by Simon Doonan, Neil Gaiman, Peter Getty, Robert Gluck, Penn Jillette, M. Raven Metzner, Issac Mizrahi, Dale Peck
In 1985 Ron Warren began collecting sock monkeys--those icons of American thrift and inventiveness that for generations have been hand-stitched from a pair of red-heel work socks. Years later he met photographer Arne Svenson, who, intrigued by the obsessive nature and growing size of the collection, began with equal obsession to document one by one its more than 1,800 examples. To convey the distinct personality...
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