Global Faces: 500 Photographs from 7 Continents

#506
Title: Global Faces: 500 Photographs from 7 Continents
Photographer: Michael Clinton
Publisher: Glitterati, Inc.
Year: 2007
352 pages

A strangely disappointing collection. Though roughly organized into regions, there's little in the way of guidance or orientation, and there is a section of people the photographer knows, posing, which is antithetical to the stated intention of the book. Many of the photos are blurry, not artistically so but as if they are blown up details from larger photos that had something else as their focus. The overall effect is frustrating and claustrophobic. I should be thinking about the human family or some such. Instead, I kept wondering if I had the right pair of reading glasses. Instead, read the excellent Traditional Peoples Today or Material World, or the classic Steichen The Family of Man.