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Flight Attendants | 
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| Creator: Brian Finke
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 107153
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 51
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 10 x 0.7
ISBN: 1576874273
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9781576874271
ASIN: 1576874273
Publication Date: March 2008
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Book Description
Flying the friendly skies, Brian Finke began photographing flight attendants as he crisscrossed the country on Delta, JetBlue, Hawaiian, Hooters Air, Southwest, and Song airlines, before going abroad on Air France, Qantas, and British Airways. In London, he visited a flight attendant school, complete with emergency rafts and billowing smoke. Continuing east, Finke traveled Air Asia, Thai, Tiger, ANA, Japan, and Cathay Pacific. For the grand finale of his two-year trip, Finke traveled the illustrious Icelandair.
The result is Flight Attendants, a vibrant document of those adventurous souls who choose to work at 40,000 feet. Shot before, during, and after trips, at school and at home, Finke's photographs capture the allure of this high-flying profession alongside the more quiet moments of the attendants' daily lives. As in his previous collection of cheerleaders and football players, 2-4-6-8, Finke is drawn to the distinctive dynamics of team formation, focusing on uniformed individuals executing practiced actions—whether on the playing field or in the air. With an eye for the iconic as well as the absurd, Finke seamlessly blends the glamorous with the casual, offering a memorable look at the men and women of air travel.
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 disappointing May 28, 2008
There's not much to this book as a "coffee table" book. There is only one photo per two pages and no text accompaning the photos. What text there is is limited to a couple pages at both the beginning and the end of the book. The text at the beginning is by the author and is an abbreviated history of the flight attendant and how it relates to the airline stewardesses he studied. The text at the back is almost a criticism of the work. No where in the book is the answer to the most urgent question raised by this book: Why do the Tiger Airways flight attendants have the Visa logo embroidered on their blouses?
 Loved it so much, bought a second to cut up for wall-art... May 22, 2008
Loved this book, I'm in the airline industry and it brings the "new" reality of flying with the lost mystique. I also saw the Tribeca exhibition of this book and I wish I could have afforded one of the poster-sized prints; instead, I bought a second copy and framed my favorite shots. A nice addition if you are an airline buff or just need to be reminded that there is still something called "class" in the commercial airline world today.
Not the classic I was expecting April 15, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
From the 4 photos displayed, I was expecting more of a "classic flight attendant" look throughout the book. While there was a bit of that, most of what I saw felt a bit more mundane and typical of modern air travel. I get to experience more than enough of that without a visual coffee table aid.
The photography is well done. The quality of the book is excellent and the introduction is a fun read.
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