Bruce of Los Angeles, Rodeo [2013 1ST EDITION LTD #/500 SLIPCASE/OB I- FINE]

Acne Studio, 2013. Hardcover in faux leather with tipped-in image to front cover housed in printed slip case with red obi. Includes 3 original tipped-in polaroids with tissue guards at the center of the book. First Edition, First Printing. Limited Edition of only 500 numbered copies (of which this is #424/500). 8 x 6 inches.190 pages with numerous photographic polaroid reproductions throughout. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Fine slipcase and Vdery Good Plus obi/band showing a long closed tear to rear joint and another smaller closed tear to rear foldover and some associated wrinkling along the obi's rear panel (presents nicely with the obi placed in a clear palstic protector). Overall a Fine copy of this collectible and increasingly hard-to-find publication. Rodeo, a book of photographs from the Wild West by Bruce Bellas - better known by his pseudonym Bruce of Los Angeles - whose classic style and mastery of light, often compared to the glamour shots of Hollywood, has greatly influenced the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, Herbs Ritts and Bruce Weber. In this book published by Acne Studios, the art critic and curator Vince Aletti has brought together what he considers to be the most personal shots by the photographer and specialist in Beefcake. More subtle than his usual nudes, these shots reveal a different face of masculinity, more rooted in reality, and reveal a new facet of Bruce Bellas's art, more intimate in particular. .…