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Our Girls: Aussie Pin-ups of the 40s and 50s
AU$50.00 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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Betty Page: Queen of Pin-up
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBenedikt Taschen
Koln: Benedikt Taschen, 1993.Monograph on American pin-up model, Bettie Page.
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Dreamboys 4: A Special Issue of Blue
AU$100.00 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$100.00 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$100.00 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$60.00 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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Erotic Sessions
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDahmane
Zurich: Edition Skylight, 2003.Nude photography monograph of Nicholas Dahmane.
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Noir Limite
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean-Claude Belegou; Florence Chevallier; Yves Termorin
Sausseuzemare: Photo and Co, 1990.Catalogue of the French photographic trio, Noir Limite, being the erotic photography of Jean-Claude Belegou, Florence Chevallier, and Yves Termorin. This copy with several additional typescript French texts of the group laid in: 1. Noir Limite Conference de Busto-Arsizio Mardi 18 Septembre 1990 (7 pages); 2. Group CV (2 pages); 3. Noir Limite Extraits de Press (4 pages).
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The Virgin Sperm Dancer
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Levy
The Hague: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1978.An ecstatic journey of a boy transformed into a girl for one day only, and her erotic adventures in Amsterdam, magic centrum. A classic publication from the age of sexual liberation, The virgin sperm dancer is an early photobook which illustrates the story of Joop, a young Dutch man who experiences a day transformed as Joopie, a sexually awakened woman. Published as a Suck Special Issue of the Amsterdam-based pornography magazine Suck, The virgin sperm dancer clearly aims to titillate with its uncensored graphic photographs of the escapades in this fantasy. However through the lengthy narrative and exploration of the versatility of sexual experience, Sperm Dancer finds itself as a prototype for later works that explore sexual freedom and concepts of gender. Through depictions of free love in Amsterdam in the 70s with a focus on transsexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, and homosexuality, Sperm dancer avoids gender paradigms of masculinity and power, and includes women’s sexual empowerment and orgasm as a focus of the work. Unusually for a sex magazine, this standalone publication does not appear to pitch its eroticism to a particular sexuality but rather embraces the versatility of sexual experience as being its greatest appeal. The Virgin Sperm Dancer was immediately influential and homaged on the cover of the September 1972 issue of London Oz. A second edition was published in 1978. Suck is touted as the first European sex newspaper and was launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws.
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European Beauty
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEugene Cramond
London: Luxor Press, 1962.Collection of outdoor and studio nude photography of female models.
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Transformation: Turning Men into Beautiful Women
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTransformation
Manchester: Transformation, No date.Mail-order catalogue for Transformation, the English transsexual mail-order company founded in 1984 by Stephanie Anne Booth (1946-2016). The firm supplied clothing, cosmetics, prosthetics, wigs, and accessories for transsexual and cross-dressing clientele, and became one of the first British businesses to openly serve this market. Booth’s entrepreneurial ventures under the Transformation banner later extended to a gender identity clinic, a contact and dating magazine, and other related services. Her activities occasionally drew controversy, culminating in her arrest for running a bawdy house in connection with a massage service operated under the same name. This catalogue reflecting some of the risque aspects of her business, featuring titillating photography and fetishwear alongside transformation aids and fashion items.
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Orgies Demoniaques: Orgies a bord d’un yacht
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGuy d’ Echara
: Collection des Lits Clos, No date.1950s Eric Losfeld clandestine publication of [Demonic Orgies on a Yacht], with the 6 plates in sepia depicting group sex scenes. DUTEL 2121.
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Gisele et Pierrette ou Les Esclaves d’Island Castle
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Starbine
Paris: Libraire Artistique et Edition Parisienne Reunies, 1932.French 1930s sadomasochist novel. With illustrations by Gaston Smit, signed in the images as G. Topfer.
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Flagellees: La Flagellation des Femmes dans la Rome Antique
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean de Virgans
Paris: Librairie Franco-Anglaise, 1922.1920s French flagellation novel with illustrations by Gaston Smit signed in the image as both G. Smit and G. Topfer.
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Confidences Egarees
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLiane Laure [Liane de Lauris]
Paris: Collection des Orties Blanches, 1932.1930s French flagellation. Jean Fort publication under his sadomasochistic imprint Collection des Orties Blanches. Illustrated with 16 plates by Dagy [Daniel Girard], this copy with 5 of the plates hand-coloured.
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Les Amies de Lady Chattieley
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges de Chanrosey [Chanrosay]
Paris: Librairie des Editions Modernes, No date.1930s French flagellation and sadomasochistic novel with the title recalling D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Illustrated with 12 black and white plates by W. Floger [Edouard Bernard / Edward Alexander Bernard].
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The Colt Album
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn S. Barrington; Rip Colt [Jim French]
London: John S. Barrington, No date.Early monograph on American illustrator and publisher Jim French AKA Rip Colt, edited and with a short introduction by English physique photographer John S. Barrington. This issue without a date in the imprint, other copies seen are printed 1973. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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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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Krishna: The Divine Lover: Myth and Legend through Indian Art
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEnrico Isacco
Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. -
Oiran
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTetsuji Takechi
Tokyo: Tokyo Academy of Arts, 1983.First edition photobook issued to accompany Takechi Tetsuji’s controversial late-career film Oiran, “A mixture of romance and sex combined with surrealistic horror elements.” The story is loosely based on the work of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki in which a 19th century Japanese prostitute moves to America and her dead lover manifests as a mole on her leg. Takechi was a prominent critic and kabuki director before moving into directing films in the 1960s. His 1964 feature Hakujitsumu is regarded as the first big budget pink film (Japanese movies with nudity or sexual content), and also the first Japanese production subjected to systematic fogging censorship. The following year, Black Snow (1965), led to his arrest on indecency charges, a landmark case he ultimately won, significantly reshaping Japanese film censorship and opening the way for the flourishing of the pink eiga genre through the late 1960s and 1970s. After a decade-long hiatus from cinema, Takechi returned with a more explicit remake of Hakujitsumu before directing Oiran in 1983. The film again brought him into conflict with the censors whom “edited and fogged in 98 different places, altering the film from a near-hardcore opus to a very soft costume drama.” Takechi promoted the film by proclaiming it featured “the first multicoloured penis in Japanese cinema.” The present photobook, issued uncensored, retains many of the film’s erotic stills and remains an important visual record of Takechi’s work. As usual for the period, explicit male nudity is absent. References: WEISSER: The Sex Films: Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia.