A bit like looking through someone's photo albums.
357881
In 1982, Nina Stibbe moved from Leicestershire to London to take a job as a nanny. From 1982 until 1987, she worked as a nanny and went on to a polytechnic school. During this time, she wrote very frequent and detailed letters to her sister, Victoria. Love, Nina is a compilation of these letters. Nina describes being a nanny as "just like living in someone else's life" and this is exactly what readers are treated to in this novel. Nothing outrageous or sensational happens, but there are some funny parts and a few great one-liners. Overall though, reading this book was reminiscent of looking through someone else's photo albums. It is quite nice to see a few pages, but after a little while, you just want to skip to the end. That aside, I do think that the writing has a nice flow to it, so I would be interested in reading Ms. Stibbe's first work of fiction due to be published in the US in 2015.
1833419
This book is very big and heavy, but the photos are large, crisp and beautiful. Unfortunately, the captions often don't tell you when or where the images are from. Some of the text is very interesting and some of it just seems like the author's musings and are not informative. I would use this book mostly to look at the images and not necessarily for its substance. Overall it's nice to have.
916014
It did not have as many pictures as I thought it would.  It had quite a few when I browsed it online.
1759231
Yes the grammar is rough in places, yes the photos are of a poor quality, but overall it has an air of 'I was there', of eye witnesses giving an account of how they saw it, how they lived the events.
598382
I love the pictures but some of the details seem a little distorted.  I can't figure out what goes to what on some of the pictures.
3717399
This is a fairly interesting picture book of Michael Jackson's Early years, approximately up through the Thriller album. Basically it's a collection of photos all taken by Michael Jackson's photographer up until that time. Apparently after that, Michael Jackson switched photographers and generally had a habit of changing up the people he surrounded himself with on a regular basis, to keep things lively (or so it seems)...

There are a few interesting photos in here. Some of it is behind-the-scenes type stuff. Some of it is from performances. Some of it is family / personal photos and a few "glamor shots."

There's some commentary on many of the photos and a narrative to go long with it all. It seems like the timing is a bit exploitative (coming out pretty soon after Jackson's death). But in all, it was a fairly interesting read.

Also good if you want to see Jackson before the various plastic surgeries....
3779245
Two friends philosophizing on photography. There are a few good observations here, but mostly an anecdotal, personal view of the way photography should be practised.
180339
A ton of really well-known photographs taken over seven years. Each photo has a short caption to give context. This makes the photo book more interesting.
4250854
It's a fine little album.  A happy medium between flimsy "brag book" and shelf album.  I bought it for my sister; I wanted her to have something to keep and store the multitude of pseudo-Polaroids I printed and painstakingly cut for her 30th birthday party.  I liked that it wasn't adorned with words specific to family or friends.  I mean, if it referenced family AND friends it would have been fine, but since the photo garland I made included photos of family and friends (and possibly foes--not sure) it seemed tacky to purchase an album that so blatantly disregarded at least half of the people depicted.

Oh, and it was black.  My sister loves black.  In fact, if it wasn't black I probably would not have ordered it.  It also has a handy little elastic string to keep it closed.  That's pretty cool.

(Confession time:  My sister has not yet used the album.  The party was over a week ago, and when I was at my sister's this past weekend I noticed that the photos were stacked [albeit carefully] like a deck of playing cards, rather than encased in the safety of their tidy little album.  I'm not saying anything yet; my sister's been pretty busy keeping up with my toddler nephews and incubating a third baby [think pink!] and I don't want to give her something else to stress over.  I have full confidence that when she uses the album, it will do its job and do it magnificently.)
1642792
It's interesting to see how some folks journal, but doesn't really offer a whole lot of technique. It feels, in some ways, like a coffee table book.
4821622
Loads of pictures here but not really much detail about her life
Give away when done
2229482
Mitch Epstein devotes this Recreation book to many of his unpublished photos and they are presented in an impressively large format, nearly 16.5 inches wide by 10.75 deep, but I found this huge format rather unsettling because it became apparent to me that many of the sixty-six images lack the kind of detail that would benefit from this large page size.  On the other hand there are many photos that are saturated in visual detail and clearly work in this almost mini-poster format.  Plate forty-two, West Side Highway, New York City, 1977 showing a semi naked man resting on a sun-lounger near a parked Cadillac on some vacant ground with the Twin Towers in the background or plate sixty-six, Buena Vista, Colorado, 1988 with two happy model train fans surrounded by a diorama of tracks, houses and fake mountains are just two that will visually grab you.  I thought it was unfortunate though that this kind creativity does not extend to all the photos.

Apart from the usual credits and photo captions there is no text in the book so it is left to the reader to gain their own insight about what is being revealed (and many of the photos clearly make me ask: what is going on here?) in this work.  I suppose it is a bit old fashioned now to expect to read some technical reference about cameras and such but Mitch Epstein's work was featured in the two important eighties photobooks dealing with new talent, 'American Independents' (ISBN 0896596664) and 'New Color / New Work' (ISBN 0896594599) and both had this to say:

'Epstein used either a 6x9 cm Palm Press camera with a 65mm Schneider Super-Angulon lens or a Fujica GW 690 with a 90mm Fujica lens.  Film was Kodacolor 400, Asa 120. If a strobe was used, it was a Norman 200 B or a Rollei Beta 5.  Otherwise, the photographs were made with existing light.  All prints are Ektacolor, 22x14 inches.'

One final comment, just where will anyone keep such a wide book?  I would be happy to create some shelf space if I thought other publishers would put out  photobooks in a similar format but somehow I doubt they will.

***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
4596524
Not much text, but some great photos of some great bands. It contains a who's who of music in its chronological images. I was surprised that I didn't see a shot of The Sugarcubes from when I saw them there in 88.
1066641
Pretty good. He's a little egocentric, though, alot of the text is just him talking about how he took his photographs. However, there's alot of handy information to be gleaned from listening to an experienced photographer gloat. ~_^
3263350
I ordered this product with the anticipation of being able to print a collection of colorful pictures from one source. There are many pictures of this sort out on the internet for free, after all, but one has to hunt around for them. This collection consists of 50 pictures that share a similar "zoo animals" type theme. Many of the pictures look like they started as the outline of the animal, with the designs added in at a later date. Some pages show the lines from the page being scanned in to the electronic book. I like the disclosure at the beginning that clearly stated the electronic edition via kindle was specifically intended to demonstrate the pictures one would receive if they ordered the full book, with a PDF link to print pictures at the end to keep the reviewer from disappointment. I'm not disappointed, but feel that these pictures where more computer generated rather then hand created.

I received this product for free or at a discount in exchange for my honest unbiased review.
596432
I was hoping for a little more unseen photos from fans.  Most pictures look like ones I have already seen.
1052124
It is helpful for some things, but not all I need. A book about four time the pages would maybe do it.
They need to update the photos, as in many of them it is difficult to make out details because they are rather muddy with poor focus and contrast.