Title: Did D'Orazio shoot blanks?
Product review: Arena Editions sends us a handful of photos that were not already printed in "Sante D'Orazio A Private View" from Penguin Studio. Along with the new few, we get lots of repeats. But to make up for offering not much new, Arena provides 3 color images, a few duotones, and lots of lifeless black and white reproductions, with all the interesting commentary from Private View stripped away. If you want commentary, though, perhaps you can write it yourself on the dozens of incomprehensibly blank pages. This layout suggests the publishers forgot to make printing plates for a third of the images, then said, "Ah, the heck with it," when they discovered the error. "A Private View" is fun, high-energy beauty. This ain't.
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