Sock Monkeys
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Photographs by Arne Svenson. Edited by Ron Warren, Jonathan Safran Foer. Contributions by Glenn O'Brien, Ingrid Schaffner. Text by Simon Doonan, Neil Gaiman, Peter Getty, Robert Gluck, Penn Jillette, M. Raven Metzner, Isaac Mizrahi, Dale Peck.
In 1985 Ron Warren began collecting sock monkeys--those icons of American thrift and inventiveness that for generations have been hand-stitched from a pair of red-heel work socks. Years later he met photographer Arne Svenson, who, intrigued by the obsessive nature and growing size of the collection, began with equal obsession to document one by one its more than 1,800 examples. To convey the distinct personality imbued in each monkey by its maker, Svenson photographs them in the manner of classical black-and-white portraiture: flatteringly lit, cropped at the shoulders, eyes to the camera. The first 200 of these sock monkey portraits, reproduced larger than life as full-page duotones, are assembled in this book. Invited contributors, including novelists Jonathan Safran Foer, Neil Gaiman, and Dale Peck; entertainers Penn & Teller; and fashion commentators Simon Doonan and Isaac Mizrahi, have interjected short stories inspired by the subject of their favorite sock monkey photograph. The result is an engaging, humorous, and at times disturbing reanimation of creatures long relegated to the attic or the back of the closet.
PUBLISHED BY: Ideal World Books
FORMAT: Flexibound, 8 x 10 in. / 224 pgs / 2 color / illustrated throughout.
ISBN: 9780972211123 ISBN10: 0972211128
PUBLICATION DATE: 12/02/2002
AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop.
Bookseller Price Code: TRADE
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