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Behind the famous paintings, there were photographs. "I still feel guilty about it," Rockwell said more than 30 years into his career. This book Gathers Rockwell's "study" photographs "and the stories behind them. They seldom Manned the camera, but they are dressed and posed models, coaxed their facial expressions, pulled back Coats Thurs suggest wind, propped toes are books Thurs imply the act of walking. There's even a wonderful photo of him adjusting the angle of a beagle's paw (the dog gamely looks over at us and all but rolls its eyes). Most paintings are eerily true to the photos, as in 1956's "The Discovery," His Last Christmas cover for The Saturday Evening Post. In others, Rockwell changed or omitted details. They stole his mailman's Car to photograph it for the painting that appears on this book's cover. And when they hired a professional on Thurs pose nude for a work called "Mermaid," his photographer was so unnerved that they never emerged from his black focusing . READ MORE>clothttp://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/ae/articles/2009/12/06/20091206newnotable1206.html

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