Edie Factory Girl
by David Dalton
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Author: David DaltonPhotographer: Nat Finkelstein
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-24
ISBN: 1576873463
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: VH1 Press
Book Reviews of Edie Factory Girl
Book Review: Overtime at the Factory
Summary: 1 Stars
As I've stated in a few of my reviews, I'm a huge Edie Sedgwick fan, so any book with Edie in it will automatically be bought and poured over endlessly. Now, I wanted to like this book. I really, really did, but some of the text is off putting and only dampens the whole spirit of Edie. Most die-hard Edie fans know that there are two camps of people who had the privilege of knowing Edie and who are still alive and kicking. For what I'm sure are a myriad of reasons, both camps loathe each other. Not surprisingly, each camp released a book that was perfectly timed with the released of the Sienna Miller (unintentional) disaster flick "Factory Girl". Some of that distaste (or feud, if you will) comes through in this book which makes for an uncomfortable vibe. There's so few people who made it through that era alive that it's quite disappointing that they all can't just put their petty differences aside and quit the one-upmanship game.
Edie wasn't a figure to be wholly admired, but I don't think she was figure to be mocked or ridiculed either. She had her problems and she wasn't perfect. None of us are. She may very well have been a vapid little thing, but I don't think anyone who lived their life as unapologetically and open as she did should dismissed. In my opinion, that's what this book does. I don't think anyone who takes the time to write or at the very least contribute to a book about a person should dislike them. They should have some affection for the subject and that just doesn't come through here which leaves me wondering why the book was released to begin with. The pictures are fantastic, but as others have stated, they've been seen and released countless times before. Again, I wanted to like this book, but aside from a few rude and thoughtless comments and a few (and I mean a few!) unseen photos, this book doesn't have a whole lot to offer.
Summary of Edie Factory Girl
She was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living distillation of the over-amped vision of New York in the mid-sixties. Like many exotic creatures that Andy Warhol shed his light on, she initially bloomed?became the symbol for all that was hip and stylish?and just as quickly began to disintegrate. Told with unsparing candor, and with images that capture her at the peak of her Factory stardom, Edie Factory Girl is the short but enduring cultural story of Edie Sedgwick?releasing in time for the film of the same name starring Sienna Miller, and including rare photos of Miller as Edie.David Dalton was just a teen when he became one of Warhol?s first assistants, and was present for the arrival of Edie: witnessing her rise, her Factory superstardom, and subsequent unraveling. Like an anthropologist thrown together with a tribe of ?wild? people, Nat Finkelstein entered the Factory just as Warhol was emerging as the supreme catalyst of the sixties. Among the freaky menagerie, Nat found Andy?s misbegotten princess the most fascinating and enigmatic character of her time, and with a compassionate lens recorded her fragile, fleeting beauty. Edie Factory Girl is a privileged glimpse into Warhol?s inner sanctum, via revealing interviews with intimates, friends, and scenesters, in which Edie orbits around the likes of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Betsey Johnson, Lou Reed, Judy Garland, and many more, before departing as quickly as she came.
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