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Killalpaninna Mission & Habitat: A Photographic Record of Bethesda Aboriginal Mission Station on Cooper Creek
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2022.Glass-plate photographs of the last decade of the Bethesda Lutheran mission at Lake Killalpaninna, taken by the mission teacher August Hermann Vogelsang between 1907 and 1917, privately published by the author in a very limited number, based on his 1980 report submitted to the South Australian Aboriginal and Historic Relics Unit.. “In the summer of 1866-67 the Hermannsburg Mission Society in Germany, in conjunction with the synods of the South Australian Lutheran Church, attempted to establish a mission for the Aborigines on Cooper Creek in return for their kindness to John King, a survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition. During the same period, the German Moravian Brethren Mission Society in Victoria also undertook to begin mission work in the district. Both orders were pursuing a policy of segregating newly-contacted groups of Aborigines on church-run missions where their conversion to Christianity could be achieved away from the influence of ‘bush blacks’ and white settlers. However, through ignorance, drought and religious dissent, the missions failed to flourish and were abandoned. The Moravian Brethren departed for good, but the Lutherans regrouped and returned to the district to continue their struggle. This book contains a unique collection of dry-plate glass negative images, taken by August Hermann Vogelsang while employed as the school teacher at Bethesda Lutheran mission on Cooper Creek between the years 1907 and 1917. The images have been carefully researched and described by the author with the advice and guidance of former mission residents. This is a record of the last years of Bethesda mission station at Lake Killalpaninna in the far-north salt lake country of South Australia.” (from jacket blurb)
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Dreaming of Eve
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartFritz Meisnitzer
South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1970.Black and white art nude photography of the female form.
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Emergence
AU$450 Read MoreAdd to cartCynthia MacAdams
New York: Chelsea House, 1977.Photo book of black and white portraits of women by Cynthia MacAdams. Emergence was MacAdams’ first published photo book and became an icon of 1970s feminist photography. Subjects include Patti Smith, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Laurie Anderson, Rita Mae Brown, Michelle Phillips, Judy Chicago, and many others. Introduction by Kate Millett and introductory poem by Diane di Prima, both of which are also subjects.
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Erotica
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartShe An Me; Trevor Watson
London: She An Me, 1994.1990s catalogue of rubberwear by the English firm She An Me photographed by Trevor Watson. This copy without pricelist.
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The Feminine Figure
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartPhilip Gotlop
London: Thorsons Publishers, 1941.Wartime London studio nudes, with an introduction by the nudist writer William Welby.
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Carlo Mollino Polaroids
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartCarlo Mollino; Fulvio Ferrari; Napoleone Ferrari
Santa Fe: Arena Editions, 2002.The erotic Polaroids of Carlo Mollino (1905-1973), architect, furniture designer, writer, photographer, racing driver and downhill skier. Made in secret from 1962 until his death, staged in his own interiors with models he invited from the streets of Turin.
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Catalina: The Vintage Years
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartKevin Clarke
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2013.Illustrated history of gay porn studio Catalina and its stars, from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
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10 Women
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Lindbergh
Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1996.Black and white portrait photography of Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Kristen McMenamy, Kate Moss, Tatjana Patitz, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington, and Amber Valletta. The first edition in the English language.
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True Blood
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Gatewood; David Aaron Clark
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1997.Blood fetishism, real-life vampires and ritual bloodletting, photographed in the 1990s American underground by a leading chronicler of Modern Primitive body modification.
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Chi Chi LaRue’s Smut
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartChi Chi LaRue
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2007.Gay erotic photography from the drag queen and pornographic film director Larry David Paciotti.
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Adam’s Fifth Rib: A Collection of Photographic Studies of the Nude
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Everard
London: Chapman & Hall, 1936.Everard’s first book of nudes.
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Lusty Garlick Pearls Presenterer Pal LaRoid: Med Dame I Siktet
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartLill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty; Merete Alfsen
Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1987.Early photobook by Norwegian photographer Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty, a photo novel of an artist’s debauched progress through Oslo in the 80s.
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The Male Figure (Complete Set, 36 Volumes)
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1956-1966.Complete run of the physique photography digest of Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), one of the prominent beefcake magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. Like other physique publications of the period, such as Bob Mizer’s ‘Physique Pictorial’, ‘The Male Figure’ presented its studies under the cover of bodybuilding and physical culture, the thin posing strap under which most gay erotic photography and publishing circulated in America before the relaxation of obscenity law in the late 1960s.
