Geddes, Anne

Until Now

Sleeping angels. Flower fairies. Woodland nymphs and watermelon seeds. Anne Geddes's magical world is populated by hundreds of beautiful, chubby babies and gorgeous children dressed as peapods, pansies, peonies, and pearls. Geddes fans will be thrilled by Until Now, a lush, coffee-table-sized, 10-year retrospective of Geddes's work, including 1991's crowd-pleasing "Cabbage Kids," featured on calendars and coffee mugs everywhere, as well as many previously uncollected shots from Geddes's New Zealand studio.

It's not all costumes, though--the 1997 portrait of Caleb, 3 weeks old, is a beautiful, unretouched close-up of the sweetly sleeping newborn, belly-button still poking out and skin peeling. A portrait only a mother could love? Hardly. Caleb's perfect little sleeping face would evoke maternal feelings from a stone. Particularly fun and often touching are Geddes's notes at the back of the book. For example, of "Rebecca," she writes, "How do you get a 14-month-old to sit still? Show her the jelly bean, and then put it down her trousers." The resulting photograph is of a lovely, mop-headed, tummy-grabbing toddler peering intently at her own navel. Incorporating both rich color and black-and-white photographs, Until Now will delight parents, grandparents, and baby-lovers of all sizes. --Rebecca A. Staffel

Anne Geddes' photographs of babies have charmed countless fans for many years. In Until Now, Geddes takes us behind the scenes to find out what she was thinking when she captured these images, her 113 most-favorite photographs. Her text also provides a background to each photograph and helps readers understand how this artist and her subjects work together.Consider, for example, Geddes' comments about the shot she captured in 1991, which she titled "Rebecca": "She didn't want to hold the tulips, and she didn't want to sit on the chair-there were too many other things to be done. How do you get a 14-month-old to sit still' Show her the jelly bean, and then put it down her trousers."From signature photos of newborns to touching interactions between parent and child to enthusiastic poses from older children, this gift-size hardcover edition of Until Now gathers together Geddes' most revealing and compelling work. Whether she's posing babies in the garden or in the studio, Anne Geddes' deep affection for babies and children is obvious in the award-winning images she creates.

Anne Geddes: My Pregnancy Wall Calendar (Anne Geddes)

Undated for use from the start of a pregnancy at any time of the year, this forty-two-week calendar provides space for recording prenatal appointments and pregnancy milestones and offers advice and guidance for the mother-to-be. Anne's photos on each spread add to the keepsake quality.

My First Five Years - Fairy Edition (Baby Record Book)

Anne's new fairy imagery complements this new edition of My First Five Years, conveying a love of children on every page. Includes many special details, like a tiny envelope to keep a lock of hair, height and weight charts to track growth through the years, and plenty of room to add your child's own photos and mementos.

The perfect place to record all the special moments and milestones from birth to age five, My First Five Years-Fairy Edition features a new, easy-to-use concealed wire binding.

Anne Geddes: Perpetual Birthday Calendar

Anne Geddes Birthday Perpetual Calendar

Miracle: A Celebration of New Life

Never before have two top artists created such a multimedia work to honor the unique and steadfast bond between mother and child. Vocalist Celine Dion and photographer Anne Geddes conceived Miracle as a way to express something deep within their own hearts, and now both the experience and the outcome will delight music and visual art fans throughout the world.Miracle features more than 100 stunning new Geddes images. Each frame reflects the beauty, grace, and magic of both the photographer and her subject. Babies enfolded in blooms, mothers embracing the life flowering within: Anne's artistic eye captures it all. The exquisite images are wedded with the lyrics to all-new songs by Dion, created and performed on the book-accompanying CD in Celine's unmistakable international superstar style. It's easy to hear how her clear and melodious voice has captivated millions throughout her career. A DVD rounds out this artistic package, exploring the genesis of the Miracle project and taking its audience behind the scenes to witness the making of this memorable production. Celine's title track music video highlights the DVD.As a complement to this many-faceted experience, Sony Music will release its stand-alone Dion CD concurrent with the book's debut. AMP is delighted to play a role in bringing this important collaboration to readers and listeners, providing a crossover experience rivaled by few others. Mothers, grown children, grandmothers, friends, and gift givers everywhere will want to join this celebration of wonder.

