Exquisite Mayhem

Ehret, Theo

ISBN 10: 3822859060 / ISBN 13: 9783822859063

Published by Taschen, 2001

About this Item

First edition. 488 pages. An over-sized book consisting of black and white photographs. Fine throughout. (H1).

Seller Inventory # 5490

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exquisite Mayhem
• Publisher: Taschen
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3822859060
• ISBN 13: 9783822859063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

"There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not a sport, it is a spectacle,..."
Roland Barthes

About the Author

Theo Ehret (1920–2012) was the house photographer at the Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles from the mid 1960s until the early 1980s. His evocative work captured the enormous wrestling personalities of that era―Muhammad Ali and André the Giant, George Foreman and Roberto Durán, among others―and also the sport’s sub-genre known as “apartment wrestling”.