Product Description

A fascinating collection of images of James Joyce, his family, and friends, including Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald, offers photographs, drawings, cartoons, and sculptures, some famous and familiar, some from private collections and previously unavailable. 10,000 first printing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2092736 in Books
• Published on: 1995-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 112 pages

From Library Journal
James Joyce is remarkably alluring, and it's not just the writing. There's something about the figure of old Kinch himself with his walking stick and thick spectacles that's compelling. This heavily illustrated extravaganza (90 photographs in all) celebrates the great artist in all his incarnations from Dublin boyhood to elder years. Except for the mustache, he looks the same throughout-his is a face scratched in stone from birth. The late Anthony Burgess's introduction provides a brief biography on Joyce, and the volume is capped off with a chronology of his life. The main course of this sumptuous feast, however, is the portfolio of photos and drawings, many familiar (by Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, for instance) but many published here for the first time. Though unfortunately a bit pricey, this is nevertheless a rich gallery of portraits of the artist that no true Joycean should be without. Recommended for serious literature collections.
Michael Rogers, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews
``Joyce was so little of a visual writer that he created characters one can hardly see,'' writes Anthony Burgess in his introduction to this array of images of James Joyce. But photographers loved him. And why not? With his arsenal of eye patches and dark glasses, his occasional goatee and cane, Joyce presented the very image of high modernism, the platonic ideal of the artist in exile. Many of the photographs here chosen by Cato, an award-winning art director and designer, and Vitiello (The Technology of Man, not reviewed) will be familiar to readers of Richard Ellman's biography (particularly the one of Joyce at 6, wearing a sailor's suit and looking at the camera as if he could read its mind); others are published here for the first time. In addition to photographs of Joyce (with his father, Nora, their children, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Beach, and others), there are drawings by various artists, including Brancusi and David Levine. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Customer Reviews

Portraits of Joyce as a Young Dog
OK, so I basically stole the title for this review from Dylan Thomas (another author to read!). At any rate, it seems this oversized book is out of print, although Amazon.com will try to find it for you. If they can't...

122 pages of fascinating photos, drawings, manuscript revisions, and quotes by Joyce; statues, drawings, photos, and even stamps of Joyce! The prints are excellent, and help you feel like you know the man (and family) just a little bit better. Originally published at $39.95 (a price for Joyce fans only, I think), its new low cost makes it an excellent purchase for all interested in literature and/or photography. I haven't seen the $72 "Images of Joyce," (sold at Amazon) but this well-designed book, showing Joyce at various ages and locations, is well worth looking for.

Demand a reprinting!
What a shame that the publisher let this first rate book go out of print. Perhaps, the market can work if enough folks demand a new printing of the book.