"BLAHNÍK BY BOMAN. SHOES, PHOTOGRAPHS, CONVERSATION". Collectif. Editions Chronicle Book, San Francisco. 2005. Imprimé en Allemagne. in-4, couverture cartonnée sous jaquette photo. Non paginé (224p). Texte en anglais, introduction de Paloma Picasso, illustré de 169 reproductions photographiques couleurs, pleine page, de modèles de chaussures de Manolo Blahnik, par Eric Boman.

 

""Manolo's work is his response to life. This book is my response to that." With these words, famed photographer Eric Boman sums up Blahnik by Boman, his extraordinary collaboration with legendary shoe designer Manolo Blahník. In more than 165 breathtaking photographs, Blahník's exquisitely detailed, unabashedly luxurious, and impossibly sexy shoes take center stage in a fabulous array of Settinos - a nautical shoe on a jaunty day out at the beach; an achingly romantic shoe next to its love, a rose in full bloom; a crocodile shoe found lurking in a swamp. Boman's unerring eye and uncanny empathy with Blahník's creativity make for spellbinding and wickedly amusing pictures, images that allude to the collaborators' many shared and eclectic influences from the cinema to history, from the natural world to art and literature. Witty, playful; beautiful, totally individual, this book, complete with entertaining snippets of conversation between Blahník and Boman and an introduction by their great friend Paloma Picasso, is a remarkable visual dialogue between two outstandingly creative talents. For any shoe lover it will be, if not as wearable, then just as covetable as a pair of Manolos."

 

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