Much Loved
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Much Loved

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  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Much Loved

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About this book

Award-winning photographer Mark Nixon has created a trove of quirky and nostalgic portraits of teddy bears and other stuffed animals that have been lovingly abused after years of play. MuchLoved collects 60 of these images along with their accompanying background tales. An exhibit in the photographers studio led to a small sensation on the Internet when a few of the pictures circulated unofficially on scores of blogs and on many legitimate news sites. Viewers have been intrigued by the funny, bittersweet images and their ironic juxtaposition of childhood innocence and aged, loving wear and tear. When you see these teddy bears and bunnies with missing noses and undone stuffing, you cant help but think back to childhood and its earliest companions who asked for nothing and gave a lot back. Praise for Much Loved: Much Loved is impossibly endearing in its entirety. Brain Pickings

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Information

Publisher
Abrams Image
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781419710124
eBook ISBN
9781613125755
Topic
Art
Subtopic
World History
CONTENTS
WHO KNEW?
Peter Rabbit
Greg’s Bear
Pink Teddy
Pierre
Teddy Moore
Teddy
Ted
Ted Ted
One Eyed Ted / Aloysius
Bed Ted
Ted
Flopsie
Brownie
Ted
Joey
Billy
Teddy
Peter
Ear Open
Teddy
Panda
Big Ted
Gerry the Giraffe
Teddy
Ted
Teddy
Samuel
Pedro
Giovanni
Slim Jim
Edward
Teddy
Teddy Tingley
Bugs
Danny
Red Ted
Teddy Boo
Teddy
Philip
Teddy
Bobo
Checky
Teddy
Teddy Gilligan
Spotty
Teddy
Teddy Bear
The Ted Family
George
Ted
Beary
Patsy
Bookie
Floppy
Daddy Bunny
Teddy
Bear
Teddy
Bunny and Rabby
Mr. Ted / Johnny’s Bear
Bunny
WHO KNEW?
Much Loved started as a very simple idea: to photograph some “loved to bits” teddy bears for an exhibition in my studio, which happily has a gallery space.
I got the idea from watching my son, Calum. I was struck by how attached he was to his Peter Rabbit, the way he squeezed it with delight when he was excited, the way he buried his nose in it while sucking his thumb, and how he just had to sleep with Peter every night. I vaguely remembered having similar childhood feelings about my own Panda.
The photographer I admire the most is Irving Penn. His portrait work, from the 1940s and 1950s especially, made me want to become a photographer. With his still-life work, I loved the alchemy of his Street Material series, how he could take pieces of trash and cigarette butts off the street, photograph them, and turn them into works of art. The idea of making an everyday object, something so familiar that it’s invisible, become visible again appealed to me.
So, I put the call out for people to bring in their much-loved teddies—the more loved, unwashed, and falling apart the better—to be photographed. I expected it to be mostly children, but it soon became apparent that the idea appealed very much to adults, and that many of them were still very attached to their teddies. It was as though they had been keeping a long-held secret and could finally tell someone what their teddies really meant to them.
Their strength of feeling took me by surprise. While waiting, they would tell some usually funny story about their teddy (how they had nearly lost it at some stage was a common theme), or would speak emotionally about what it meant to them. So the stories and memories became integral to the photographs, adding significance to them and bringing them to life.
One of these people, who had studied psychology, told me about the “transitional object” and later e-mailed me a link to some papers written on the subject. From what I understand, a transitional object is a teddy or a soft toy that is used as a kind of stepping stone in the separation of the baby from the mother. It is the first object apart from the mother that the baby becomes attached to, their first possession, and whether a child has something like this or not may affect them in later life. The adults who came to me with their teddies would certainly attest to the positive benefits of having had a transitional object.
When I sat down to write the press release for the Much Loved ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Page
  5. CONTENTS
  6. WHO KNEW?
  7. Peter Rabbit
  8. Greg’s Bear
  9. Pink Teddy
  10. Pierre
  11. Teddy Moore
  12. Teddy
  13. Ted
  14. Ted Ted
  15. One Eyed Ted / Aloysius
  16. Bed Ted
  17. Ted
  18. Flopsie
  19. Brownie
  20. Ted
  21. Joey
  22. Billy
  23. Teddy
  24. Peter
  25. Ear Open
  26. Teddy
  27. Panda
  28. Big Ted
  29. Gerry the Giraffe
  30. Teddy
  31. Ted
  32. Teddy
  33. Samuel
  34. Pedro
  35. Giovanni
  36. Slim Jim
  37. Edward
  38. Teddy
  39. Teddy Tingley
  40. Bugs
  41. Danny
  42. Red Ted
  43. Teddy Boo
  44. Teddy
  45. Philip
  46. Teddy
  47. Bobo
  48. Checky
  49. Teddy
  50. Teddy Gilligan
  51. Spotty
  52. Teddy
  53. Teddy Bear
  54. The Ted Family
  55. George
  56. Ted
  57. Beary
  58. Patsy
  59. Bookie
  60. Floppy
  61. Daddy Bunny
  62. Teddy
  63. Bear
  64. Teddy
  65. Bunny and Rabby
  66. Mr. Ted / Johnny’s Bear
  67. Bunny