Peter Gorsen Contributor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black Hardcover, 1st Edition. Book Condition, Book edges and spine slightly faded, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 90 pages. Published in 1972. Collection of auto-portraits, presented as an Artist Book. One of the greatest art photography books of the 20th century. Limited Edition of 2000 copies. Published as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Pierre Molinier and Rogner & Bernhard: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Pierre Molinier. Essay by Peter Gorsen. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Munich, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In publisher's original glassine DJ, as issued. Presents "Pierre Molinier, Lui-Meme". He as he himself, and as way ahead of his - and our - time. Some of the most haunting (and haunted) auto-erotic photographs ever made by an artist single-handedly pushing the boundaries of art to its farthest limits. The challenge Molinier poses is fundamental: Is he an artist or not? That is to say, his fetishism can be questioned and easily dismissed, and its transgressive beauty denied. His is the work of someone who was, on the outside, a conventionally handsome and refined French gentleman. His unsettling work, which he produced for his own private pleasure, belies this mask and rejects it. Because he also created remarkable etchings and paintings, Pierre Molinier did not think of himself as a photographer, but rather as an artist who finally realized his fetishistic, obsessive vision through photography. He shot carefully staged photographic tableaux that utilized re-assembled mannequins and other re-constructed props, thereby eventually erasing the line between himself (as more object than human subject) and his dolls (as more human than physical object). The latter reminds us of his obsession with sex as pure object, as pure fantasy, as something that begins and ends as a fantasy that can never ever be achieved in reality. In the process, he created some of the most disturbingly beautiful photographs of the 20th century. Molinier shows that the erotic (as opposed to the pornographic) is about beauty (beauty as a fantasy), an aesthetic (rather than a sexual) experience. Gilles Berquet, Lucas Samaras, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ellen Von Unwerth, and Lee Friedlander ("Mannequin"), among others, would not be possible without Molinier's pioneering example. An absolute "must-have" title for Pierre Molinier collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition of 2000 copies. This title is a great art photography book. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online, is still in the publisher's original glassine DJ, and is in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus.50 plates. Selected as one of the "Seminal Photography Books of the 20th Century" in the "Book of 101 Books". One of the greatest artist/photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. ISBN 3920802950. no.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Tear in dust jacket. Light wear. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.