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Edie: Girl on Fire
Model, film star, socialite, friend, lover, addict, Edie Sedgwick was the first "it" girl of the Andy Warhol Factory scene and later muse to Bob Dylan. The arc of Edie's life traced the rise and fall of the 1960sfrom idyllic experimentation to dissolute recklessness. After being toasted by the whole of New York City, Edie died alone of a drug overdose in California at the...more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
November 2nd 2006
by Chronicle Books
(first published November 1st 2006)
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Forgot we had this till it somehow ended up in my room last night. Wonderfully stunning collection of photographs of Edie. More a coffee table book - plus a collection of quotes and thoughts about her by people that knew her. Not a biography although it attempts to be by photos and quotes being arranged in chronological order of her short sad but glittering life. The CD is quite short - some thoughts she apparently taped at some point. Her accent reminds me of Jane Fonda for some reason, althoug...more
this is a great coffee table book. Filled with lots of pictures I had previously never seen and great quotes. If you love Edie and Warhol, this is essential to your collection.
(the cd it comes from of taped interviews with Edie is mildly disturbing because she is so very drugged out.)
(the cd it comes from of taped interviews with Edie is mildly disturbing because she is so very drugged out.)
Although it has a less than promising beginning, mainly due to bad writing on the part Weisman, Edie finds it's own rhythms in the oral history tradition and is a tragic delight. Still luminous, ever enchanted, this is Edie, the Holy Fool.
I've been searching for a good book on Edie for quite a while.
She and I share our birthday, so I bought this on our birthday as a present for myself.
Although it is super expensive, it's really amazing and doesn't disappoint.
She and I share our birthday, so I bought this on our birthday as a present for myself.
Although it is super expensive, it's really amazing and doesn't disappoint.
I enjoy reading books that have commentary on artist/muse themes. this book does.
great coffee table book. gorgeous photos of gorgeous Edie.
Thank you JP I love Edie.
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