Essay ("Paradise and the Innocent Eye") by John Wood and James Crump. Fine light blue linen cloth, with title stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAN SAUDEK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1892041618. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. This title is an erotic art photography classic.
An absolute "must-have" title for Jan Saudek collectors. "I don't have the capacity to portray other people's lives. Based on the pornographic studio photographs of the 19th century, classical painting, and historical portraiture, Saudek's nudes and erotic images reveal a world of fantasy, where artistic play and expression are unfettered by any notion of reality" (Publisher's blurb). He has delved into a dreamworld, where eroticism and aesthetics combine in a photographic style that retains its distinctive power. Saudek has always been a maverick and an outsider. The photographs that have secured his unique place in contemporary photography are all here. "One of the definitive books on Jan Saudek and contains many new as well as never-before-published images. The singular images of the artist/photographer whose work defies any standing categories. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect.
Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. Essay, "Paradise And the Innocent Eye", by John Wood and James Crump. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. A brilliant production by Jan Saudek and James Crump: Oversize-volume format. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only whose entire print run was not completed (because the publisher shut down). The very first book-length publication on the Czech artist/photographer published in the United States.
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