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The Garden of Adonis
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartOliver Hill
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1923.Uranian, Arcadian photography by architect Oliver Hill, presented alongside extracts from the English and Romantic poets. The first of several lavish productions by Philip Allan of Hill’s Pictorialist images of children.
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Who’s a Pretty Boy Then? One Hundred & Fifty Years of Gay Life in Pictures
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Gardiner
London: Serpent’s Tail, 1996.A century and a half of gay male life in photographs, from Victorian studio portraits to the 1990s.
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Streetwise
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Ellen Mark
New York: Aperture, 1988.With a holiday photogravure card signed by Mark and her husband Martin Bell, director of the Oscar-nominated film. Photobook of Seattle’s homeless and troubled youth making their way on the streets as pimps, prostitutes, panhandlers and small-time drug dealers. First Aperture edition, preceded the same year by the University of Pennsylvania Press edition, with an introduction by John Irving, and text and photographs edited by Nancy Baker, the text drawn from the soundtrack of Bell’s film. The card, a 14cm x 8cm photogravure captioned “Happy Holidays”, is attached to the half-title with corner photo-mounts, above the ownership stamp of fashion editor Barbara Turk.
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Sex Life of a Photographer
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartFred Schuessler
Sydney: Peer Books, 1972.Australian erotica. Photoshoots in the bush turn to the photographer exploring the models’ bush.
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Wemen
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartIngrid Orfali
: Ingrid Orfali, 1989.This copy inscribed by the artist.
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Playboy’s Greatest Covers
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDamon Brown
New York: Sterling, 2012.A compendium of the greatest covers of the world’s most renowned men’s magazine, naturally with articles on the designs. Foreword by Pamela Anderson.
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Life’s a Beer
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis
Melbourne: Ross Books, 1984.A continuation of Rennie Ellis’ ‘Life’s a…’ series. Australians enjoying beer, casually at the beach or in private settings, or wildly, at raucous parties in all of their 1980s glory.
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Life’s a Parade
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis
Melbourne: Lothian, 1986.Uninhibited 1980s Australian fashion culture captured by Rennie Ellis as part of his ‘Life’s a…’ series.
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Physique: A Pictorial History of the Athletic Model Guild
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer; Winston Leyland
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1982.A pictorial history of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial.
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Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMaud Lavin
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993.Feminist study of Hannah Hoch’s Weimar photomontages and the New Woman of Berlin Dada.
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No Standing, Only Dancing
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis; Susan Van Wyk
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2008.Catalogue for a retrospective exhibition of Australian photographer Rennie Ellis held at the NGV five years after his death.
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Photographs
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond Vino
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2000.Homoerotic portrait photography.
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Through My Eyes
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartAntonio Bezerra
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2010.Male portrait photography, mostly swim or underwear.
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Street Adonis
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartGareth Watkins
Wellington: Gareth Watkins Publishing, 2005.Portraits of young men, clothed or partially undressed, by New Zealand photographer Gareth Watkins, taken between 1997 and 2005. This copy signed by Watkins to the title page.
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Brooklyn Kings: New York City’s Black Bikers
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartMartin Dixon
New York: powerHouse Books, 2000.“As an avid biker for over nine years, photographer Martin Dixon gained unprecedented access to the predominantly African-American motorcycle clubs in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan. Comprising a huge subculture of urban road warriors totally unknown to most New Yorkers and bike club enthusiasts, these black “biker gangs” — with names like the Jaguars, the Black Falcons, the Pythons, the Transit Wheelers, the Imperials, the Corpians, the Harlem Riders, the United Roadrunners, and the Uptown Riders — are really high-octane social clubs, whose members ride flashy ninja sport bikes. Through Dixon’s spectacular insider perspective, we enter a world straddling the customs and trappings of traditional biker culture (the heavily embroidered leather jackets, the thick male camaraderie, the bike as manifestation of the ego), and the rituals and pastimes of the urban biker (the springtime bike blessings, the trophy parties, and the clubhouse socials). More importantly, thanks to Dixon, we witness, even participate in, a set of rituals the likes of which no outsider has ever documented: the block parades (complete with monster trucks!), the barbeque parties (replete with a southern club specialty, the “Mississippi Mud Slide”), the bikini bike wash, the Myrtle and Virginia Beach bike runs, the drag races, the raunchy fundraising parties, and, of course, the “biker chicks”, urban flavor.” (publisher’s blurb) With an essay by Greg Tate.
