Master Breasts: Objectified, Aestheticized, Fantasized, Eroticized, Feminized by Photography's Most Titillating Masters / [Melissa Harris, Editor] ; Introduction, Francine Prose

Prose, Francine (Introduction); Finley, Karen; Fo, Dario; Simic, Charles

ISBN 10: 0893818615 / ISBN 13: 9780893818616

Published by Aperture, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1998

About this Item

Collection of photographs, in black-and-white & full-color, of female breasts, famous & unknown, by photographs famous & unknown, with an Introduction & 3 essays, in 111 pages. A FIRST EDITION, Second printing from 1988, this oversized softcover has purple decorative wrappers. Condition is VG+: completely clean, binding straight & strong, pages white, colors bright. Extremely slight edgewear, including tiny corner creases. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day. SORRY: book is too large for any expedited domestic or international shipping due to postage costs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Master Breasts: Objectified, Aestheticized, Fantasized, Eroticized, Feminized by Photography's Most Titillating Masters / [Melissa Harris, Editor] ; Introduction, Francine Prose
• Publisher: Aperture, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893818615
• ISBN 13: 9780893818616
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition, 2nd Printing
• Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Erotica-Sex & Sexuality
  • Photography-Photo Essays
  • Women's-Men's-Gender Studies/Feminism/LBGTQA

About this title

Synopsis

The most revealing look at breasts.Photographs of breasts are in museums, on book covers, in fashion ads, and on posters. Alluring symbols of womanhood, breasts have fascinated generations of image makers. Here, for the first time between two covers, is the breast in the titillating breast, the maternal breast, the aging breast, and the symbolic breast. In Master Breasts, darkly witty political images of the 1970s jostle for space with Edward Weston's classic nudes; Nan Goldin's friends share pages with Robert Mapplethorpe's gorgeously sculptured models. From Alfred Stieglitz's classic studies of Georgia O'Keeffe to Mary Ellen Mark's vivid documentary portraits, they are all here. Other artists include Cindy Sherman, Imogen Cunningham, and Sally Mann. A witty and reflective Introduction from the acclaimed novelist and essayist Francine Prose further links the images, while a monologue from Karen Finley's recent performance piece American Chestnut, "The Detective," reveals a young girl's anguish about breast-inspired catcalls and jokes and then sardonically calls for similar cultural treatment of the male anatomy. Finally, in Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's radically funny play The Story of the Tiger, the benefits of breast-feeding are celebrated as never before.