David Friend, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-374-29933-0
Friend, a former director of photography at Life
and currently editor of creative development at Vanity Fair
, writes: "For many of us, photos are the glue we use to hold in place the disjointed bits of fiction and fact that make up the stories
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David Friend. Twelve, $32 (640p) ISBN 978-0-446-55629-3
In-your-face sexuality goes mainstream in this rollicking history of a lubricious decade. Vanity Fair editor Friend (Watching the World Change) surveys charged developments in the culture and politics of the 1990s, including the first stirrings of...
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David Friend, illus. by Michael Rex. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-16956-4
Friend, an editor at Vanity Fair, debuts with a cheeky poem of a picture book, in which a boy proudly describes his prowess as he helms several trucks, trailers, and construction vehicles. Humorously colloquial rhymes are well-matched to the...
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David Friend, Author, Richard Brown, Illustrator, Rick Brown, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-82420-5
The author covers many bases in this book that depicts a boy and his dad watching a number of different sports: baseball, football, tennis, soccer, hockey, golf, basketball. Brown's colorful, contemporary, double-page illustrations of the various...
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Graydon Carter, Author, David Friend, Author, Christopher Hitchens, Introduction by . Abrams $65 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8109-7298-8
Vanity Fair
magazine has a reputation as one of the preeminent showcases for portraits in the world, and this book gathers together a good chunk of them in all their glossy, artificial splendor. There's almost as much celebrity behind the lens
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Graydon Carter, Author, David Friend, Author, Dominick Dunne, Afterword by ; afterword by Dominick Dunne, Knopf $75 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4248-7
Four years after Carter, Friend and Dunne weighed in with the impressive Vanity Fair's Hollywood
, they top themselves with this superb collection of in situ celebrity photographs. Parties that begin right after the Academy Awards have long been
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James Balog, Author, Jim Balog, Author, David Friend, Author Sterling $50 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7607-6216-5
In his innovative 1990 book, Survivors, nature photographer Balog used the conventions of fashion photography to make portraits of endangered species: he posed a mandrill on a stool, for example, and snapped a Florida panther against a white sheet....
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