MEN PHOTOGRAPHING WOMEN IN THE 70S

'Men Photographing Women in the 1970s' by Michael Abramson, 96pp, paperback, pink foil, 175 x 120mm.

Once a month, in 1970s Chicago, men were allowed to take cameras into underground strip clubs. Michael Abramson, a local photographer, thought it would be more revealing to photograph the men photographing the women. Left in a drawer until now, the resulting images are a fascinating, funny and at times unsettling portrayal of the uninhibited male gaze.

Introduced by Midge Wilson.

Michael Abramson (1948-2011) was an American photographer best known for his work documenting the nightlife of black night clubs on the south side of Chicago. His photographs can be found in the permanent collections of many major American institutions including the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, the California Museum of Photography and more.

This is the first edition.

Book design by Matthew Young.

Girls, Girls, Girls

A unique collection of female erotic photography from world-renowned photographers

A new book from the teNeues/MENDO partnership

 A fascinating and fresh contemporary erotic photography collection 

This new photo collection captures the erotic body and gaze with as much realism, rather than projection, as possible. The portfolio delights in diversity, from provocative shots to more tender images, united by an artistic quality and flair. Whether refined or candid, posed or unedited, modern or retro, this is a unique celebration of female sexuality and form in the  21^st century.

Boys, Boys, Boys

For all fans of erotic art and queer photography

The companion edition to an upcoming photo exhibition at Fotografiska New York in July 2020

 The male counterpart to Girls! Girls! Girls! presents a contemporary collection of male erotic photography, full of variety, power, and intensity.

Ghislain Pascal, one of the co-founders of London’s well-known The Little Black Gallery, has already curated numerous photography collections and successful auction sales with the Boys!Boys!Boys! project, partnering with the UK’s largest online auction house, Paddle8. 

Now, for this new publication, he asked renowned photographers such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Matt Lambert, Allen Ginsberg, Greg Gorman, and many others on both sides of the Atlantic to contribute to a stunning celebration of contemporary queer and fine art. 

#SENDNUDES

A teNeues | MENDO publication

#SENDNUDES is a visually stunning book by MENDO and teNeues, that approaches erotic photography from a female point of view. In collaboration with Iman Whitfield, MENDO reached out to photographers all over the world for their favorite shots of female sensuality and intimacy.

'BOY': an anthology of selected commercial ads published in the US Playboy from 1960 to 2003, edited and arranged by author Sarah Vadé. 800 pages of glamour advertising aimed at the 20th century male, patiently converted by a 21st century young woman into a 400 pages publication.

400 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, no text

The Movie Kama Sutra

69 Sex Positions for Movie Lovers

Little White Lies

Forget high definition or surround sound, this is how to take your enjoyment of film to the next level!

The Movie Kama Sutra offers creative sex positions – including the ‘Potter’s Wheel’ (Ghost), ‘King of the World’ (Titanic) and, for the more sexually experimental, ‘Cable Drop’ (Mission: Impossible) – inspired by the most erotic moments in cinema history.

• Paperback
• 144 pages
• 69 illustrations
• Size: 185 x 135 mm
• Published: 03/09/2018

Behind Closed Doors

Sex Education Transformed

Natalie Fiennes

One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultural, social and political forces outside of ourselves.

Fear-mongering, moral panic and outdated attitudes prevail, but if #MeToo has taught us anything, it's how dangerous it is to keep conversations about sex hidden from view. Behind Closed Doors invests in a radical, inclusive and honest sex education, taking us beyond learning about the 'birds and the bees', to identifying inequality that stands in the way of sexual freedom. 

From contraceptives to virginity, consent to pornography, transphobia to sexual abuse, the book shows how our desires are influenced by powerful political processes that can be transformed.

In this revealing publication, Mario Testino presents a 50-part series exploring the intersection of art, anatomy, fashion, and eroticism. Coinciding with an exhibition at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, these works center on the naked body, blurring the line between public and private personas as well as laying Testino’s archive bare with a number of previously unseen photographs.

Matthias Harder, Manfred Spitzer, Carine Roitfeld

Softcover, 24.4 x 34.5 cm, 144 pages

This magnificent book is the new, expanded, complete edition of Nourmand and Marsh’s cult bestseller, with text by renowned writer Peter Doggett. The 1960s and ’70s were the Golden Age of the X-rated movie. For the first time, these films were shown in mainstream cinemas to a fashionable, young crowd. The “porno chic” movement around films like Deep Throat (1972), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) and Debbie Does Dallas (1978) gave skin flicks an air of credibility that had never existed before. Johnny Carson and Bob Hope talked about Deep Throat on TV, and respected artists became involved in promotional campaigns for adult films.

