Until Now

by Anne Geddes

Photographs of children include babies costumed to resemble garden plants and creatures, as well as poses with adults that accent infants' size and fragility

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction, Art

264 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Anne Geddes, MNZM, is an Australian-born photographer, currently living and working in New York.
She is best known for her baby photographies and photographies on motherhood.


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Reviews

[R.K. Cowles]

3 1/2 stars

[Kelly Chester]

Love Anne Geddes book

[Mary]

This coffee-table book of infant and child photographs is beyond words!! Definitely NOT one of Geddes' more familiar "cute little smiling babies" collections, this book includes images that are starkly dramatic, wistfully poignant, and even trsgic (see below). While "Until Now" does include its share of Geddes' obligatory imaginitive photographs (babies costumed as animals or inanimate objects) and fanciful settings (the famous "Cheesecake", featuring a mugging baby couched in a bed of roses, is among them), the overall mood of this collection - many of which were photographed in black-and-white - is much more dramatic and compelling: naked, days-old newborns are surrounded by nature, lay sleeping on the flattened bellies of newly-delivered women and on backs and in the arms of sculpted made models, or fill an entire page with their beautiful and terrifying fragility; the photograph of the preemie curled up sleeping in the outstretched palm of a large man is astonishing! Even many of Geddes' imaginitive photographs are more wistful than usual; several black-and-white photos of newborns posing as deeply sleeping angels with folded wings evoke a peculiar sense of loss and sadness...made much more so by the afterword, in which we learn that two of the subjects - a year-old baby, and a beautiful eight-year-old, terminally ill girl - died shortly after their photographs were taken. Don't miss this!

[Kim]

Although the images of the infants in costumes were charming and adorable, I preferred the natural photos of parents gently holding their children. There were a couple of photos that I wondered what the hell she was thinking, but otherwise a very sweet book.

[Brenna]

Ethan's mom sent this to us. It was very sweet :)

[Mayo]

loved it!

[Rajesh]

Good.

[Barb Bailey]

Beautiful and precious!