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Weiermair, Peter (Editor) & Other Contributing Photographers.
THE MALE NUDE: A MALE VIEW/MALE NUDES BY WOMEN.
Zurich, Switzerland: Editions Stemmle, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. Unpaginated. As New/As New. Landmark companion-volume set on subject. Now considered a late-modern erotic photography classic. The true firsts. Precede and should not be confused with the Reissued Editions. A handsome production by Editions Stemmle: Oversize-volumes format. Hard boards with white titles printed on spine as issued. Photographs by various contributors. Essays by Peter Weiermair. Brief Biographies appended at the end. Printed on thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ's with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents the work of the leading male and female male nude photographers of our time. The collection, brilliantly brought together by Peter Weiermair, one of the leading experts on the nude, is both a "genuine anthology of male nude photography and a document of photographic history". It showcases the work of such well-known photographers as Duane Michals, Eikoh Hosoe, Christian Vogt, Will McBride, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, Arthur Tress, Jack Shear and Joel-Peter Witkin as well as such highly accomplished (if lesser-known) artist/photographers as Michael Somoroff, Paul Blanca, Dino Pedriali, George Dureau, Jan Saudek, Helmut Rottgen, and Hans van Manen, among the men. The volume on female photographers attempts to redress the imbalance brought about by the fact that the majority of photographic male nudes are done by men, for other men. That great women photographers have taken some of the finest male nude photographs is proof, if it were needed, of the interest the male body has to women. Some of the photographers represented include Dianora Niccolini, Nan Goldin, Lynn Davis, Ernestine Ruben, and Jacqueline Livingstone, who once photographed her teenage son masturbating, among so many others. The truth is, in photography, the nude is both a Classical study and a Modern voyeuristic exercise in erotic play. Here is the nude as sculptural study, as liquid fantasy, as full-frontal erotic object, photographed with discretion, sensitivity, wit, and experimental adventurousness. These are Import titles, were not commercially distributed in the United States (the publisher has since gone out of business), and are now out-of-print. This is the only such set available online and has no flaws, pristine beauties. Individual volumes are available online but many have serious flaws. A very scarce set thus. Some of the finest photographers of the male nude. A flawless collectible set. . ISBN 3905514435. $150.00 |
