Branded Youth: and Other Stories

I've seen other reviews that say this book is just photographs and doesn't have many stories and so the title is misleading; however, I don't agree with this opinion. This book has a series of monographs by the infamous photographer Bruce Weber. This may not be of everyone's cup of tea but, as a university photography student, I found this book amazing. It has a great combination of stories from various authors and photographs taken by Weber. It may be that people don't fully understand the work but I would encourage them to take time reading the stories and taking in the excellent photography. This may not be a book for someone who doesn't care for photography but if, like me, you have a great passion for photography I think you will really benefit from taking in the entirety of the book. Within the book there is various monographs so at a quick glance the photographs may seem random but once you get your head stuck in this book and notice the introductory titles to each series you will fully understand what the photographs mean and can further interpret your ideas of the book. This book is a photobook and it takes time to look at, it's not fictional and may not interest everyone but I, personally, found it very intriguing.

This book does not really have many stories, it has lots of pictures! I think that the title is misleading.And as some of his books, this book has lots of random pictures. Some are good, some are not. Quite a few are homoerotic. Among all the pictures, there are about two male frontal nudities.This is just like a typical abercrombie and fitch magazine, and it has stories instead of clothes that they want to sell to you.

I first borrowed this book in the library. I love the the pictures, they are so amazing, i mean i don't look into Bruce Weber's work that much, but man, he captures really beautiful images, its like damn! And it is not just the pictures, the little stories as well, i always read them when i travel to school or home. The poem in this book; "Wing" by Patti Smith was like woah, damn, i mean that shiz was deep! that i had to share this poem to everyone.When i had to return this book back to the library's due date, i refused, i mean the book was that good, good enough that my overdue fine was £40, hahaha.Anyway i finally returned the library's copy and finally brought my own copy off of amazon.