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chillcox15's review against another edition
4.0
I understand why Dorothy and the team released Suite for Barbara Loden first; that's a better book to start with if you are reading Léger, but this has its high points as well.
seashelly's review
4.0
Before the lens, one might expect the exaltation of celebration, gratitude at these reunions with herself, lone site of glorification, but it is the opposite, you see in the photos that you don’t see it. Before the lens, she was just a mass of absence.
Less of a biography and more using the Countess for various reflections on looking, seeing, the ethics of being represented, the consequences of being a subject. Not a topic that made me feel much, hence the four stars instead of five, but I found it very good -- although I get why some people think some digressions are overblown.
medievaljuliana's review against another edition
4.0
A fragmentary journey into an experimental biography, an essay about photography and the self, and flashes of memoir. It’s hard to pinpoint the genre, because no two pages are the same, and that is precisely what makes it so powerful.
kylefwill's review against another edition
5.0
Full review on Full Stop: https://www.full-stop.net/2020/09/14/reviews/kyle-williams/exposition-the-white-dress-nathalie-leger/
venusdewillendorf's review
5.0
YES. A brief but brilliant little blend of theory, memoir, and prose-y abstraction about photography, the self, gender, excess, looking vs. seeing, and the desire to possess the intangible.
lene_kretzsch's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0