Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:57 am Post subject: 07SEP2005 Boston Herald - Tyler *added pic 13SEP2005
Boston Herald
Inside Track
September 7,2005
Brett's signature work
Boston photographer Bill Brett is on a one-man marathon to collect hundreds of prominent Bostonians' John Hancocks in the next three weeks. Good thing they're All One Family!
Brett's book "Boston: All One Family,'' 240 black and white portraits of the city's movers and shakers, debuts Sept. 27, and he plans to have three copies autographed by every one of his living subjects ready for a book-launch bash.
"One copy is going to Mass. General and they will auction it at their Storybook Ball Sept. 26,'' the longtime Boston Globe snapper told the Track. "I have another copy for the Boston Public Library and the third is for my kids.''
The book, featuring a cover portrait of the city's last three mayors, Tom Menino, Ray Flynn and Kevin White, is "humanity in its Boston form,'' "Spenser'' author Robert Parker says in the introduction.
Brett said he's been working 24/7 to gather the signatures, traveling wherever he has to go to get them.
"I drove out to Tanglewood to get (Boston Pops poohbah emeritus) John Williams,'' he said. "He sat and looked at all the pictures and said, `This is a masterpiece.' That meant a lot.''
Bill will launch his baby Sept. 27 at a swish soiree at the Museum of Fine Arts. Everyone who made the book – local notables from Denis Leary to Dennis Lehane, Steven Tyler to Seiji Ozawa and yes, even the Track – is on the guest list.
Brett reports that 35 of his subjects were cut out of the book because of space constraints. The good news is, a sequel is in the works titled "Extended Family.''
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Added 13SEP2005
Sample of pic from the book
http://pages.prodigy.net/toonses88/_uimages/13GLOBE2005TylerOrr.jpg
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Should you want copy of said book autographed by author:
http://www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org/calendar/
Thursday, November 10, 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Boston, All One Family
Boston Globe society photographer Bill Brett has been taking pictures of the city's high and mighty since the 1960s. His first book shows their human side. With unequaled access, not only to business and cultural leaders but also to the community activists and philanthropists who give Boston its heart, Brett takes us into the homes and offices of the city's leaders, and out onto the streets where they live, work, and play. In this illustrated lecture, Brett reveals nationally known leaders such as entrepreneurs Peter Lynch (former mastermind of the Magellan Fund), Tom Stemberg (founder of Staples), and the CEOs of John Hancock, Raytheon, and Biogen - as well as well-known locals - such as the owners of the oldest family funeral home in Boston, a Newbury Street "haircutter to the stars," and a beloved doorman at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Free with museum admission.
Booksigning to follow.
I'm confused I thought the boston common was a magazine? No? Every link I click on up there has the pic of steven on Boston Common, so actually that's a book? Alzheimers is a terrible thing.
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