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Erotic Lingerie
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Barry
London: Coombe Books, 1988.Very 80s sexy lingerie photography collection.
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Portraits of our Elders
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Aird
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1993.A selection of studio photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries featuring Aborigines from southern Queensland.
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La Veglia Eterna / The Eternal Vigil: The Capuchin Catacombs In Palermo
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartIvan Cenzi
Modena: Logos Edizioni, 2014.Photobook of the Italian cemetery housing thousands of naturally mummified bodies. Translated by David Haughton.
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Loving Brian
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Roffman
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2005.A series of photosequences of a young gay man’s early homosexual encounters.
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Texas Twins: The Story of Morgan & Nash
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartHoward Roffman
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2007.Photobook of identical twin brothers Morgan and Nash.
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Turnon Muscles: Masses of Male Flesh
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartStephan Niederwieser
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2012.Anthology of well built naked men featuring photographs by Mark Henderson, Cameron Frost, Ferge Forcet, Andre DeLoach, Tom Cullis, Joan Crisol, Peter Arnold, Blade T. Bannon, Norbert Benike, Tom Bianchi, Louis Daniel Botha, Lage Carlson, Kent Taylor, Michael Stokes, Allan Spiers, JP. Santamaria, Hot House, InkedKenny, JAIF, Louis LaSalle, Pat Lee, Henry Lex, Ron Lloyd, Jonno London, Denis Maslennikov, Dick Mitchell, Byron Motley, Muscle Hunks, Ed Olen, Jeff Palmer, Troy Phillips, Tim Ricks, Dylan Rosser, and Akimitsu Sadoi.
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Street Strollers of New York
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartCatherine Bell
Melbourne: Monash Gallery of Art, 2014.“Street strollers of New York is a sequence of photographs that document African-American nannies shuttling white children through the affluent mid-town streets of Manhattan. Catherine Bell’s interest in this subject grew out of her own experience working as a nanny in London; she embarked on this project with the notion to pay tribute to an under-acknowledged workforce. While there is a significant tradition in documentary photography of images of heroic workers, Bell’s images of African-American nannies belong to another tradition altogether – that of the clandestine street photograph. In these pictures, taken with a hidden camera and for the most part without the subject’s knowledge, Bell has cast each nanny in the role of a fugitive.” (exhibition statement, Sutton Gallery)
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Nippon Gekijo Shashincho [Japan: A Photo Theater]
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartDaido Moriyama; Shuji Terayama
Tokyo: Muromachi-Shobo, 1968.Moriyama’s first book, combining photography of Japanese theatre and urban life with short texts by Shuji Terayama. This copy inscribed by Camera Mainichi editor Yamagishi Shoji: “Moriyama Daido entrusted this to me to give to Allan Porter.”
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Kamaitachi
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Aperture, 2005.Hosoe’s photobook of butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata in the small farming village of Tashiro, the hometown of Hijikata’s father. “Kamaitachi has two meanings. On the one hand, it is unmistakably a documentary of butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata. On the other it is a “record” of my own “memories”, both nostalgic and sad, of having been evacuated as a schoolchild during WWII.” (the artist) The Second Edition, with text in English and a clamshell designed by Tadanori Yokoo, following the Japanese edition of 1969. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the photographer on a mounted plate.
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Human Body
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1982.Hosoe’s collection of photographic works exploring the human form. This copy inscribed by the photographer on the title page.
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Abeceda Dusevniho Prazdna
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartZdenka Tmeje [Zdenek Tmej]; Alexandra Urbanova
Praha [Prague]: Nakladatelstvi Zadruha, 1946.The most comprehensive, artistic, insider photographic documentation of Nazi forced labour, featuring the camp and surrounds at Breslau from Tmej’s capture in September 1942 through to 1944. With text by Alexandra Urbanova.
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Girl’s Nudist Journal
AU$165 Read MoreAdd to cartInt. Nud. Journal
Hamburg: Kiaas Ruders, No date.Collection of pinup and nudist photographs with two soft tales of seduction, one with naturist elements.
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RoXY Pinups
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartErwin Olaf
Amsterdam: Max Studio’s, 1994.1994 calendar for the Amsterdam club RoXY. Operating from 1987-1999, RoXY (Radical outlet for the Xenomaniac in You) was a Dutch rave club emerging at the beginnings of rave culture. Known for its theatrical and glamorous atmosphere, which is on show here with 13 elaborately staged portraits by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf.
