4". Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)