Description
Forget the man in the moon. Twenty years ago, Swiss graphic designer Jean Robert discovered a face in a padlock. Since then, he and his brother Francois have been photographing the smirks, smiles, and pouts in everyday objects, finding uncanny resemblances to human and animal faces in everything from buildings to mops to shoes. In the lively spirit ofPlay with Your Food comes Faces, their collection of over 150 whimsical photographs that communicate a world of expression—all in one satisfyingly chunky book. Each beautifully designed page features a different object with its own quirky personality—and a hidden face guaranteed to make anyone smile.
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Jane Bown has over 50 years' practical experience as a professional portrait photographer for the Observer newspaper. Working exclusively in black and white, using only natural light and two cameras, she has photographed many of the most famous individuals of the second half of the twentieth century.Film stars and directors, authors and poets, comedians and pop stars, celebrities and politicians, artists and designers, have all passed before her lens - Faces brings together a captivating selection of these portraits.Jane Bown relates how, working within the time constraints of a newspaper photographer, she has developed her own unique style of finding the winning picture, how she composes with light and dark and how she develops an individual rapport with her sitters to capture their personality on film.
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