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Biba Fashion Catalogues Archive
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Hulanicki; Stephen Fitz-Simon; John McConnell; Helmut Newton; Donald Silverstein; Hans Fuerer; Harri Peccinotti; Sarah Moon; Delisia Howard; Chris Price
London: Biba, 1968-2004.A complete set of the six Biba mail order catalogues (35.5cm x 18cm), four retaining their original Biba logo envelopes. Each catalogue was designed by John McConnell. Offered here together with: the Biba company newspaper ‘Welcome to the New Biba’ [London, 1973], produced to mark the opening of the Big Biba department store in Kensington; a Biba Food Hall paper bag; a Biba plastic carry bag; the exhibition catalogue ‘Biba: The Label, The Lifestyle, The Look’ (Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 1993); and ‘In Biba: A Graphic Romance’ by Delisia Howard, illustrated by Chris Price, with foreword and additional illustrations by Barbara Hulanicki (London: Hazard Books, 2004). Biba was founded by Barbara Hulanicki and Stephen Fitz-Simon in 1964 as a mail-order fashion label, becoming one of the defining names of London’s Swinging Sixties and early 1970s style. Rejecting conventional catalogue photography, the mail-order catalogues were conceived as fashion editorials, featuring original work by Donald Silverstein, Hans Feurer, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, and Harri Peccinotti. Combining innovative graphic design with editorial fashion photography, they rank among the landmarks of late-1960s British fashion publishing.
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Unloveable
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartKai Regan
New York: O. H. W. O. W., 2008.Photobook by American photographer Kai Regan of early 2000s NYC art scene.
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Mountain Men: The Male Photography of Don Whitman
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Whitman
London: Editions Aubrey Walter, 1991.The physique photography of Don Whitman’s Western Photography Guild, operating out of Denver Colorado, capturing the perfectly sculpted men of the American West in the Rocky Mountains.
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Seraph
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartAllan Amato
Los Angeles: Baby Tattoo Books, 2017.Collection of female nude photography exploring nakedness and sexuality. Introduction by Erika Moen. Essays by Liz Lee Stoya. 3 limited edition designs and a trade edition were released. This is the limited edition design featuring Amanda Palmer by Bill Seinkiewicz on the cover, one of 200 numbered copies signed by Amato and Seinkiewicz, also with a signed hand-embellished print by Seinkiewicz laid in.
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Yip Cheong Fun’s Pictorial Collection
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartYip Cheong Fun
[Singapore]: [Yip Cheong Fun], [1985].Late career monograph of the Singaporean photographer Yip Cheong Fun. This copy signed and dated by the photographer.
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The Hidden Nude
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartLewis Morley
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2011.Limited Edition of Lewis Morley’s I To Eye with a chromogenic photographic print on Fuji Crystal Archive Flex (40.6cm x 30.5 cm), being a portrait from Morley’s iconic 1963 series with model Christine Keeler, signed and numbered by the photographer in an edition of 150 copies. The print is housed in a custom made folder in turn housed in a custom made box with the book and a large format 8 page booklet/certificate with text by Morley.
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Bel Ami: New Generation
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Duroy
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2008.BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio’s extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture.
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Bel Ami: Intimate Friends
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Duroy
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2001.BelAmi is a gay pornographic film studio founded in 1993 by the Slovak filmmaker George Duroy, whose pseudonym was taken from the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Established in the years following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the studio became closely associated with performers from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, presenting an idealised image of youthful masculine beauty and helping to define the archetype of the Euro-twink in contemporary gay erotica. BelAmi distinguished itself through a polished and often narrative-driven style of filmmaking. Rather than relying solely on a succession of scenes, many productions incorporated simple storylines, characterisation, and location shooting in rural, coastal, and historic European settings, lending the films a degree of atmosphere unusual within the genre at the time. The same aesthetic informed the studio’s extensive publishing programme, including calendars and photobooks produced with Bruno Gmunder Verlag. These publications, combining portraiture, travel imagery, and erotic photography, are striking examples of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century gay visual culture.
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All Players
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartRick Day
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2012.Large-format photobook of male nudes. The third and concluding volume in Day’s Players series, focussed on the athletic male physique in sporting kit, partial undress, and full nudity, combining selected images from the two earlier volumes with new material.