Of all film genres, the X-rated movie is possibly the one that lends itself best to the use of posters as a promotional medium. Screaming taglines, provocative titles and scantily clad bodies are all elements that can be used to great advantage in poster form. Even though many of the adult movies of the ‘60s and ‘70s have faded into cinematic history, their posters remain an inspiration for graphic designers. And today they are wonderful, joyful period pieces that evoke the temptations and taboos of a bygone age of suspender belts, stockings and eye-popping, gravity-defying brassieres. To quote Steve Frankfurt’s iconic ad campaign for the soft core masterpiece Emmanuelle, “X was never like this.”

The only international collection of Beijing photographer Ren Hang, whose images garnered some 90 shows in his brief six-year career, as well as a mass following online. Vivid and explicit, Hang’s images capture naked subjects outdoors, exposed, erect, and in an entanglement of bodies that put him at the forefront of a gender fluid world and of Chinese artists’ battle for creative freedom.

Pierre Keller
My Colorful Life

Circa viertausend Polaroids ersetzen Pierre Keller das Tagebuch von zehn oder fünfzehn Jahren seines Lebens. Sie entstanden im pulsierenden New York der Siebzigerjahre, wo er bis 1983 lebte und arbeitete, auf Reisen in Südamerika und im heimischen Lavaux. Kunstschaffende wie Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Michel Basquiat und Robert Mapplethorpe waren seine Weggefährten.

Erinnerungen an gemeinsame Erlebnisse, aber auch an die Tode der Menschen in seinen Bildern tauchen die Photographien von Pierre Keller in alle Farben des Regenbogens. Sie zeigen das ganze Spektrum des schwulen Lebens: Braune Haut, milchiges Fleisch, rote Schwänze, blanke Ärsche, weisse Dildos, freche Statements, die neongrüne Heimlichkeit der Bath Houses und Augenblicke nachdenklicher Poesie – zeitweise richtig blue.

Anders als Mapplethorpe arbeitete Pierre Keller nie mit professionellen Photomodellen. Er fotografierte die Männer dort, wohin er ihnen gefolgt war, wohin sie ihm gefolgt waren. Seine SX-70 in der alten US-Armeehose stets bei sich beschreibt Keller das Photographieren als sexuellen Akt. Manchmal ging beides auch Hand in Hand.

Selbstzensur kam nie in Frage, Genuss stand im Vordergrund: Schöne Männer, lukullische Freuden. Sein Blick ist durchaus auch ein kulinarischer. „Antiporno‘, wie Jean Tinguely meinte, den Pierre Keller noch heute bewundert: Bilder für das Kino im Kopf. Doch diese pralle Fülle fand damals keinen Anklang. Photographie war noch nicht Galerienkunst. In My Colorful Lifekommen die Polaroids von Pierre Keller spät zu ihrem verdienten Ruhm.

N° 255
1. Auflage 2018

Künstler: Pierre Keller
Mit Texten von: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Stephanie Moisdon
Gestaltung: Nicolas Pages & Gilles Gavillet
Verlag: Edition Patrick Frey
Gebunden, 396 Seiten, 369 Farbabbildungen
29 × 29 cm
Sprache: Englisch, Französisch

Pornalikes

Das Porträtbuch der etwas anderen Art, Pornalikes, entstammt einem zwischen 2002 und 2018 entstandenen Bildarchiv von PornodarstellerInnen, die Berühmtheiten und Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens ähneln oder diese imitieren. Der polnische Künstler Piotr Uklański schöpft dabei aus einem analogen wie digitalen Fundus von Illustrierten, sogenannten Schmuddelheften–Männermagazinen wie Hustler und Loaded– und den sich auf Websites und Blogs ablagernden Bilderhaufen einer vervielfältigten Nachahmungs- oder Meme-Kultur.

In einer Zeit, in der die Dichotomie des Bezeichnenden und Bezeichneten längst aus den Fugen geraten ist, unterläuft Uklański in einer listigen Mischung aus Kritikalität und medialer Ausbeutungslogik die Erwartungen, die ursprünglichen an den traditionellen kunstgeschichtlichen Topos des Porträtierens gebunden sind. Dabei geht es immer auch darum, gängige Moralvorstellungen und die Grenzen des sogenannt guten Geschmacks zu zerdehnen und zu hinterfragen.

