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Hugh Hefner, Paul Theroux, Jay McInerney, Daphne Merkin
Schirmer Mosel, 2007
For the first time in 50 years of Playboy history, this Limited Collector's Edition book gathers all Playboy Centerfolds from 1950 to the 2000s. 600 models are pictured, including stars such as Jayne Mansfield, Stella Stevens, Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith and Jenny McCarthy.
Foreword by Hugh Hefner himself, and commentaries from Paul Theroux, Jay McInerney, and Daphne Merkin.
This book, in perfect condition, is kept in a lockable leather suitcase, which shows slight signs of wear around the corners.
English - 720 Pages - 63 x 11 x 33 cm - 13.5 KgISBN 9783829603317
Collectif
Universe, 2003
Curve: The Female Nude Now disrobes the female form once again to survey her most current representations. Whatever the medium - painting, sculpture, video, performance, or installation - the images in this book illustrate how contemporary explorations of the subject continue to yield an unprecedented and often unexpected range of ideals, metaphors, and personalities. While some artists continue to pay homage to the beauty of the female form, others have more complex agendas, straddling unsettling lines between shallowness and depth, or exploring and commenting on personal and political freedom. The waifish young women of one artist's oeuvre contrast sharply with the plump, luscious figures that inhabit another's. Even inspiration knows no boundaries; as modern works reference Old Master paintings and males and females alike draw on the kinky world of contemporary pornographic magazines. Featuring approximately 275 fresh and provocative images from over 90 of today's most prominent and often controversial artists, Curve: The Female Nude Now reveals the power and permanence of this seductive subject matter.
English - 208 Pages - 21.6 cm x 1.8 cm x 25.9 cm - 0.7 Kg
ISBN: 9780789308719
Gretchen Edgren
Taschen, 2005
Avec elles, Play-Boy est devenu l'un des plus célèbres magazines de son époque, un phénomène culturel très discuté suscitant à la fois l'admiration et la réprobation comme baromètre de l'ambivalence de la morale sexuelle américaine. En plus d'avoir enrichi le vocabulaire des Américains d'un mot nouveau - Centerfold - les Playmates du Mois de Hefner ont enflammé l'imagination de millions de lecteurs à travers le monde pendant plus d'un demi-siècle. Elles sont toutes là, au fil des pages : une collection historique de 613 magnifiques Playmates, de l'inoubliable Marilyn Monroe, dans le premier numéro de Playboy en décembre 1953, à la charmante Tiffany Fallon, Miss décembre 2004 (et Playmate de l'Année 2005).
472 Pages - French - 23.5 cm x 4 cm x 33 cm - 2.8 Kg
ISBN: 9783822843857
Ingrid Sischy, Ellen von Unwerth
Taschen, 2015
Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Now one of the world’s most original and successful fashion photographers, she pays homage to the world’s most delectable females in Fräulein. This celebration of our era’s sexiest female icons includes Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis, Britney Spears, Eva Mendes, Lindsay Lohan, Dita Von Teese, Adriana Lima, Carla Bruni, Eva Green, Christina Aguilera, Monica Bellucci and dozens more. Switching effortlessly between color and immaculate black and white, von Unwerth’s photography revels in sexual intrigue, femininity, romance, fetishism, kitsch humor, decadence, and sheer joie de vivre. Whether nude or in lingerie and a dazzling smile, her subjects are never objectified.These images were shot over the last 15 years and many are previously unpublished.
Collector’s Edition, limited to 1,500 numbered copies, each signed by the photographer
482 Pages - English - 30.5 x 44 cm - 10 kg
ISBN: N/A
Robert Mapplethorpe
Arena Editions, 2001
The early 1970s witnessed the emergence and convergence of body art, performance, earth art, video, narrative, and photography-based art that sought to break the stronghold of minimalism (an art of pure form and materials) and conceptualism (the art of pure idea). In this context, Robert Mapplethorpe was an artist who infused art with personal reference, subjective expression, and allusion to real time and emotion. Mapplethorpe's earliest and most frequent subject was himself, in various guises, activities, and states of arousal that celebrated his ego, his body, and his sexual desires. The subject of nudity, sex, and self was a primary focus in Mapplethorpe's work. The black-and-white Polaroid photographs that Mapplethorpe produced during the early 1970s constitute an in-depth self-portrait, intently and graphically exploring expressions, moods, postures, and actions that range from angelic and innocent to sinister and erotic. Autoportrait, the first publication dealing exclusively with Mapplethorpe's self-portrait Polaroids, presents the artist's most revealing attempts to wed the erotic and sexual with other theoretical concerns.
English - 144 Pages - 21 cm x 1.9 cm x 25.4 cm - 0.6 Kg
ISBN: 9781892041418