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Brazil Incarnate
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartChristopher Pillitz
Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 2000.Photo book from the streets, beaches, and parties of Brazil. A five years study on Brazilian sexuality and body culture. Text by Paul Theroux and a preface by Caetano Veloso.
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Naked
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartDylan Rosser
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2011.Male nude photography. Rosser’s final book of new studio nudes before relocating to Ibiza and turning to outdoor shoots.
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Stripper: Photos of Australian Guys
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMike@Bodshotz
London: Editions Aubrey Walter, 1999.“Working as a stripper myself for several years, I quickly learnt how nudity can empower a person, and it is precisely that power that I continue to try and capture with my camera.” (artist’s statement)
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Comme avec une Femme
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEdouard Boubat
Paris: Hors Collection, 1994.71 photogravures by the French photographer of women and their lives. An association copy, inscribed to Boubat’s longtime friend and colleague Peter Turnley.
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An Individual View
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Thake
Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1982.Photobook of the Australian artist. Thake had carried a camera alongside his sketchbook from the 1950s, and the book records the photographic side of an artist otherwise known almost wholly for his printmaking, here presenting 28 plates. Produced in the year of Thake’s death in an edition of 250 numbered copies, this an out of sequence proof copy. Text by Elizabeth Summons, preface by Patrick McCaughey.
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The Photograph as Symbol
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartWynn Bullock
Mountain View: Artichoke Press, 1976.One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the printer Jonathan Clark and with Wynn Bullock’s autographed initials mounted on the limitation page. Bullock’s final work: six short prose passages on the symbol in photography, each paired with a plate, the text settled by June 1975 and issued, at his wish, as a limited edition shortly after his death.
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Alphabet
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartAnthon Beeke
Hilversum: steendrukkerij de Jong & Co., 1970.A set of 30 cards, each depicting a letter of the alphabet or punctuation mark formed by nude women posed on the floor. A major work of prominent Dutch designer Anthon Beeke, originally titled Naked Ladies Alphabet and later renamed Body Type, of which Beeke said: “This alphabet was a reaction to the computer alphabet made by Wim Crouwel. I admit: it’s absolutely unreadable and hence unusable. But if you’re going to make something unusable, you can at least make something people are able to enjoy.” Photography by Geert Kooiman. Produced by Anna Beeke. Story by Ed van der Elsken. Jenkins’ readers most likely know Beeke from his design work for the Suck special issue, The Virgin Sperm Dancer.
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Volume 1
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cart[Bob Delmonteque]
[Los Angeles]: [Bob Delmonteque], [1957].Bob Delmonteque (1921-2011), a Detroit-born bodybuilder first gained fame as a physique model for Douglas of Detroit in the late 1940s before establishing his own Los Angeles based photography and mail-order business. This volume reproduces 25 original catalogue sheets at an enlarged scale, supplemented by a series of full-page plates, Models include Glenn Bishop, Richard Alan, and Norman Tousley, though Delmonteque himself appears frequently, both as photographer and subject.
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Occupied Spaces
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Roberts; Naomi Colvin
London: Here Press, 2012.Photographic documentation of the private and communal spaces of the 2011-2012 Occupy London protest, with a short essay by Naomi Colvin. First edition, one of 250 copies (a second edition of 100 copies was printed in 2014).
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Robert Payne Presents The Levis Crowd
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cart[John Embry]
: N.p., No date.A selection from the gay physique photographic archive of Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG), compiled by Drummer magazine co-founder John Embry under his Robert Payne pseudonym in the years leading up the magazine’s beginnings. The publication brings together masculine imagery of the American outdoorsman in Levi’s, with a centre spread featuring prominent American porn actor and director Fred Halsted.