Das vorliegende Künstlerbuch entführt den Betrachter in ein postmodernes Spiegelkabinett, in trashige Vexierbilder zwischen Celebrity-Kultur und neoliberaler Instrumentalisierung wie Kommodifizierung. Ausgelotet werden die popkulturell geprägten Spannungsfelder zwischen sexueller Identität und Ausbeutung, Mann und Frau, Fiktion und Wirklichkeit und nicht zuletzt zwischen der realen Biografie und ihrem medialen Narrativ.

Pornalikes schliesst in diesem Sinne an den ebenfalls bei der Edition Patrick Frey erschienenen Werkzyklus mit Kultstatus an: The Nazis (1999) und Real Nazis (2017).

Herausgeber: Edition Patrick Frey

1. Auflage 2019

Piotr Uklanski

Broschiert, 400 Seiten, 400 Farbabbildungen

19 × 26 cm

BILDRAUSCH. DRAWINGS 1966 – 2018

Walter Pfeiffer ist als Fotograf mittlerweile weltberühmt. Das zeichnerische Werk des Künstlers kennen freilich nur wenige, dabei begann Pfeiffer seine künstlerische Laufbahn als Zeichner. Das Buch bietet einen überfälligen Überblick über sein zeichnerisches Schaffen, das in einem reichen Dialog mit seinen fotografischen Arbeiten steht. In den frühen 1970er-Jahren schuf Pfeiffer grossformatige, hyperrealistische Bleistiftzeichnungen, die auch Ausgangspunkt seines fotografischen Schaffens waren, da er dafür Vorlagen brauchte. In diesem Stil entstanden freie Arbeiten, aber auch Pfeiffers legendäre Poster für das Zürcher Filmpodium, Zeitschriftenillustrationen und Auftragsportraits. Ab den 1980ern und vor allem in den 90er-Jahren, als Pfeiffer vorübergehend das Fotografieren aufgab, folgten Zeichnungen in Tusche, Farbstift und Wasserfarben, in denen das elegante, freie Spiel der Linien und Farben in den Vordergrund tritt – intime Portraits von schönen Jungs und engen Freundinnen, Stillleben und Blumenbilder. Sie sind geprägt von Heiterkeit und wacher Sinnlichkeit, sicherem Strich und dem Oszillieren zwischen zeichnerischer Reduktion und der Lust an ornamentaler Fülle. Das Buch ist kein konventioneller Werkschau-Band, sondern ein eigenständiges Künstlerbuch, das den Zeichnungen ihre Lebendigkeit und die Betrachter einen neuen Walter Pfeiffer entdecken lässt.

2. Auflage 2019
Künstler
Walter Pfeiffer
Mit Texten von
Martin Jaeggi
Gestaltung
Marietta Eugster
Gebunden, 492 Seiten, 380 Farbabbildungen
22.7 × 32 cm
Sprache: Englisch

Jeremy Kost is a photographer celebrated for his tireless chronicling of gender and sexuality. Isolated But Not Alone is his first monograph dedicated to images of men since 2014. While Jeremy has attracted an audience of close to half a million followers to his Instagram account in that time, exhibitions and books are the only way to view his uncensored art work in it’s full glory.

Jeremy Kost is a photographer celebrated for his tireless chronicling of gender and sexuality. Isolated But Not Alone is his first monograph dedicated to images of men since 2014. While Jeremy has attracted an audience of close to half a million followers to his Instagram account in that time, exhibitions and books are the only way to view his uncensored art work in it’s full glory.Contrast is distilled. The paint acts as a high-contrast punch against the muted and dreamlike tone of the original Polaroid.

The work is in part a result of a fascination and experiment with color theory, reflected in the tone, light, and contrast of the paint in relation to the images. It also calls to mind the artistic debate of figure and ground—the landscape is almost an equal partner in Kost’s work. Rather than disguise or obscure, paint brings both the figure and landscape of the original image into sharper relief, while repeating the conversation of figure/ground again with paint to Polaroid.

Whether staring back at the camera or captured at a distance, the men in Kost’s work exude a true sense of intimacy. They offer a canvas for our own projections and fantasies. The paint fractures the image, almost puncturing a reverie, reminding us of the vulnerability of that moment and inviting us in while also keeping us at a distance.

In addition, the book contains a new poem by actor/poet Nico Tortorella and a conversation with Drew Sawyer, photo curator at the Brooklyn Museum. Isolated But Not Alone is an essential collectible for fans of Kost’s work and an illuminating introduction to his work for new audiences.

Self Published, 2018
12" x 10"
216 Pages
200 Images
First Edition of 1500 Copies