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 | | Edie Factory Girl by David Dalton, Nat Finkelstein (Photographer) ISBN-10: 9781576873465 ISBN-10: 1-57687-346-3 ISBN-13: 9781576873465 ISBN-13: 978-1-57687-346-5 Hardcover 2006-10-24 VH1 Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description She was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living distillation of the over-amped vision of New York in the mid-sixties. Like many exotic creatures that Andy Warhol shed his light on, she initially bloomed—became the symbol for all that was hip and stylish—and just as quickly began to disintegrate. Told with unsparing candor and with candid images that capture her at the peak of her Factory stardom, Edie Factory Girl is the short but enduring cultural story of Edie Sedgwick—releasing in time for the film of the same name starring Sienna Miller, and including rare photos of Miller as Edie. David Dalton was just a teen when he became one of Warhol’s first assistants, and was present for the arrival of Edie: witnessing her rise, her Factory superstardom, and subsequent unraveling. Like an anthropologist thrown together with a tribe of "wild" people, Nat Finkelstein entered the Factory just as Warhol was emerging as the supreme catalyst of the sixties. Among the freaky menagerie, Nat found Andy’s misbegotten princess the most fascinating and enigmatic character of her time, and with a compassionate lens recorded her fragile, fleeting beauty. Edie Factory Girl is a privileged glimpse into Warhol’s inner sanctum, via revealing interviews with intimates, friends, and scenesters, in which Edie orbits around the likes of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Betsey Johnson, Lou Reed, Judy Garland, and many more, before departing as quickly as she came. | ||
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Overtime at the Factory As I've stated in a few of my reviews, I'm a huge Edie Sedgwick fan, so any book with Edie in it will automatically be bought and poured over endlessly. Now, I wanted to like this book. I really, really did, but some of the text is off putting and only dampens the whole spirit of Edie. Most die-hard Edie fans know that there are two camps of people who had the privilege of knowing Edie and who are still alive and kicking. For what I'm sure are a myriad of reasons, both camps loathe each other. Not surprisingly, each camp released a book that was perfectly timed with the released of the Sienna Miller (unintentional) disaster flick "Factory Girl". Some of that distaste (or feud, if you will) comes through in this book which makes for an uncomfortable vibe. There's so few people who made it through that era alive that it's quite disappointing that they all can't just put their petty differences aside and quit the one-upmanship game. Edie wasn't a figure to be wholly admired, but I don't think she was figure to be mocked or ridiculed either. She had her problems and she wasn't perfect. None of us are. She may very well have been a vapid little thing, but I don't think anyone who lived their life as unapologetically and open as she did should dismissed. In my opinion, that's what this book does. I don't think anyone who takes the time to write or at the very least contribute to a book about a person should dislike them. They should have some affection for the subject and that just doesn't come through here which leaves me wondering why the book was released to begin with. The pictures are fantastic, but as others have stated, they've been seen and released countless times before. Again, I wanted to like this book, but aside from a few rude and thoughtless comments and a few (and I mean a few!) unseen photos, this book doesn't have a whole lot to offer. | ||
Nothing new This book is actually somewhat of a rip-off. Many of the quotes are from the book "Edie", which most people who would buy this book have probably already read. Though most of the pictures are candids, they are unlear, dull and don't give you any impression of Edie whatsoever. They are almost like bad pictures you might find in your basement that you meant to throw out. I was very dissapointed in this book. It's clearly another bad cash-in on Edie's posthumous fame. | ||
Edie: Factory Girl Nice looking Edie book with rare interviews & photos. Unfortunately, seems to concentrate a lot on the negative aspects about Edie & her life. Better off buying a copy on Edie:Girl on Fire! | ||
If nothing else worth it for most of the photos alone Each page has a gorgeous full color photo or photos of Edie, some of which I have never seen before but most of them I have in other books. A lot of the color photos also appear in Nat Finkelstein's The Factory Years which gives a greater photographic over view of "the factory". The pages are thick and glossy and technicolored like a Warhol painting and the font, utilizing many different font sizes in one paragraph, can be a bit challeging to read. The text is primarily a rehash of snippets from George Plimptons Edie: An American Biography which is far superior in content and photos although all of the photos are black and white. Over all a nicely done tribute to a fascinating and tragic person but more of a photo album/coffee table book than a biography. A definite must for any Edie fan. | ||
Finkstein & Fields arguing on Amazon might be better...If it's real. I suggest you read their messges to each other. I knew nothing about Finkelstein until I bought this book. His photographs of Edie Sedgewick are so absent of shading truth that at first I was startled by what I saw. Before this book, I'd seen her only in images of black and white, which leave the mind open to interpretation. Color forces you to see intriguing and harsh truths. I spent hours studying his shading and her facial pores. Yet one of the most striking photographs he took of Edie was in black and white when she had a lace shawl over her head. One can play around with black and white photos in the dark room. But in one photo in particular, he captured a death's-head. He writes in this book that he saw what was coming and purposely took the photos of her in the shawl that showed her in such a dark way. Whether that's so or not, he captured a young girl with death already there. Everytime I came across a picture that startled me or made me look twice, it was taken by Finkelstein. In this book and the other book that came out right before the movie, "Factory Girl," (Weisman's "Edie, Girl on Fire,") Finkelstein's photographs captured me every time. He shows a girl who is tired and pounding on the make-up in an attempt to seem like she once was. His photographs show that she was already dead inside long before she actually died at age 28. Where was he when Jean Stein's book, "Edie," first appeared in...was it 1981? As for Danny Fields, he's a raw gem that has contributed to our history in a great way that he seems to underestimate. Maybe the "feud" with Finkelstein is just a ruse. When you're dealing with people from Warhol's orbit who are still floating around out there....You never know for sure. | ||