| #436664 in Books | Harry N. Abrams | 2005-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.50 x8.38l,1.14 | File Name: 0810958864 | 96 pages |
||16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| Birds scare me.|By E. Michelle Cromer|But when I saw them dressed as Sonny, Cher, General Patton, Liberace, and/or Little Red Riding Hood I screamed all right, of absolute laughter. Arne Svenson's wonderfully respectful book on Alba Ballard is a view into the world of a unique artist who used her pet birds as the protagonists in fantastic surreal tableaus based on 1970's mov|From Publishers Weekly|It's difficult to determine what makes these snapshots of elaborately costumed parrots so weird. Is it that Long Island housewife Alba Ballard (1928-1994) felt compelled to spend years dressing up her feathered friends, or that the images
"When I'm really old and can't use myself anymore, this is what I'll be doing." -Cindy Sherman
"Not only was I enthralled with Mrs. Ballard's Parrots, I was slightly jealous that these creatures had a better sense of style than me." -Isaac Mizrahi
In the late 1960s, Long Island housewife Alba Ballard decided to sew a little outfit for one of her many pet parrots. Soon she began staging elaborate productions, casting her lavishly costumed bir...
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