All American: Family Album

First Edition 1/4000. 4to. Linen Taped Stapled Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.np (140pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Creative Director – Dennis Freedman. Designed by Edward Leida. This is the third, lavishly produced Bruce Weber “All-American” limited edition! “Family Albums” introduces readers to a group of diverse and uniquely talented people, all of who present an aspect of American family life. It contains photo essays and texts by Weber, as well as Ranee Palone Flynn’s vivid studies of teenagers, Sam Shaw’s intimate portraits of Marlon Brando and John Cassavetes with Gena Rowlands, Betty Kuhner’s documentation of the Kennedy family, Joel Sternfeld’s landscapes from his series “On This Site,” Gilles Larrain’s great color images of transvestites in the late 1970s, music by Phil Ochs, the dreams of Texan painter Forrest Bess, Mary Lloyd Estrin’s portraits of residents of Lake Forest, Il, and Mary Randlett’s photographic peek into the world of artist/poet Morris Graves. As with all of Bruce Weber’s books, the quality of the design, paper and printing is impeccable. Not unlike the previous books, there will be only one printing of this title. A pristine in the original shrinkwrap, at the publisher’s list price.