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(More customer reviews)While the majority of this book looks great, it is dragged down by very poor reproduction on several of the images. I understand and appreciate that doing a complete monograph of a particular artist with a large output can be daunting. There is no excuse, however, for the poorly photographed images that were used for some of the paintings. I have been an amateur photographer for over 20 years and I can say with great confidence that a cheap "point-and-shoot" camera had to have been used on at least a few of the paintings. Poor color quality, washed out areas caused by the flash, bad lighting, extremely grainy images. This is basic photography 101. Some of these problems could have been taken care of with photo manipulation software as well. This does not appear to have been employed either. I know that some of the same paintings are reproduced in other art books in much better quality, so good photos do exist. I do, however, give it the benefit of the doubt in my rating, for the rest of the book. If not for poor quality control this would be highly recommended.
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