AB, THE LEGEND: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S TRIBUTE (Rupa, Rs 995) is a disappointingly reverential “tribute”, combining Pradeep Chandra’s photographs of the actor with biographical commentary and “guest columns” by the likes of Pritish Nandy, Govind Nihalani and Shobhaa Dé. This is pure Page-Three Coffee-Table, and most of the writers are too much in awe of the Big B’s bigness to come up with interesting and original accounts of the man and his roles. When he is not a legend, he is an enigma. And the film stills are better photographs than Chandra’s, most of which show him as uniformly larger than life. On the left, AB is being measured for his wax statue;(middle)catches him with other eminent Mumbaikars, and bottom is a still from Guddi (1971) with Jaya Bhaduri.