This book takes you on a photographic voyage through my life so far. ndash;Keegan AllenKeegan Allen is currently known to fans of the ABC Family hit television series; Pretty Little Liars. He has also appeared in numerous independent films and made his New York Stage debut in the acclaimed MCC production of Small Engine Repair.Keegan was given his first camera at age nine; and began a lifelong study and pursuit of photography. life.love.beauty is a selection of photographs taken since his childhood. Its a photo journey through the life of an intensely creative soul whose expression finds various forms: in acting; in poems and stories; lyrics and music; but above all in photography. This books content resonates in the commonality we all share on our own journeys while unveiling an inside look into a world that very few experience.Organized into three broad groupsmdash;life; love; and beautymdash;the book ranges over the public and private side of Keegan Allen and his world. A child of Hollywood; whose father was also an actor and his mother a painter; Keegan roams freely through that realm; photographing his fellow actors on set; behind the scenes; and recording the amazed; gleeful; sometimes weeping fans that flock to his television and career related events.Allen also has an eye for the anonymous and the unexpected: the woman gazing dreamily from the balcony of a run-down hotel; the rifle-toting dog walker who seems to have emerged from the 19th century; the performers and denizens of Venice Beach and also the streets of New York; some of them chasing the dream of fame; others having long-since abandoned it; the little boy amid in the crowd in an enormous airport; portraits of lovers kissing on subways; in parks; and on the streets. Traveling from California to New York to Paris and back; as well as through the American west; he finds beauty in both urban and rural places: from large-scale landscapes to glimpses of light transforming what it touches.Keegans poems; stories; captions and musings; song lyrics; and journal pages complement the photographs on this journey. He provides an account of growing up just off the Sunset Strip; coming into his own as an actor/artist; dealing with public recognition while maintaining a very private life; falling in and out of love; and acknowledging the influence of his family; friends; fans; and loved ones.life.love.beauty is an unusually intimate and revealing book: a delight for anyone who values photography; and a gift for the many fans who already follow Keegans career.Keegans real passion comes through in both his photographs and candid story telling in this unique photo-journal.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Vital Addition to Your Spokane History BookshelfBy LarryCI just finished this book and it is quite good. George looks at the theater scene in Spokane from 1880-1910 or so (with a bit on the transition to moving pictures in the 1910s). The book is not so much about what happens on stage as it is about how Spokanites consumed and fought about theater. For most of this period there is a sharp divide. Highbrow theater included things like opera and Shakespeare; was attended by respectable people including middle-class women; and took place at the fancy theaters like the Auditorium. Lowbrow theater was often variety theater shows that included scantily-dressed women and blue humor; was attended by working men (and sometimes middle class men whose wives thought they were somewhere else) and was way more popular than highbrow theater. Alcohol was served at the variety theaters; usually by female barmaids who sometimes had other favors for sale as well. Ministers were constantly organizing to try and ban variety theaters; and were defeated again and again by downtown business owners and workers.There is more here as well--the business arrangements of theater and how they change during this period; local theater companies and how they tried to stay respectable; and the small local movie industry in the 1910s and 20s.There are only a handful of deeply-researched; footnoted books on Spokane history so it is great to see another. This is not a popular history book like Boys in the Boat or Breaking Blue; it is not a page-turner; but if you research and write about local history in this time period this is an important book. I recommend it.
