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Three years ago, photographer Greg Gorman created for powerHouse Books the most personal work of his career. This epic artist’s project features carefully selected young men—not big or overly built—who exemplify for Gorman a perfected state, allowing him to frame grace, beauty, and elegance in the form of the male nude. Included amongst the 212 portraits are many of Gorman’s friends and acquaintances, as well as professional models, many of whom had never posed nude before. The initial release of the book went on to become a best-seller.
The cumulative effect of As I See It creates a pleasurable zone of contemplation, allowing one to reexamine the precepts of beauty within a refreshing framework of exalted maleness. According to Gorman, “As I see it, they’re not really boys, yet they’re not really men. They are caught somewhere in between—almost at that point of maturity that defines masculinity.”
“The display of the male body has been fraught with significance for centuries....Gorman portrays the male body without stripping it bare of power or poignance. It’s a new approach to an old, old idea.”
—American Photo
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Greg Gorman’s books include Just Between Us (Arena, 2002), Perspectives (Leonardo Arte, 1999), Inside Life (Rizzoli, 1997), and Greg Gorman: Volume II (Treville, 1992). Gorman has taught at the Santa Fe, Toscana, and Albion River Inn photographic workshops. He has lectured at UCLA, the International Center of Photography, the University of Southern California, the University of Kansas, the Brooks Institute of Photography, and IADL in Lisbon. A native of Kansas City, Gorman lives in Los Angeles.
Elton John, an avid collector of photography and a pop star with more than fifteen number one albums and even knighthood under his belt, is one of the most widely loved and commercially successful entertainers of the last thirty years.
John Hurt, the two-time Academy Award–winning actor, is internationally renowned as one of the best stage and film performers of our time. Included in his more than one hundred film appearances are the classics A Man For All Seasons, The Elephant Man, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. SIGNED and inscribed by Gorman on half-title page, a collection of male nudes; light scratching to boards, some of the titles on the spine have rubbed off else a tight bright unmarked copy in brown cloth boards with front cover applique (which is intact) ; stated first edition with full number line ; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 52766
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original hardcover, no jacket as issued, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Gorman to previous owner, full number line, this is the first edition. Nice cloth binding with photograph on front board; photographs throughout. Book is very bright and solid with very light wear to boards. Some minimal reference wear. There is some age-toning, discoloration inside front cover at gutter likely from original glue along spine. Excellent monograph. Seller Inventory # ABE-1762099453337
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Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Typical binding glue stain on endpapers. Signed by Gorman on half-title. title lettering a trifle rubbed. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Photography; Signed by Author. ISBN: 1576870863. ISBN/EAN: 9781576870860. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 16008. Seller Inventory # 16008
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AS I SEE IT: THE ADVANCE SIGNED COPY - Rare Fine Advance Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Greg Gorman - SIGNED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 288 pages. Published in 2000. Landmark collection of male nudes. One of the most beautiful erotic art photography books of our time. Advance Signed Copy of the First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition and the Second Edition. Published in a tiny first print run as a hardcover original only. It was never revealed how many copies Greg Gorman signed in advance for the publisher as part of the latter's trade promotional campaign. It is clear nevertheless that very few ended up in private collectors' hands. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Greg Gorman and Daniel Power: Dark-brown ribbed cloth boards with titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Rock musician Abdias Marin photographic reproduction pasted in front. Photographs and Introduction by Greg Gorman. Preface by Sir Elton John, the world's greatest private collector of erotic art photography. Afterword by John Hurt. Acknowledgments, Biography, and List of Exhibitions appended at the end. Printed on sepia-toned, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Greg Gorman's "As I See It". The photographer's "summing-up" collection on the male nude. Almost ALL of the portraits are full-frontal, and include such celebrities as Christopher Atkins, David Sojka, Nicholas Gonzalez, Josh Duhamel, Aaron Long, Tony Ward, Jack Welsh, and Jeff Clark, among many others. Also has the celebrated sequence featuring the seemingly shy but extremely well-endowed model, "Speedy". Greg Gorman has said that what he wanted to capture permanently ("freeze", as it were, as only photographs do) is the boy/man, not the muscular, overdeveloped gym-type nor the pubescent, scrawny kid, but someone in-between, with a lean, supple, and clean-shaven body, regardless of his chronological age. Many of the boy/men in this collection are in their late-teens or early twenties. But someone like Christopher Atkins was already in his forties yet still had the "Blue Lagoon" good looks and physique that catapulted him to global stardom. Because for Gorman, the boy/man is the epitome of everything that makes the male specimen irresistible. All in all, his best book. An absolute "must-have" title for Greg Gorman collectors. This Advance Signed Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the half-title page by Greg Gorman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page or bookplate. Gorman's signature fills up the page. This title is a great art photography book. As far as we know, this is the only such Advance Signed Copy (of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing) available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws or are the Second Edition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 212 sepia-toned plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. Some of the most beautiful and sexiest models and actors of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GREG GORMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1576870863. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 23787