商品簡介
Photographer Platon somehow gained access--if only for a few minutes--to hundreds of the world's leaders, including presidents, prime ministers, dictators, and revolutionaries. This book presents page after page of up-close images of faces. Almost all are simple head shots shown full page. Readers can marvel at bushy eyebrows, unusual moles, strange configurations of mouth muscles, oddly expressive or inexpressive eyes, and so on--and wonder how each of these individuals sees himself in the mirror. Each person is identified by name in the photo caption and more thoroughly in the end matter with a biographical paragraph. New Yorker editor David Remnick provides an introductory essay. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Platon is staff photographer for the New Yorker, and recipient of the prestigious World Press Photo Award and National Magazine Photo Portfolio Award. He lives in New York.
David Remnick is editor of the New Yorker. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of several books. He lives in New York.
