Softcover. East Sussex, Ammonite Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. London, Pavilion, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear and curling to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout. Includes DVD. Genius innovators in haute couture, AP have commissioned Mike Figgis to portray Kate Moss in her first acting role, resulting in four unique films: "Shadows", "Scale", "Exhibitionist and "Narcissus" - "The 4 Dreams of Miss X". Shot in night vision, these films are intensely intimate: a beautiful woman's private dream experiences.
Hardcover. New York, Graphis Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 106 pages, 45 full-page nude photographs by the Hungarian-born photographer Ferenc Berko, who worked in in Aspen Colorado since 1949. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. New York, Graphis Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 106 pages, 45 full-page nude photographs by the Hungarian-born photographer Ferenc Berko, who worked in in Aspen Colorado since 1949. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the 1950's Bettie Page left modeling in New York for the beautiful sunshine state of Florida and met up with the female photographer Bunny Yeager. Bunny was a icon in her own right as a trail blazing model turned pin up photographer of the 1950's. The outdoor beach and jungle girl photos of Bettie seem timeless as though they were taken yesterday. Bunny said "I took Bettie out of chains and into the sun light". Bunny's pictures are fun, playful and innocent and captures the real Bettie and her girl next door quality.
Hardcover. General Publishing Group, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. The ultimate girl-next-door, and one of the most popular Playboy centerfolds, Bettie Page challenged the conservative 1950s, posing as a fierce dominatrix, and earning both a cult underground following and a Senate Committee investigation. This book chronicles Page's life and career, telling the incredible story of a woman who has left an indeliable mark on the history of popular culture. 500 photos.
Hardcover. US, Steidl; Prima edizione , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Softcover. Surrey UK, FAB Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 165 pages The Satanic Sluts are 666 of the world's most attitudinal, creative and original women, linked by a shared interest in all things dark, sexual and Satanic. Here, in a series of unique photographic portraits and personal statements, 50 elite members of the official Satanic Sluts open up their souls and their bodies to display their sexual fantasies, lusts and twisted ideologies for the first time.
Softcover. Surrey UK, FAB Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 165 pages The Satanic Sluts are 666 of the world's most attitudinal, creative and original women, linked by a shared interest in all things dark, sexual and Satanic. Here, in a series of unique photographic portraits and personal statements, 50 elite members of the official Satanic Sluts open up their souls and their bodies to display their sexual fantasies, lusts and twisted ideologies for the first time.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. Alessandro Bertolotti's unrivalled collection of books on nudes, amassed over thirty years, allows us to explore the history of photographic creations, from the first academic snapshots all the way up to the most audacious avant-gardists. Organized chronothematically, and accompanied by sociocultural analyses, this work presents over 160 books, from the celebrated to the obscure, and includes all the photographers who made nudes famous: Germaine Krull, Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, Bill Brandt, Araki, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pierre Molinier, Jean Saudek, and Jean-Loup Sieff. Each book is presented with its original cover and a selection of photographs laid out on double-page spreads. With over four hundred reproductions,Books of Nudesis an important reference work for every amateur photographer. Paying tribute to the innovative and often ostentatious layout of these publications, this title is also a must-have for anyone passionate about graphic design.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Few photographers have spanned the genres from photojournalism to true artistic endeavor as completely as Bill Brandt. Yet Brandt's journalism was never strictly reportage; all his work reflected a clear artistic purpose. His qualities as an artist were never better expressed than in his series of nudes, photographed in the studio and on location over a period of thirty-five years. He published that work in two justly famous books: Perspective of Nudes (1961) and Bill Brandt Nudes (1980). Now the oeuvre has been brought together in a single volume in Brandt Nudes. This book reflects Brandt's original selection and organization of the images. Each of the sections is introduced with a succinct and revealing essay on the work by Mark Haworth-Booth. 142 duotone illustrations
Softcover. US, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. A treasure trove of pin-up girl images from photographer Bunny Yeager, celebrated for her playfully erotic photos of Bettie Page that continue to influence photography and fashion today. The only woman pin-up photographer of her day, Bunny Yeager was also a model in her own right. After winning several beauty pageants in Miami, Yeager went to photography school, and in 1955, she hit the jackpot with her shot of Bettie Page scantily clad in a Santa hat, which sold instantly to the fledgling Playboy magazine. The beginning of a long collaboration, her photographs of Bettie have now been featured on more magazine covers than those of Marilyn Monroe. This glamorous volume gathers more than a hundred lens-fogging photographs embodying the naughty girl-next-door eroticism of pin-up culture. Culled from Yeager's extensive archive, the collection includes her most iconic shots of the legendary Bettie as well as many previously unpublished images. Yeager's pioneering self-portraits and excerpts from her charming 1960s how-to manuals are featured alongside dozens of wholesome beauties shot in the studio and on location. A fun and sexy book, it is sure to tap into the current burlesque trend and the popularity of glamour photography and vintage American culture.
Softcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Color photos throughout. Before Bunny Yeager was old enough to be one, she fantasized about becoming a Pin-Up girl. She realized her dream and much more. After building a successful modeling career, she moved behind the camera, in the 1950s, to become one of the most renowned glamour photographers in the world. Her work has appeared in magazines, calendars, posters, and several books. This book is a celebration of all the emancipated young women with beautiful faces and figures who posed for her in the 1950s, just as she embarked on her career as a professional photographer. There are nearly 200 photographs, all reproduced as Bunny took them, including full color and beautiful black and white works. This book will delight aficionados of the Pin-Up, historians of photography, and admirers of the human form. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Portland, Or., Collectors Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout with portraits of vintage burlesque dancers in color and b&w. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover 192 pages. On September 25, 1890, the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so, he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral elements of their belief system for national acceptance, the Mormons recreated themselves as model Americans. Mary Campbell tells the story of this remarkable religious transformation in Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image. One of the church's favorite photographers, Johnson (1857-1926) spent the 1890s and early 1900s taking pictures of Mormonism's most revered figures and sacred sites. At the same time, he did a brisk business in mail-order erotica, creating and selling stereoviews that he referred to as his "spicy pictures of girls." Situating these images within the religious, artistic, and legal culture of turn-of-the-century America, Campbell reveals the unexpected ways in which they worked to bring the Saints into the nation's mainstream after the scandal of polygamy.
Hardcover. Buffalo, N.Y., Prometheus Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 137 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page and front fly leaf. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. Dancing Naked in the Material World, a unique and illuminating photo-documentary, allows us to look beyond the exotic, sometimes grimy surface of the world of striptease and into the lives of the women who perform there. The dancers, whose humanity and intelligence is graciously depicted in Marilyn Futterman's brilliant black-and-white photographs, describe in their own words how they feel about themselves, their marginal profession, and the men who support it. How does such a sexual, competitive occupation affect the self-esteem of these women? What are their fears, hopes, and ambitions? Futterman, after deciding to do a photographic series on strippers, became a waitress in one of the clubs in Atlanta, Georgia. Working with and interviewing the dancers enabled her to better understand their diverse and complex lives. She witnessed first-hand the strippers' working environment, the people met there, and the relationships between the women.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dustjacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations. Volume 5: 1970s At the Newsstand contains 460 full color pages of covers and magazine interiors and 18 chapters of information-rich text. Together with Volume 6 it forms a complete overview of men?s magazine publishing of the 1970s. With Volumes 1 through 4, these two books complete the six-volume set of Dian Hanson?s: The History of Men?s Magazines.
Hardcover. US, Taschen, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, b&w and color photographs. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w erotic photography: fetishistic activitites, BDSM, leather, whipping, strap-on, heels, sexual torture, etc. Adults only.
Softcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (86 pages), maroon illustrated wrappers. This is an album of early photographs taken of the New York red light district around 1912 by Bellocq. Friedlander took prints from the original plates for this book and they provide a fascinating documentary on bordellos at this interesting time in history. Reputedly never taking 'dirty' pictures of the girls, Bellocq confined his endeavors to recording for posterity these ladies in both clad and unclad poses. The foreword takes the form of a conversation between Friedlander and Dan Leyrer, who was also a photographer and a contemporary of Bellocq.
