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Baronio, Joyce; Dunas, Jeff; Farber, Robert; Kratochvil, Antonin; Mapplethorpe, Robert; Others.
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY.
Los Angeles, CA:
Melrose Publishing,
1984.
Hardcover.
First Edition/First Printing.
Unpaginated.
As New.
Signed. Landmark collection of male, female, and couple nudes by some of the leading American photographers of the genre. Published in a small and limited print run that did not exceed 1000 copies and originally intended as the Inaugural Issue of an ongoing series. A stunningly beautiful production by Jeff Dunas and Melrose Publishing: Oversize-volume format. Black silk cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and red titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors. Matching black pictorial slipcase. Removable original photographic print by Jeff Dunas lightly pasted on the front free endpaper, as issued. Printed on thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents the finest and most representative nudes ever made by some of its best practitioners in the United States: Joyce Baronio, Chris Callis, Phillip Dixon, Jeff Dunas, Robert Farber, Larry Dale Gordon, Mitchel Gray, Art Kane, Antonin Kratochvil, Stan Malinowski, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ken Marcus, Richard Noble, and Peter Strongwater. Although intended as the first volume in a continuing series, the project began and ended with this first volume, making it instantly collectible. A landmark publication. This copy is prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the front free endpaper by the principal photographer/coordinator of the project, Jeff Dunas. The detachable original photographic print by Dunas is laid into the page and also signed by him. The print is of the very highest quality and is suitable for framing. This title has been out-of-print for a very long time. This is one of very few copies still available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A very scarce signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color reproductions and 1 original color print. Some of the most accomplished American photographers of the 20th century. A flawless collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JEFF DUNAS, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, AND ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0394542487. $250.00 |
