Jurgen Maelfeyt
WET

23 x 30 cm, 48 p, ills colours, linnen hardcover
ISBN 9789493146662
design and edit: Jurgen Maelfeyt

edition of 500
April 2021

In recent years, a young and active queer photography scene has emerged, helped in large part by social media. Indulging their desire for self-presentation, affirmation, and reflection, many photographers portray male homosexuality in particular as a private idyll. At the same time, they shine a critical light on their own and society’s approach to transsexuality and gender roles and expose the corrupting but also affirmative power of pornography.

Films, series, and mainstream cultural appropriation suggest that society has largely embraced queer lifestyles. However, a number of documentary photographers provide evidence that being gay or lesbian can still lead to marginalization, isolation, stigmatization, and violence in certain countries and communities. Their works also take the regime of sexuality itself into account and show that many bans on same-sex contact have colonial origins.

This carefully researched and richly designed book introduces around 40 contemporary photographic positions, including those of well-established photographers as well as plenty of unknown and less well-known talent.

With texts by Ben Miller from Schwules Museum Berlin.

Explore the compositions, postures, and role-playing of the male nude genre from anonymous 19th century erotica through to contemporary work from David Hockney and Duane Michaels. Highlights include the Sicilian homoerotic scenes of Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden and illustrations from Physique Pictorial, the leading organ of the mid-50s gay scene.

A short history of male nude photography

While the female nude has long played a conspicuous role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such attention, or acceptance. This ode to the male physiquecelebrates the evolving, at one time illicit, art form from anonymous 19th century erotica through to contemporary work from David Hockney and Duane Michaels.

Through the classic, the playful, and the provocative, it explores the compositions, postures, and role-playing of this often under-explored genre. Esteemed masters such as Herbert List, George Platt Lynes or Robert Mapplethorpe are all there, alongside Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, famed for his homoerotic images of nude youths in classical postures in Sicily. Further highlights include illustrations from Physique Pictorial, the leading organ of the mid-50s gay scene and a pioneer in gay publishing.

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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.

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

X-Rated

Adult Movie Posters of the 60's and 70's

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.”

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

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