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Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual
AU$900 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Berlin
[Bologna]: Damiani, 2019.One of 50 copies of the deluxe edition with a signed and numbered silver gelatin photograph by Berlin housed in the publisher’s original mailing carton. “Featuring the work of Berlin along with images by Tom of Finland, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Andy Warhol, Peter Berlin: Icon pays tribute to the man who in the early to mid-1970s revolutionized the landscape of gay male eroticism and became an international sensation. His self-portrait photography graced the covers of gay magazines, and defined a look that re-imagined a new masculinity among gay men and an emerging gay male culture. Peter Berlin was a self-created. Tailoring his own clothes to accentuate an already naturally defined physique, every part of his anatomy became showcased. Cruising was his career, and with a background in photography, Peter embarked on recording thousands of self-portraits. The book is edited by Michael Bullock is a writer and publisher of BUTT, Pin-Up, Fantastic Man, Gentlewoman, and Apartamento magazines.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Gayface
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartAsh Kolodner
Seattle: Lucia Marquand, 2023.“From 2011 to 2015, Ashley Kolodner travelled across the United States photographing hundreds of LGBTQIA+ individuals of all ages. She made two consecutive portraits of each of her subjects, photographing them twice during the same sitting: once with eyes closed and then with eyes open. Through more than 180 colour portraits, along with subject interviews, this title reflects the beauty, intimacy and sometimes the pain of a community kept in the shadows for decades. Includes contributing texts by filmmaker Kimberly Peirce and Tony award-winning producer Jordan Roth. These diptychs symbolise the vulnerability many have felt at the outset of discovering their personal identities, and then the realisation and self-actualisation manifest in the intimate and profound process of coming out. Ultimately these pictures and this handsome volume represent a revelatory statement on the profound humanity we all s hare.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Photographs from the Frontier: Kimberley, 1910-1911
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartKim Akerman
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2017.Taken by the first Swedish scientific expedition to Australia from prints held by the National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, Sweden. Organised and arranged by Kim Akerman.
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Lads
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartBen Robertson
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Shiriaitai: Eriko Sato
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartNishida Koki
Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2016.Glamour / soft erotica photobook of Japanese actress Eriko Sato.
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Warning: Noriko Tachikawa
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartHajime Sawatari
Tokyo: Wanibukkusu, 1999.Glamour / soft erotica photobook of 1990s Japanese actress Noriko Tachikawa.
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Our Girls: Aussie Pin-ups of the 40s and 50s
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMadeleine Hamilton
Melbourne: Arcade Publications, 2009.The art of the pin-up and personal stories of the ladies who graced the pages of Pix, Man, and other Australian men’s magazines of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Dreamboys 4: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2003.The fourth instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 50 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Dreamboys Volume III: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [2002].The third instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 46 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Dreamboys Volume 2: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [2001].The second instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of 66 photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Dreamboys: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2000.The first instalment of the Blue magazine special issues focusing on masculine beauty through the lenses of photographers who are interpreting the theme of athletic prowess and bodily strength. (not only) Blue was a glossy coffee table art magazine produced between 1995 and 2007 by Studio Magazines in Sydney, who also published the successful photography magazine, Black+White. “Blue’s agenda is to showcase artists whose work is an authentic representation of gay relationships, gay lifestyles and gay issues” (Blue’s editorial statement) and it did so in a large format filled with nude and semi nude art photography. The premiere issue featured William Yang, Tom Bianchi, Pierre et Gilles, Edmund White, Fiona McGregor, and Ian Roberts, and over its 12 year history featured work from top photographers and features on artists and celebrities including Robert Mapplethorpe, Leigh Bowery, Boy George, Erwin Olaf, k.d. lang, Bruce of LA, Dennis Rodman, Elton John, John Waters, Karl Lagerfield, Jeffrey Smart, Yukio Mishima, Paul Cadmas, William S. Burroughs, George Platt Lynes, Gilbert and George, Rupert Everett, Uma Thurman, Wilhelm von Gloeden and countless others.
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Candomble
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartJose Medeiros
Rio de Janeiro: Edicoes o Cruzeiro, 1957.Photobook on the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble, providing an intimate visual record of ritual and ceremony.
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MAX. Photographs by Max Vadukul
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Vadukul
New York: Callaway, 2000.Large format fashion photobook.
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Les Passagers
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartChristophe Bourguedieu
Cherbourg-Octeville: Point du Jour, 2007.Photobook by French photographer Christophe Bourguedieu taken in Perth and regional Western Australia between 2004 and 2006.
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Portrait of a Revolution
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBohdan Warchomij
: backpackbook, 2006.Photobook of the 2004 political protests in Ukraine. With an introduction by Australian photojournalist, David Dare Parker. This copy inscribed by the photographer.
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Rage Against The Light
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2015.“Markus Andersen’s photographs feature the city of Sydney as an abstracted backdrop for a fragile human presence, one dwarfed by overwhelming architectural development and consumerism. In these moody black-and-white images, people scurry about and are literally exposed by light. Struck by shafts of illumination between buildings, they are like insects coming out for food.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed to the title page.
