Edie Factory Girl
by David Dalton
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Author: David DaltonPhotographer: Nat Finkelstein
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-24
ISBN: 1576873463
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: VH1 Press
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Book Review: No "Lightning" Here
Summary: 3 Stars
How anyone could produce a photo book on Edie Sedgwick and manage to make it this dull is beyond me. Graphically, it's an eyesore--the too-small font, which appears in a myriad of colors and sizes, is difficult to read at least half the time, and the photos--far from capturing Edie at her peak as the product description reads, are largely unflattering, showing a tired and pasty looking girl in rumpled babydoll nighties-- devoid of the energy that made her so enchanting-- A falling star is depicted, rather than a rising one.
Her "peak" had undoubtedly already passed, in '64-65, and photos of her from that time are vibrant, vivid and inspiring. Although great photos of Edie continued to be taken (most famously from the original "Ciao! Manhattan" shoot), by '66-'67, the damage she was doing to herself was beginning to show.
In her best photos, she is alive, awake, alert and uniquely responsive to those around her. These photos, although some are undoubtedly good, are largely culled from only a few sessions, many showing her in a twilight haze that quite frankly is depressing, seldom looking at anyone, unfocused, daydreaming into space or looking down, not interacting with, but removed from her environment, forever applying makeup and seemingly lost in her own world. Lost she may have been, but she left a better photographic legacy than this. The Edie: Girl on Fire book comes considerably closer to catching some of her lightning in a bottle, is a better read, and infinitely more of a feel-good affair.
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