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Hustlers
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhilip-Lorca diCorcia
Gottingen: Steidl, 2013.Oversize photo book by American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1953-) documenting male prostitutes. “I took the Hustler photographs following a period of repressive stomping on the U.S. Constitution’s First Amemdment, “Freedom of Speech”. An appropriate personification of the moment would be Jesse Helms, a man deeply committed to his bigotry. He was responsible for a lot of the stomping. In 1989, the National Endowment for the Arts was attacked for supporting a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition that was canceled as a result. In the same year, the money I received from the NEA had a proviso attached which required that I not transgress “American” values; at least that is how I remember it. I’ll be it was more onerous. Other artist recipients called for a boycott, or some kind of protest. I decided to beat Mr. Helms et al. at their own game, mendacity. I paid the “hustlers” in these photographs with the money awarded to me by the NEA. The price was meant to be the normal cost for the lowest common denominator of street sex. Of course it varies. Hustlers lie a lot too. I’ve included in the titles the name, age, hometown, and price paid of each one, as an emphatic declaration of the identity mutation and the taxonomy of the project implied. And, as a report to the government of its well-spent dollars. (from artist’s statement) A selection of 21 of the photographs were exhibited in diCorcia’s first museum show, Strangers, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1993. Here for the first time the complete series is published in it entirety.
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Public Fitting
AU$4,000.00 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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Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock’s Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands of China
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Aris
New York: China House Gallery, 1992. -
Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F. E. Williams, 1922-39
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartF. E. Williams; Michael W. Young; Julia Clark
Adelaide: Crawford House, 2001. -
Golden Boy as Anthony Cool: A Photo Essay on Naming and Graffiti
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHerbert Kohl; James Hinton
New York: The Dial Press, 1972.Important early study of urban text graffiti and tagging in New York. More than just a photobook, though Hinton’s work definitely gives it that distinction, Kohl, founder of the 1960s Open School movement, provides lengthy and invaluable insight into language and identity.
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The Harlem Book of the Dead
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Van Der Zee; Owen Dodson; Camille Billops
Dobbs Ferry: Morgan & Morgan, 1978.Early to mid 20th century African American funeral photography in Harlem, New York City. Foreword by Toni Morrison.
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Not Only Sport (Complete Set, 6 Volumes)
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1997-2000.A spin-off of the successful photography magazine, Black+White. Not Only Sport was a coffee table magazine light on the articles and heavy on the quality photography, including sports photography and nude and semi nude portraits of athletes by some of the world’s best photographers. Athletes include Karla Gilbert, Shane Crawford, Michael Slater, Muhammad Ali, Juanita Little, Miles Stewart, Vici Andronicus, Adrian Lam, Victoria Roberts, Cathy Freeman, Bruce Lee, Pat Rafter, Sarah Straton, the Danish National Gymnastics Team, Guy Andrews, Adidas Vs Nike, Shane Kelly, Stuart MacGill, Anna Kournikova, Matthew Nicks, Jackie Allen, Zali Steggall, Jacqques Cousteau, Nicole Sanderson, Shannon Taylor, Michael Klim, Linford Christie, Anthony Mundine, Rex Dupain, and many others.
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The Gay Seventies
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHal Fischer
San Francisco: Gallery 16, 2019.Collected edition of the photo-text works of Hal Fischer produced between between 1977 and 1979 including the highly important Gay Semiotics. FischerÂ’’s works were major investigations of gay life in late 1970s San Francisco. Contains: Gay Semiotics; 18th near Castro St. x 24; Boy-Friends; A Salesman; Civic Center; Cheap Chic Homo; At the Center of the Gay Universe.
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2Blue: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2004.2Blue explores the many facets of male coupling, from sex and friendship to romance and play. Be they partners, lovers or friends, the pairs in 2Blue reflect the breadth of relationships between men around the world. In this volume, 58 photographers interpret the bonding theme with artistic rigour and sensitivity. A lingering kiss, a rough embrace, a moment of anticipation – all are captured with an eye for passion and emotional honesty. (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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The Album: A Visual Celebration of Australian Music (A Special Issue of not only Black+White Magazine
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [1997].A special issue of Not Only Black + White featuring photography, some nude, of Australian musicians. 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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The Masters Volume 3: A Special Issue of Not Only Black + White Magazine
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [2003].A special issue of Not Only Black + White featuring the work of Nobuyoshi Araki, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Andreas H. Bitesnich, Erwin Blumenfeld, Bob Carlos Clarke, Anton Corbijn, Dominique Issermann, Richard Kern, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Mary Ellen Mark, Lewis Morley, Jan Saudek, Francesco Scavullo, and Jock Sturges. 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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The Masters Volume 2: A Special Issue of Not Only Black + White Magazine
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, [2001].A special issue of Not Only Black + White featuring the work of William Klein, Ralph Gibson, Sheila Metzner, Rankin, Pierre et Gilles, Ed Freeman, Markus Klinko & Indrani, Isabel Snyder, James Houston, John Rawlings, Joyce Tenneson, Dominique Derisbourg, Erwin Olaf, and Howard Schatz. 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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The Masters Volume 1: A Special Issue of Not Only Black + White Magazine
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1997.A special issue of Not Only Black + White featuring the work of Walter Chin, Bettina Rheims, Greg Gorman, Nick Knight, Albert Watson, David Lachapelle, Paulo Roversi, Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Ellen Von Unwerth, David Bailey, Mario Sorrenti, Max Dupain, and Jeanloup Sieff. 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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Intimate Portraits: Australian Nudes by the Photographers of Black+White Magazine
AU$40.00 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$100.00 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$200.00 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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Tokyomania
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNobuyoshi Araki
Paris: Edition Mennour, 2000.Catalogue for a Paris exhibition of erotic photography by the Japanese photographer.
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Wild Australia: Meston’s Wild Australia Show, 1892-1893
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Aird; Mandana Mapar; Paul Memmott
Brisbane: University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, 2015.“The ‘Wild Australia Show’ was conceived by Archibald Meston and was a travelling troupe of 27 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people conscripted from the Queensland frontier who performed in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne during 1892 and 1893 in preparation for departure on an international tour in the era of World Exhibitions. However the plans were curtailed by contractual disputes, scandals of financial incompetence and accusations of the capture of certain troupe members against their will in chains. The exhibition came out of a meticulous process of collection and research by Queensland Museum senior curators Michael Aird and Mandana Mapar, and University of Queensland academic, Professor Paul Memmott who place the previously unknown images in a visual and historic context. This exhibition catalogue uses the same title of Meston’s show of more than 120 years ago, Wild Australia, and gives human dignity to the names and faces of the people in the photographs, whose strength of spirit and determination are evident in the gazes of the portrait subjects.”
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100 Naked Girls
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPetter Hegre
New York: Amphoto Books, 2009.Photo series by Norwegian photographer Petter Hegre continuing his exploration of the style he describes as the New Nude. Foreword by Clifford Thurlow.
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Lewis Morley
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJudy Annear; Lewis Morley
Sydney: The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006.Exhibition catalogue. With an essay by Barry Humphries.