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Postcards From Home, 2008-2011
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartSam Harris
: Sam Harris, 2011.Self published photobook of a forest community in Western Australia by English photographer Sam Harris, limited to 50 signed and numbered copies. Winner of the Australian Photobook of the Year 2011. This copy also inscribed by Harris to the endpaper, and with a lengthy manuscript note on the verso of a print laid in.
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Plossu / So Long: Vivre l’Ouest Americain – 1970 / 1985
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartBernard Plossu
Crisnee and Sotteville-les-Rouen: Editions Yellow Now amd Trafoc FRAC Jaite=Mpr,amdoe, 2007.With texts by Charles-Arthur Boyet and Lewis Baltz.
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Iranian Living Room
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartEnrico Bossan
Treviso: Fabrica, 2013.Photobook showing the intimate world of private living rooms in Iranian homes. “The living room is a place where you can feel free, a space where you are not subjected to perennial observation or the control of others and are beyond judgement: a place where you are free to be yourself and not obliged to act out a role imposed on you by other people and society.” (from preface). Photographs by Mohammad Mahdi Amya, Majid Farahani, Saina Golzar, Sanaz Hajikhani, Hamed Ilkhan, Ali Kaveh, Mashid Mahboubifar, Mehdi Moradpour, Sahar Pishsaraeian, Negar Sadehvandi, Hashem Shakeri, Sina Shiri, Morteza Soorani, Nazanin Tabatabaei Yazdi, and Ali Tajik. Edited by Enrico Bossan.
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Line Zero: Photo-Reportage, 1958-2003
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Williams
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2004.Retrospective monograph of Australian photographer John Frank Williams (1933-2016). This copy inscribed by Williams.
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Dead Light
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartOlivier Pin-Fat
: Editions Bessard, 2014.Zine Collection No. 16. One of 300 copies, numbered out of 250, this copy marked AP, with a signed tipped-in photographic print.
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Buzzing at the Sill
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter van Agtmael
Heidelberg and Berlin: Kehrer, 2016.Photobook by Magnum Photos photographer Peter van Agtmael on returning to America after years abroad covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Decisive Moment: Photography by Henri Cartier Bresson
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartHenri Cartier Bresson
Gottingen: Steidl, 2014.The 2014 Steidl reissue of Bresson’s classic 1952 photobook. Includes the 32 pages supplementary booklet.
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Lago
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartRon Jude
[London]: MACK, 2015.Photo book of the California desert.
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John Cowan: Through the Light Barrier
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Cowan; Philippe Garner
London: Shirmer / Mosel, 1999.Monograph of John Cowan’s fashion photography of England in the early 1960s.
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Hijacked Volume One: Australia and America
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartMark McPherson; Max Pam
Perth: Big City Press, 2008.Anthology of young Australian and American photographers edited by Mark McPherson and Max Pam. This copy inscribed by Max Pam to the publisher of his later books, Atlas Monographs and Narcolepsy, Gianni Frinzi.
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Eikoh Hosoe : Meta
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Curatorial Assistance, Inc., 1991.Catalogue for a retrospective exhibition of Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe (1933-2024), including many of butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi from the Kamaitachi series, and others of his avant garde circle. This copy inscribed by Hosoe.
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1241/2004
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartYuko Shindo
[Fukuoka]: Shindo Yuko Studio Inc, 2004.Photo book of the 2004 Hakata Gion Yamakasa by local Japanese photographer Shindo Yuko. This copy signed by the photographer.
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Traces: Dark Clouds
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartIan Teh
Great Britain: Deep Sleep Editions, 2011.Photobook of industrial China. This copy inscribed the photographer.
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YellowKorner Portfolio 3: Xabi Etcheverry
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartXabi Etcheverry
: YellowKorner, 2011.Photobook of works by Xabi Etcheverry from his years in Japan.
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Refocus: Dragon 2010-2011
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartWang Chuan
Beijing: Pekin Fine Arts, 2011.“Published on the occasion of Wang Chuan’s second solo exhibition ‘Refocus: Dragon’ at Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, April to May 2011. This exhibition is also part of Caochangdi Photospring 2011. Wang takes a contrarian approach to digital photography by enlarging the pixels and making them obvious to the viewer in order to draw attention to overlooked details of Beijing’s landscape. ‘In Refocus: Dragon, Wang demonstrates a simple enough premise: The dragon is still everywhere in Beijing; its portrait shows up in the oddest and most unexpected places.[…] Wang’s works implicitly question how these dragon legends play out on a contemporary stage. Wang shows us, using his impressionistic pixels, a variety of places where he recently “discovered” dragons still alive and kicking, lodged deeply in the psyche of local people around Beijing.’ (from foreword by Meg Maggio) Includes an essay by Gu Zheng and artist statement by Wang Chuan. Artist biography and list of works provided. Chinese text is printed in a separate booklet attached.” (publisher’s blurb). This copy inscribed by the photographer.
