Books by Howard Schatz and Complete Book Reviews
Howard Schatz, foreword by Vicki Goldberg. Glitterati (glitteratiincorporated.com), $95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-9823799-3-6
Doctor turned photographer Schatz celebrates the pregnant female nude in these images rippling with romanticism, abstraction, and movement. In one image, he uses light to highlight the upward curve of a thigh, shoulder, and hand. In another,...
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Howard Schatz, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Beverly J. Ornstein, Editor Chronicle Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0512-4
Printed in rich duotone, Schatz's ( Seeing Red ) new book of photographs of San Francisco's homeless is fairly dripping with nobility. But the mood is brave, heartening, beneficent. Trying to capture the people, not the plight, Schatz photographed...
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Howard Schatz, Author, Beverly J. Ornstein, Editor, Roger Ebert, Foreword by , foreword by Roger Ebert. Bulfinch $50 (263p) ISBN 978-0-8212-2907-1
Photographer Schatz (Athlete
) turns his lens to actors and challenges them to show off their craft. Many of the names are well known (Chevy Chase, Danny Glover, James Earl Jones, Edie Falco), but Schatz includes character actors as well, making for
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Howard Schatz, Author, Beverly Ornstein, Editor Photographic Publishers Guild $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-881021-00-1
In b & w photographs, each accompanied by a capsule biography, Shatz portrays 50 accomplished women of the San Francisco Bay area, in recognition of their achievements and of what he believes is an improved career environment for women. His subjects
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Howard Schatz, Author, Beverly Ornstein, Author, George Vecsey, Foreword by HarperCollins $59.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-019553-3
This striking coffee-table photo gallery looks at the human body in its fastest, strongest and most agile forms. The male and female athletes pictured here are pinnacles of physical achievement in sports from table tennis to sumo wrestling; they...
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