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David Bowie Is... by Geoffrey Marsh, John Savage, Victoria Broackes, Howard Goodall, Christopher Frayling, Camille Paglia
3.0
The photo’s are really great, I loved seeing the original lyrics, drawings, costumes, promotional & on stage photo’s etc. It’s a gorgeous book.
The text wasn’t that great though.. I bought it mostly for the photo’s so I wasn’t really disappointed, but I had hoped to learn a bit more about David Bowie, his music & life. I haven’t read everything, just some parts here and there when something caught my attention. the articles weren’t as interesting as I had hoped (though some of the ones that have gone unread might have been?) and I didn’t like how most of them where written. The font in which they were written, while beautiful, wasn’t my favourite to read text in either.
So overall, I wouldn’t recommend this book if you’re going for the text, but if you just want to see the photo’s and maybe read some here and there i’d say Go for it!
The text wasn’t that great though.. I bought it mostly for the photo’s so I wasn’t really disappointed, but I had hoped to learn a bit more about David Bowie, his music & life. I haven’t read everything, just some parts here and there when something caught my attention. the articles weren’t as interesting as I had hoped (though some of the ones that have gone unread might have been?) and I didn’t like how most of them where written. The font in which they were written, while beautiful, wasn’t my favourite to read text in either.
So overall, I wouldn’t recommend this book if you’re going for the text, but if you just want to see the photo’s and maybe read some here and there i’d say Go for it!