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Human Negotiations
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartKatharina Hesse; Lara Day
Beijing: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, 2011.Photo book of Bangkok female and transsexual sex workers. Photography by Katharina Hesse with text based on interviews by Lara Day. This copy signed by Hesse.
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Public Fitting
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Johnson
Sydney: Tim Johnson, 1972.A 1972 artist’s book by Sydney conceptual artist (now painter) Tim Johnson (1947-), containing 40 full page black and white street photographs which show the wind lifting the skirts of women on the streets of Sydney. Produced during his time as co-founder of one of Sydney’s first artist-run spaces, Inhibodress, alongside Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy, the work forms a key part of Johnson’s early-1970s investigations into public space, social conditioning, and eroticism. While the images might initially appear voyeuristic (see upskirt), they are best understood through the lens of his contemporaneous performances, Disclosure and Fittings. Those live works staged situations to expose and analyze unconscious “sexual mores” and “sex-role conditioning”, manipulating participants’ clothing in a gallery, provoking direct responses. Public Fitting explores similar themes through the “found performance” of the street, framing the wind as an unwitting collaborator and the women’s reactions as unscripted data on social behaviour. Published alongside a Super 8 film of the same name (featuring different images as compared with the film in the collection of the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane), the film’s duration underscores the work’s non-erotic, analytical dimension. In contrast, the book’s static images are more readily misread as purely voyeuristic. This copy bears a later manuscript title on the spine, “Public Fitting – XXX”, a direct annotation of the work’s perceived erotic content, demonstrating the very social-sexual condition the artist sought to examine. Beyond this conceptual framework, the work also serves a vidid record of women’s fashion in early-1970s Sydney, an era dominated by the miniskirt. The edition size is unstated, though several sources, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, state that 200 copies were produced. This copy with an additional folded sheet containing 5 further small images of a woman’s underwear (perhaps from a different source), the artist’s stamp with his 54 Albermarle St address, and the contemporary signature Micheal [Mansell?] dated 17th/4/72.
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Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F. E. Williams, 1922-39
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartF. E. Williams; Michael W. Young; Julia Clark
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Intimate Portraits: Australian Nudes by the Photographers of Black+White Magazine
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2005.A special issue of Not Only Black + White featuring nude portraiture of Australians with everyday careers. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events.
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Hidden Exposures
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartStefan Richter
Dordrecht: De Vaar BV, 1994.A graphic collection of full-colour photographs depicting tattoos and genital piercings, with a foreword by the photographer.
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Boystown: La Zona de Tolerancia
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBill Wittliff
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2000.Photo essay of the brothels along the border of Texas and Mexico collected and edited by Bill Wittliff. With essays by Keith Carter, Dave Hickey, and Cristina Pacheco.
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Open Shutters Iraq
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEugenie Dolberg
London: Trolley, 2010.“This book is a collection of individual photographs and photographic essays made by women from Baghdad, Basra, Falluja, Kirkuk and Mosul in 2006/7. These women were not photographers or writers, but were brought together by their need to tell their stories.” (from preface)
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Sarah Lucas: 4.2 – 31.3.1996
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartSarah Lucas
Rotterdam: Museum Boymans van Beuningen, 1996.Catalogue for an exhibition by English contemporary artist Sarah Lucas. This copy from the collection of photographer Lewis Morley, with the Lewis and Patricia Morley Library exlibris plate.
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Landscape, 2007 – 2014
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartPiyatat Hemmatat
[Chicago]: Serindia Contemporary, 2015.“LANDSCAPE 2007-2014 by Piyatat Hemmatat is a limited edition (of 500) artist’s book of his Landscape series in which for the last seven years he explored ‘his alternate reality’, the landscape. His exploration of nature has informed many of his published projects and has enabled him to get back in touch with his instincts and derive creative strength from them. LANDSCAPE is a collection of his most illuminating encounters that translated into a stunning selection of thirty landscape photographs in this beautifully-produced artist’s edition volume.” (publisher’s blurb)