Let Me In!

by Mario Testino

Inside the circle: Behind-the-scenes photos of celebrities by the fashion world's favorite photographer As one of the 21st century's most travelled, acclaimed, and influential fashion photographers,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3822844187
• ISBN13: 9783822844182
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 4.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.3" x 12.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent quality. Great conversation pice for your coffee table

Mario Testino is a geneous and all his works presented in this book are simply unique. you and your guests will be looking at it many times and you will always find something new to admire in this book. A must have item for you coffee table

Beautiful pictures!

The photographs are beautiful especially those of my favorite celebrities (Brad and Angelina)! Its a great addition to my coffee table collection.

A Photography Dream

This was a hard book to find. But, like anything you have to wait for, it's worth it once you get it! It is gorgeous! From the moment I took it out of the box, I didn't move. I even took it to my best friends house the next day and shared it with her. I love photography and especially photos of my favorite celebrities. I highly recommend this book. It's also a good-looking book on your coffee table.

Stargazers delight!

Beautiful photos of celebrities in their more casual moments. Though some of the photos are posed, they are all stunning and vivid. A great gift for the movie fan/celebrity watcher in your family.

"beautiful people, a lot of skin and a surprising sense of intimacy"...

First of all, let me tell you I may be a little biased with my review, because I love Mario Testino's work as it is. His photos of beautiful glamorous worlds and people living in them are always sleek, suave and well-polished, and they display -to my taste- a delicate sensitivity within image; both in reality and the 'make-belief'. You know: the whole smoke and mirrors thing, but it is obvious his smoke and mirrors have some magic in them. All the celebrities, models etc., or let's say his subjects, look like a million bucks, especially in this carefully edited book. Not that any of them are not gorgeous in real life, but they seem extra sublime if you will, and believe it or not, still 'human.' By risking to sound superficial, and shallow even, I daresay I love it. I appreciate to see so-called 'glamor' handled and manufactured in a way this sophisticated and tasteful. 'Let Me In' is a wonderful piece of high profile celebrity photo collection, which tends to catch its subjects in parties, social gatherings, or behind the scenes at fashion shoots or editorials. It is rough, time-to-time feels out of focus as a collection: more like a photo album of a photographer's 'work in progress' pile. Some photos were the ones that I had seen before here and there, but most are fresh from the oven. It may seem decidedly fame-obsessed to look at the photos of these actors and models that only display their general celebrity magnetism and magnificence, and one may ask what the difference is between this book and let's say some junk like the People magazine. And it is this: these photos do take joy in their pop culture value in a tongue-in-cheek way. They are loud, illuminated, skin-deep yet joyful. They do not take themselves so seriously, yet the book has no excuse about its existence other than it's demanding title: LET ME IN! It is a naughty, almost forbidden, and intimate collection. I love it. I love the roughness of the photos, how generous Testino is, and how wonderfully 'generic' most of the photos look. In a way, they are very much Warhol-ian, and in another way they are the direct opposite to what the 'celebrity' stood for in Warhol's world. It does not mean to say anything special. It is what Testino does best: beautiful people, a lot of skin and a surprising sense of intimacy. I highly recommend the book for anyone who appreciates the perception of a high fashion photographer on celebrity, and the slight obsession that we may all be in.