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Finding Grace: The Face of America's Homeless | 
 enlarge | Creator: Lynn Blodgett
Publisher: Earth Aware Editions
Category: Book
List Price: $55.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 94126
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 124
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 13.9 x 10.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1601091052
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.2092
EAN: 9781601091055
ASIN: 1601091052
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
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Condition: BOOK IS CLEAN AND UNMARKED--SLIGHT WEAR TO EDGE OF DUST COVER
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Product Description
An amateur photographer from the age of 10, Lynn Blodgett studied under Andrew Eccles, a renowned photographer who was selected by The New York Times to shoot the cover of their millennium issue. Blodgett is also a businessman with a social conscience who travels the country as head of the nation’s largest provider of computer-based services to state and local governments. He does extensive fundraising across the country, with the funds going to benefit local homeless shelters and projects. During his travels over the last few years, he began keeping a photographic journal of the homeless people he met, along with their stories, in every city he visited. The result is this powerful collection of words and images that show how people who go through life ignored and reviled manage to endure, often with grace and humanity, the grimmest of life’s circumstances.
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 Appropriate Gift June 1, 2008
This was an appropriate and appreciated gift for my daughter who is Portland, Oregon's best Portrait photographer for the last five years.
THE TRUTH ABOUT HOMELESSNESS April 9, 2008
This book is such a wonderful portrait of the homeless. Beautifully done...he captured so much more than their outside beauty. He captured their inner spirit. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! Great seller as well.
Powerful photography March 26, 2008
Blodgett's photos help viewers see homeless people as PEOPLE. We see their struggles, their emotions, their love, their pain, their beauty. And his written commentary, though sparse, is equally powerful.
Finding Grace - a Closer Look at at the Homeless March 22, 2008
This book gives us a very intimate look at the homeless persons in our towns and cities. First of all, the many portraits are very intimate and the camera starky give us all the head-on facial and clothing of the subject. Each subject is photographed against a white background so that the eye absorbs only the subject At first one wonders if this isn't a bit too intimate and bordering on exploitation, since I believe each subject was paid a small amount for posing. However, after I went through the book, page by page, I felt that the ensemble of pictures was very respectful and achieves its goals of giving us a look at persons that we often choose to ignore and forces us to confront their "...pain, dignity, innocence and sadness." This view is punctuated in the elequent forward contributed by Danny Glover.
The book clearly succeeds as a work of art and celebrates the art of portraiture. The subjects are posed mostly in the same manner and one is forced to recognize the infinite variety of expressions that are reflected in the human face. As heavy as this subject matter would seem, I believe the author has left some room for humor, beauty, and dignity to shine through the specter of homelessness. It is difficult not to place yourself into the pictures.
Over half the book is gripping images March 14, 2008
This book is excellent. I found over half of the pictures to be overwhelming and gripping. Not because of the subject matter but because it is filled was EXCELLENT dramatic B&W images. Not just ones people tried to make black and white just to spice things up but powerful images....and with a powerful story line that makes you want to cry!
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