Hardcover. Boston/NY, Bulfinch/Little Brown, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Essay by Maria Morris Hambourg. Includes 54 tritones, 10 text illustrations and 4 gatefolds. A clean and tight near fine copy. Published in conjunction with a traveling show that ran January 14 through April 21, 2002 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Brown velvet on boards with color photo cover inset. Unpaginated (approx. 300 pages.). Fully illustrated with b/w & color plates of famous "leg man" Elmer Batters' photos. Introduction by Dian Hanson. In original brown nylon stocking, it seems it was never undone. Text in English, German & French.
Hardcover. New York, Parkstone, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages. A historical collection of erotic photos of women, most nude. B&w, sepia, some color. Very good in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.
Hardcover. np, New Texture, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 188 pages, color and b&w illustrations. A lushly-illustrated book that showcases the unique career of the blonde Swedish model and actress Eva Lynd, with text written by Eva herself or taken from conversations with her. Millions of men saw photographs of Eva taken by the best "glamour girl" photographers of the era in dozens of different bachelor magazines published in the '50s and '60s. She was also a popular artist's model for paperback covers and illustrations done for magazines in the men's adventure genre that flourished in those decades. Like new, issued w/o a dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , PowerHouse Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Every city-dweller has seen them, and ever city-dweller could list the telltale signs: the fur, the gold, the hats, the cars. They are the original macks, the original players. They are Big City pimps--the heroes of gangsta rap. Bob Adelman and Susan Hall dive headlong into their world in the classic investigative docudrama Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp, an in-depth exploration of the underworld figures that populate our streets at night. The first book of its kind, Gentleman of Leisure, originally published in 1972 and now reproduced in a facsimile edition, is a collection of photographs and interviews dramatically documenting the private life of a pimp and his prostitutes. The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty, their stories are real. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder, Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevailing prejudices: stripped of stereotype and myth, the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people embroiled in romantic dramas, with a code of behavior as intricate as the Mafia's, and a defined sense of self.
Hardcover. NY, New American Library, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos by Bob Adelman. 189 pages. The life of a pimp. Text by Hall.
Hardcover. Paris , Editions Xavier Barral, 1st , 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. One of the Polaroid's acknowledged masters, Guy Bourdin (1928-1991) brought to the medium an uncanny ability to combine the snapshot feel with a strong patina of glamour, and of course plenty of sexiness. A student of Man Ray, and best known today for his controversial fashion photography, Bourdin like his teacher often brought an edge of menace or discomfort to his eroticism, with surrealistic props and implied narratives. Like the Surrealists, he often devised ways to bisect the female form, usually by cropping out above the waist; all these traits of Bourdin's fashion photography are to be found here, in this selection of 98 Polaroids, most of which have never previously been published.
Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. Helmut Newton (1920-2004) is remembered as one of the most prolific photographers of the 20th century, channeling the sensuality and erotic power of his subjects with panache, precision, and impact. His aesthetic was uniquely his, while at the same time establishing a new way of photographing fashion and glamour. Joining TASCHEN's illustrious collection of Helmut Newton titles, including Helmut Newton: Polaroids, Pages from the Glossies, and the spectacular Helmut Newton: SUMO, this fresh edition of Helmut Newton: Work spans an impressive stretch of Newton's career, including some of his most striking shots from the '60s through to his golden heyday. From shadowy street to hotel boudoir, it's a collection that showcases Newton's suggestive storytelling throughout his fashion, editorial, or personal pictures.
Hardcover. US, Taschen, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Taken between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, this selection of Newton fashion editorials-one of the first books he ever published-is accompanied by journal entry-style texts by Newton providing anecdotes and describing the circumstances of each shoot. On every page is evidence of Newton's groundbreaking vision that transformed fashion photography-an influence that can still be seen today in the pages of the greatest fashion magazines.
Hardcover. New York , Goliga, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, hardcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 191 pages. Black and white and color photos throughout. A look at high heels in fashion and fashion photography, with several essays focusing on fetishism and photography. With an interview with Manolo Blahnik, among others. Many high fashion and art photos throughout of women in high heels, including nude photos.
Hardcover. New York, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Dey Street Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover with laminated cover boards. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear and rubbing to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Collins Design, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 color plates of female celebrities, photographed as Vargas-style pin-ups. including Gina Gershon, Kate Hudson, Susan Sarandon, Molly Sims, Vanessa Williams, and many more . . . Red slipcase, in publisher's slipcase.
