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Molinier, Pierre (Artist/Photographer) & Gorsen, Peter (Contributor) : Pierre Molinier, Lui-meme ("pierre Molinier, Myself") : Essay Uber Den Surrealistischen Hermaphroditen

Rogner & Bernhard, Munich, Germany, 1972

ISBN 3920802950

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 90 pages. Collection of auto-portraits, presented as an Artist Book. One of the greatest art photography books of the 20th century. Limited Edition of 2000 copies. Published as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Pierre Molinier and Rogner & Bernhard: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Pierre Molinier. Essay by Peter Gorsen. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Munich, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In publisher's original brown paper wrappers. In protective glassine DJ, as issued. Presents "Pierre Molinier, Lui-Meme". He as himself, way ahead of his - and our - time. Some of the most haunting (and haunted) auto-erotic photographs ever made by an artist, single-handedly pushing the boundaries of art to its outermost limits. The challenge Molinier poses is fundamental: Is he an artist or not? That is to say, his fetishism can be easily dismissed, and its transcendent beauty denied. His is the work of someone who was, on the outside, a conventionally handsome and refined French gentleman. His unsettling work, which he produced for his own private pleasure, belies this mask and rejects it. Because he also created remarkable etchings and paintings, Pierre Molinier did not think of himself primarily as a photographer, but rather as an artist who also realized his vision through photography. He shot carefully staged photographic tableaux that utilized mannequins and other props. The latter reminds us of his obsession with sex as pure fantasy, as something which begins and ends as a fantasy that can never ever be achieved in reality. In the process, he created some of the most disturbingly beautiful photographs of the 20th century. Molinier shows that the erotic (as opposed to the pornographic) is about beauty (the beauty of fantasy), an aesthetic (rather than a sexual) experience. Gilles Berquet, Lucas Samaras, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Ellen Von Unwerth, among many others, would not be possible without Molinier's pioneering example. An absolute "must-have" title for Pierre Molinier collectors. This title is a great art photography book. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online, is still in the publisher's original brown paper wrappers, and is especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. We have not seen a more beautiful copy of the book. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 50 plates. Selected as one of the "Seminal Photography Books of the 20th Century" in the "Book of 101 Books". One of the greatest artist/photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO HANS BELLMER AND GILLES BERQUET TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3920802950.

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