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Marcopoulos, Ari (Photographer) & Heiss, Arianna (Contributor) : Even The President Of The United States Sometimes Has Got To Stand Naked

JRP/Ringier Publishers, Zurich, Switzerland, 2005

ISBN 3905701359

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 160 pages. Exhibition catalog presented as an Artist Book. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Ari Marcopoulos and Gavillet & Rust: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the spine, as issued. Photographs by Ari Marcopoulos. Afterword Essay by Arianna Heiss. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Zurich, Switzerland to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the P. S.1/Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) Long Island from October 30, 2005 through January 23, 2006. Presents Ari Marcopoulos' "Even The President of The United States Sometimes Has Got To Stand Naked". Family album, photographs of himself, his wife, and his two sons, Cairo and Ethan, interspersed with dazzling landscape photographs taken in Japan, Europe, and the United States. The Marcopoulos family is typical and attractive. Like all families, the kids get into accidents, get sick, have nosebleeds, root canal, and scabs. Perhaps the best way to put Marcopoulos' achievement in perspective is to compare and contrast it with Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency". While the latter is about coupling and all the pain and passion that come with the territory, "Even The President of the United States Sometimes Has Got To Stand Naked" is about family life, its quotidian ups and downs. There are sexually explicit images of Marcopoulos and his wife making love, but it looks so normal and even funny compared to the anguish that is palpable on every page of Goldin's classic. As Arianna Heiss points out, Ari's family photos are about photography itself, as was once famously observed by one of its most astute critics: "Photographs are, by virtue of being photographs, touched by pathos. They express a feeling both sentimental and implicitly magical: They are attempts to contact or lay claim to another reality" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Ari Marcopoulos collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Ari Marcopoulos. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 81 color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ARI MARCOPOULOS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3905701359.

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