Hardcover. Takarajima Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 119 pages. The female nude has long been an important subject for photographer Gibson, but in earlier books, his nudes appeared as elements in sequences of all kinds of images. With Infanta, Gibson abandons the sequencing, presenting instead a collection of big, rather simplified black-and-white images. Like Lee Friedlander in his Nudes (1991), in middle age Gibson expresses an intense fascination with the bodies of young women. Whereas Friedlander used the camera to awkwardly describe specific details, Gibson uses his to idealize beautiful body fragments. Gibson's high-contrast, grainy printing style and abstract compositions have hardly changed in two decades. Alexandra Anderson-Spivy's accompanying essay perceptively responds to Gibson's work, but Mary Gaitskill's vulgar afterword (the memoir of a stripper) seems jarringly inappropriate to the idealism of the photographs.
Hardcover. New York , Universe, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Approximately 100-150 full page and double page b&w and color intimate photos of female nudes. Large format. The award-winning and renowned photographer behind the lens of Beautiful, Marc Baptiste offers us another very intimate look at women. Baptiste's inspired, unique, and sensual classicism is bolder than ever in Intimate. Surpassing standard portraiture, his photographs manifest a strong eroticism while incorporating the cinematic power of his fashion work.
Hardcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, color photographs by Janes. What is burlesque? Who better to ask than burlesque performers themselves? With this question in mind, the author traveled over 14,000 miles across the United States visiting today's burlesque performers, photographing them in their homes, and asking them: "What does burlesque mean to you?" Their answers and 104 accompanying portraits may surprise you. For these performers, burlesque is so many things, including fun and empowerment on stage, an escape from life's doldrums, a fantasy, a career. This book also presents a study in contrasts between the public persona of each performer and that performer's private life.
Softcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Full color photographs by jan Saudek. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Munchen GR, Taschen, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 80 pages. b&w photographs. Text and erotic photography by Jeanloup Sieff, in German, English and French language. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Quartet Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. A great collection of photographs , mainly taken in and around a bordello in Mexico , during the years 1900-1915 They are very reminiscent of the bordello photographs that Ernest J. Bellocq took in New Orleans during the twenties. Ava Vargas , the compiler of these photographs, masterfully restored the original glass plates , and also managed to get them reproduced on the good quality paper of this enjoyable book.
Hardcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in b&w. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. From the legendary David Bailey comes this collection of photographs - a tribute to his wife, the model Catherine Bailey. Divided into five sections - nudes, fashion, pregnancy, children and beauty - these images capture her in different incarnations, as wife, mother, lover, seductress...and as tramp. The text is provided by Fay Weldon, a close friend of both David and Catherine Bailey. She explores the relationship between the photographer and his wife, and wider themes such as the interaction of commerce and art, the status of photography as a "real" art-form and the different ways men and women see the world.
Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 color photos. An insightful look into a world most of us never see. Beasley captures natural and spontaneous moments that at times were shocking and sensitive towards the subject matter. As a veteran stripper, she looks wisely at her own experience working as a lapdancer. The book is also interspersed with sincere interviews with customers and dancers. throughout the book. The result is a sometimes surprising, often revealing (both mentally and physically) and always a brutally honest portrait of a lap dancer's life.
Hardcover. New York, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 168 pages. 84 black and white photos. Edited by: Sharon Helgason Gallagher. "Lee Friedlander`s exploration of one of photography`s most enduring genres began almost by chance, in the late 1970s, when a teacher colleague at Rice University in Houston lined up a regular schedule of nude models for his students. Almost immediately, Friedlander found that he preferred to photograph the models at their homes, and ingeniously deployed household objects such as bedside lamps, potted plants and sofa fabrics to play off against the angular poses of the models and the emphatic framing of the overall composition. "
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. A sequel to "The Body", this volume contains over 300 images, discovered during a lifetime's discriminating research into a century and a half of photography. They represent love and desire in all its many forms: the love of parents for their children and vice versa; the love between men and women; between men; between women. There is forbidden love. There is love as a saleable commodity and love as a symbol of absolute generosity. There is love of the body and love of the divine. Sex, affection, adoration, adulation; all these words have their visual equivalents in these images.
