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Everybody's got an ex. And at some point in time, everybody's been one too. Artist/writer Leanne Shapton was reminded of this while staying at a new boyfriend's apartment for the first time. Everywhere she looked, she found pictures of his ex-girlfriend. Even in the kitchen, there she was: his ex, starting out from a photograph magneted to the refrigerator door.
So Shapton started looking at strangers she passed on the street, sitting across from her on the bus, blowing their noses in restaurants. Each one was somebody's ex. What qualities did they have that their replacements didn't? And vice versa? Fascinated by her own curiosity and jealousy, Shapton plumbed the depths of her paranoia and interviewed friends and acquaintances about their anxieties and peccadilloes.
The result is a book of unsurpassed originality: one of those unusual books that come along to delight us all. In Was She Pretty?, Shapton offers us a taste of the strange cocktail of admiration and intimidation we have for our lovers' lovers. And in this gern, Shapton weaves a voyeuristic tale of love and life through epigrammatic vignettes and evocative line drawings. Entire relationships are encapsulated in a few stingingly perfect lines.
Was She Pretty? can share the shelf with the work of the legendary William Steig, whose psychologically revealing early work inspired Shapton. An unflinching observer of human behavior, she invites us to peer into others' hearts - while reminding us that we shouldn't be surprised if we see ourselves staring right back.
So Shapton started looking at strangers she passed on the street, sitting across from her on the bus, blowing their noses in restaurants. Each one was somebody's ex. What qualities did they have that their replacements didn't? And vice versa? Fascinated by her own curiosity and jealousy, Shapton plumbed the depths of her paranoia and interviewed friends and acquaintances about their anxieties and peccadilloes.
The result is a book of unsurpassed originality: one of those unusual books that come along to delight us all. In Was She Pretty?, Shapton offers us a taste of the strange cocktail of admiration and intimidation we have for our lovers' lovers. And in this gern, Shapton weaves a voyeuristic tale of love and life through epigrammatic vignettes and evocative line drawings. Entire relationships are encapsulated in a few stingingly perfect lines.
Was She Pretty? can share the shelf with the work of the legendary William Steig, whose psychologically revealing early work inspired Shapton. An unflinching observer of human behavior, she invites us to peer into others' hearts - while reminding us that we shouldn't be surprised if we see ourselves staring right back.
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Leanne Shapton is an art director, illustrator, artist, and publisher based in New York. She has contributed work to the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, GQ, Jane, Flaunt and Seventeen, among others. She runs J&L Books with photographer Jason Fulford.
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