About the Book
An insightful and intimate look at aging and masculinity that includes interviews and portraits of men from around the world.
What do men really think? From a taxi driver to a prince, a fishmonger to a professional boxer, The Other Half reveals the inner thoughts of men over fifty from different nationalities and different walks of life in their own words, illuminated by their portraits. Author and photojournalist Ellen Warner traveled the world to find out what men really think about love, work, and aging, speaking with well-known figures like film director James Ivory and journalist Bill Keller, as well as a philosopher, a chess grandmaster, a hair stylist, a financier, and more. Interviewing men from Colombia, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, and everywhere in between, Warner assembles a moving portrait of their reflections, insights, challenges, and hard-won triumphs.
A companion to The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty, Warner's latest book shares the diverse, vibrant experiences of men over fifty.
Table of Contents:
James Ivory, Born in 1928, interviewed at age 95 Film Director, Producer, and Screenwriter Claverack, New York, USA
Sean Pica, Born in 1969, interviewed at age 54 Executive Director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Ossining, New York, USA
Kewulay Kamara, Born ca. 1953, interviewed at age 70
Finah, Poet/ Storyteller, Lecturer, Taproot and Apex International Fellow, UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies and Storytell Dankawalie, Sierra Leone
Aubert de Villaine, Born in 1939, interviewed at age 84, Co-owner of Domaine de la Romane´e-Conti Burgundy, France
Gerry Cooney, Born in 1956, interviewed at age 67 Former Professional Boxer, Challenged for the World Heavyweight Title Fanwood, New Jersey, USA
Carl Gustaf Wachtmeister, Born in 1949, Interviewed at age 74 Count, Retired Manager and Owner of Wana°s Family Estate Wana°s, Knislinge, Sweden
Jose´ Manuel Santaella, Born in 1960, interviewed at age 63 Hair Stylist New York City, USA
Zephyros Kafkalides, Born in 1948, interviewed at age 75 Philosopher Corfu and Patmos, Greece
George Votis, Born in 1961, interviewed at age 62 Musician, Entrepreneur, Palm Beach and New York City, USA
Turki Al-Faisal, Born in 1945, interviewed at age 79 HRH, Chairman of the King Faisal Foundation Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Former Head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency, Former Ambassador to the USA and to the UK and Ireland Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Michael Curry, Born in 1953, interviewed at age 72 Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Germa´n Jaramillo, Born in 1952, interviewed at age 72 Actor and Director Bogota´, Colombia Alessandro Corsini, Born in 1957, interviewed at age 64 Financier, Director of Corsini Botanical Garden and Cultural Center Porto Ercole, Italy
Manolis Maravelias, Born in 1943, interviewed at age 79 Yacht Captain Patmos, Greece
Peter Georgescu, Born in 1939, interviewed at age 86 Chairman Emeritus of Young & Rubicam, Author New York, New York, USA
Julian Birch, Born in 1950, interviewed at age 74 Fishmonger Colchester, Suffolk, England
Henri d’Origny, Born in 1933, interviewed at age 90 Retired Artistic Director at Herme`s Paris, France
Arthur Denaro, Born in 1948, interviewed at age 76 CBE, Retired Major General, Commandant of Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Herefordshire, England
Marty Alegria, born in 1966, interviewed at age 59 Vaquero (Cowboy) Riviera, Texas
Pierre Bismuth, Born in 1944, interviewed at age 79 Statistician Economist, VP HR and Senior Advisor at Schlumberger Paris, France and New York, USA
Maximilian Meran, Born in 1930, Interviewed at age 94 Former Chairman of Bank fu¨r Ka¨rnten & Steiermark Klagenfurt, Austria William Christie, Born in 1944, interviewed at age 78, Conductor, Founder of Les Arts Florissants, Member of the Acade´mie Franc¸aise Paris, France
Tony Kirkham, MBE, Born in 1957, interviewed at age 66 Retired Head of Trees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew London, England
Adrian Fisher, Born in 1957, interviewed at age 65 Full Time Father and Husband, Former Transplant Surgeon Weehawken, New Jersey, USA Stokey Carmichael, Born in 1969, interviewed at age 55 Butler and Gardener Antigua, West Indies
Julian Fellowes, Born in 1949, interviewed at age 74 Lord Fellowes of West Stafford, Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Novelist, and Politician London, England
Jim Enote, Born in 1957, interviewed at age 68 Zuni Tribal Member, Farmer, Executive, Artist, and CEO of the Colorado Plateau Foundation Zuni, New Mexico, USA
Garry Kasparov, Born in 1963, Interviewed at age 61 Russian Chess Grandmaster, Political Activist and Writer New York City, USA Jafar Askari, Born in 1938, interviewed at age 86 Former CFO of Jaffali Brothers Paradou,
France Richard Parsons, Born in 1948, interviewed at age 75 Former President of The Dime Savings Bank, Chairman of Citigroup, and Chairman and CEO of Time-Warner New York City, USA
Steve Savage, Born in 1968, interviewed at age 56 Taxi Driver London, England
Colin Thubron, Born in 1939, interviewed at age 84 Travel Writer and Novelist London, England Rodney Williams, GCMG, KGN, KStJ, Born in 1947, interviewed at age 76 Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda, Previous Minister for Education, Culture and Technology, Medical Doctor St Johns, Antigua, West Indies
Peter Speliopoulos, Born in 1961, interviewed at age 62 Fashion Designer and Ceramicist New York City, USA Joen Bille, Born in 1944, interviewed at age 80, Actor, and Director Copenhagen, Denmark Bill Keller, Born in 1949, interviewed at age 76, Journalist, Former Executive Editor of the New York Times Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting London, England
Amadi Okoroafor, Born in 1966, Interviewed at age 58, Creative Director, Filmmaker Paris, France
Michel de Gre`ce, Born in 1939, Interviewed at age 84 Historian, Author Athens, Greece
Nicholas Coleridge, CBE, DL, Born in 1957, interviewed at age 67 Chairman of Historic Royal Palaces, Provost of Eton, Past Chairman Victoria and Albert Museum, Past President of Conde´ Nast International London, England
Tamur Mueenuddin, Born in 1961, interviewed at age 62 Emergency Physician in the USA and Underdeveloped Countries Charrapani, Pakistan and Elroy, Wisconsin, USA
About the Author :
Ellen Warner is the author of The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty. Her photographs have been published in newspapers and magazines and exhibited extensively. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Travel and Leisure, and The Traveler. She lives in New York City.
Review :
“Warner’s The Other Half is a soulful, probing work of portraiture and social history. It captures both what is unique and what is representative about her subjects, and her artfulness in drawing them out—men of vastly different cultures, classes, and walks of life—is one of her own greatest gifts. Portraiture is mostly a history of the “male gaze.” But here is the “female gaze” in all its empathy and power.”
“It need not be downhill from fifty. Warner’s The Other Half is a wonderfully instructive and entertaining book, highlighting as it does a very diverse group of men, from a taxi driver to a renowned film director, who have found satisfaction, fulfillment and happiness in the second half of their life, and here share their experience in making the years over fifty the best and most productive of their life.”