Labor of Love: An Autobiography

Anne Geddes' A Labor of Love: Anne Geddes A Biography reveals the events, emotions, and images that have shaped Anne's life. Her personal story melds with her extraordinary body of work to reinforce the inherent message behind her imagery: PROTECT, NURTURE, LOVE.

· Beginning with early childhood memories and continuing through her remarkable 25-year career, A Labor of Love: Anne Geddes A Biography is part autobiography, part retrospective—and entirely captivating.

· Anne reflects, through anecdotes and observations, on some of her most recognized images: how she painstakingly set the elaborate scenes, carefully selected the props, and ultimately, created magic. A Labor of Love: Anne Geddes A Biography also includes interesting follow-ups with the subjects of some of her iconic photographs and images from her best-selling works, Down in the Garden, Until Now, Pure, and Miracle.

Author's web site: www.annegeddes.com/

Down in the Garden: My Pregnancy Journal

Down In The Garden

Do you believe in fairies? If so, this book will delight you. "It wasn't produced for someone who isn't a believer in things magical," observes photographer Anne Geddes, who clearly is. What is also abundantly clear is that she appreciates the charm of babies and small children, and the role that fantasy plays in their young lives. Her tiny models become fairies, gnomes, sunflowers, water lilies, field mice, ladybugs, and peas in a pod in this amusing and endearing volume.

Babies as snoozing hedgehogs. Babies as beatific butterflies. Babies as tiny fairies dwelling in a magical garden. These are the inhabitants of Anne Geddes' gorgeous book Down in the Garden, an extraordinary ode to tiny babies and the enchantment they bring to life.In Geddes' Down in the Garden, the world-famous photographer has captured newborns in a variety of mythical poses: brightly colored flowers with babies peeking out from behind them, sleeping babies snuggled inside bright green peapods, sprightly gnomes with darling baby faces. All come together to make Geddes' Down in the Garden an artistic masterpiece unlike any other.This small hardcover edition of Down in the Garden features all the striking images from the internationally best-selling full-size volume in a more intimate, gift-size package. Complemented by gently humorous text, the images in Down in the Garden reflect Geddes' appreciation for the beauty and innocence of babies. Her unique imagery immediately communicates her deep and abiding love of children in a universal language understood by people everywhere.

Thoughts With Love For Mother

Thoughts with Love for Mothers and Thoughts with Love for the New Baby bring Anne Geddes' extraordinary images of babies to a traditional gift-book format for the first time. With stunning photos taken from Geddes' larger volume Little Thoughts with Love, these special collections are sure to become treasured keepsakes. Each features inspirational quotes and homilies from writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and H. Jackson Brown Jr., combined with Geddes' distinctive award-winning images. A wide-eyed tot peeks out from inside a dewy rose opposite Shakespeare's quotation "What's in a name' That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." H. Jackson Brown Jr., reminds us, "Kiss your children good night, even if they are already asleep," beside a pair of winged angelic infants slumbering on a cloud. These special collections are the perfect size to give to a mother-to-be, a new mom, or anyone who enjoys beautifully timeless images of children.

Cherished Thoughts with Love

A baby is magic. But a baby in Anne Geddes's work is simply out of this world. One of the most respected and successful photographers working today, Anne Geddes mixes photography, imagery, and imagination in a way that truly captures the innocence and essence of children. In her images we see new life for all it is-and all it can be.

Now comes Cherished Thoughts with Love, the follow-up to one of Anne Geddes' best-selling titles, Little Thoughts of Love. Cherished Thoughts combines the beautiful images that first appeared in Until Now and Pure with a special selection of poignant quotations about childhood, family, and the unmatchable bond between a mother and her baby. This is a book about new beginnings, tiny miracles, and futures rich with promise.

Cherished Thoughts with Love offers proof, once again, that Anne Geddes has both the eye and the ability to convey these rich themes like no one else. Her books take readers into a different world, a place where comfort and joy flow from every page.