Feral Benga (card)
George Platt Lynes
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 10 × 14.7 cm, English
Price: €8

George Platt Lynes is recognized today as a master of 20th century photography, influencing artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Herb Ritts. Though Lynes was commercially successful in New York fashion and portrait photography, his art practice is largely characterized today by his remarkable photographs of nude men, from the 1930s until his death in 1955. Using inventive lighting, posing, and cropping techniques within his carefully staged studio settings, he was able to visually translate both the physical and psychological nuances of his subjects.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#georgeplattlynes #invitecard #photography
Gino Di Giorgio (card)
George Platt Lynes
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10 cm, English
Price: €8

George Platt Lynes is recognized today as a master of 20th century photography, influencing artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Herb Ritts. Though Lynes was commercially successful in New York fashion and portrait photography, his art practice is largely characterized today by his remarkable photographs of nude men, from the 1930s until his death in 1955. Using inventive lighting, posing, and cropping techniques within his carefully staged studio settings, he was able to visually translate both the physical and psychological nuances of his subjects.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#georgeplattlynes #invitecard #photography
Ralph MacWilliams (card)
George Platt Lynes
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10 cm, English
Price: €8

George Platt Lynes is recognized today as a master of 20th century photography, influencing artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Herb Ritts. Though Lynes was commercially successful in New York fashion and portrait photography, his art practice is largely characterized today by his remarkable photographs of nude men, from the 1930s until his death in 1955. Using inventive lighting, posing, and cropping techniques within his carefully staged studio settings, he was able to visually translate both the physical and psychological nuances of his subjects.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#georgeplattlynes #invitecard #photography
Reign of Narcissism: A Guidebook and Anthology from Ovid to Bruce Chatwin
Barbara Bloom
Published by Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich & Serpentine Gallery, London, 1990, 262 pp. with envelope insert (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 20.5 cm, English/German
Price: €34 (Out of stock)

A compendium to the widely traveled installation of the same title, this book guides us through the “set” of a 19th century museum room where all aspects of what we see are covered with traces of the artist’s likeness. (Self) portraits which take the form of vanity mirrors, watermark porcelain tea cups, chocolates, cameos, designs for her tombstone commemorative stamps showing the hospital where the artist was born, even period chairs upholstered with a cloth pattern of the artist’s dental X-rays. The texts delve us into the worlds of Hegel on The Greek Profile, Virginia Woolf’s The Lady in the Looking Glass, Ovid’s myths of Echo and Narcissus, Bruce Chatwin’s Utz, and Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray. The overall effect of this elegant, subtle and ironic work is ultimately quite eerie.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1990 #barbarabloom #kunsthallezurich
Ghost Writer / Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind…
Barbara Bloom
Published by Passagen Verlag, Vienna, 1994, 224 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 15.5 × 23.5 cm, English/German
Price: €29

This book can be read from the front or the back, one direction in English, and the other in German, where one encounters texts by various authors on topics such as the art of forgery, the fiction of photography as a medium of reality, the detective as a seeker of truth, history and memory. In addition to the texts, the images are important as references to our visual culture. They come from, among others, Rodin, Duchamp, Bonnard, Vermeer, Godard, as well as from our everyday world, and are partly interwoven with texts, partly scattered throughout the book like vignettes.

#1994 #barbarabloom
Frauen und Film, Heft 48: Väter und Töchter
Published by Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main, 1990, 112 pp. (b/w ill.), 16.8 × 24 cm, German
Price: €19

From daughter to woman—between the symbolic structures of patriarchy and libidinal-physical dependence on the father—Frauen und Film 48 explores this dual position of female socialization in various contributions.

Teresa de Lauretis proposes alternative readings of the Oedipus myth. Tanja Modleski examines the subtexts of femininity in Hitchcock’s shrill portrayals. Heide Schlüpmann demonstrates, in William Wyler’s film The Heiress , how technical and formal spatial constructions are mediated by the hierarchies of the father-daughter relationship. Renate Lippert takes up the incest motif in Polanski’s Chinatown.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1990 #film #filmtheory