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Synopsis
Through blood, sweat, tears, and writhing, bikini-clad bodies, this book compiles the best images of Theo Ehret, an unsung giant of sports photography. From the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, Ehret chronicled the matches at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in L.A. as well as the erotic sub-genre of “apartment wrestling.”
Through the weigh-ins, the injuries, the backstage brawls, and the captivated crowds, Ehret’s images capture all the action and the atmosphere of the Grand Olympic Auditorium, where the likes of André the Giant, Killer Kowalski, The Sheik, Gordman and Goliath, and Jesse “The Body” all punched their way to stardom. Alongside the Grand Olympic shots are the dramatic apartment wrestling images, a male fantasy phenomenon of bare breasts and buttocks, long, strong limbs and staged passions.
An interview with Ehret adds his personal commentary to both sides of the wrestling scene, the legends he met along the way, and the interplay of fantasy, reality, and photography.
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Cameron Jamie, born in 1969, is an American visual artist who has exhibited throughout the U.S. and widely in Europe. His artwork addressing the theme of wrestling has appeared in numerous bodies of work. Jamie is also an expert on the subject of North American professional wrestling and apartment wrestling.
The artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012) worked with performance, installation, drawing and painting, video, sound, and sculpture. Drawing from historical research, mass cultural sources, psychological theory and Sex to Sexty, his artworks reference both high art and vernacular traditions.
Theo Ehret (1920–2012) was the house photographer at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s. His evocative work captured the enormous wrestling personalities of that era―Muhammad Ali and André the Giant, George Foreman and Roberto Durán, among others―and also the sport’s sub-genre known as “apartment wrestling”.
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Exquisite Mayhem - the Spectacular and Erotic World of Wrestling
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Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Taschen, Koln, Germany. 2002. 488 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Through blood, sweat, tears, and writhing, bikini-clad bodies, this book compiles the best images of Theo Ehret, an unsung giant of sports photography. From the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, Ehret chronicled the matches at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in L. A. As well as the erotic sub-genre of âapartment wrestling. â; 17 X 23 X 1.6 centimeters; 511 pages. Seller Inventory # 74641
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Exquisite Mayhem. The Spectacular and Erotic World of Wrestling by Theo Ehret.
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Hardcover. Condition: gut. Erste Aufl. dieser Ausgabe. Fadengehefteter schwarzer Pappeinband mit Rücken- und Deckeltitel, fotografisch gestalteten Vorsätzen und fotografisch gestaltetem Schutzumschlag. Der Umschlag dezent randberieben, die obere Ecke des Vorderdeckels berieben, ansonsten in gutem bis sehr gutem Erhaltungszustand. "Blut, Schweiß, Tränen und zuckende Körper in Bikinis: Dieses Buch versammelt die besten Bilder von Theo Ehret, einem verkannten Giganten der Sportfotografie. Von Mitte der 1960er- bis Anfang der 1980er-Jahre dokumentierte Ehret die Kämpfe im Grand Olympic Auditorium in L. A. sowie das erotische Subgenre des »Apartment-Wrestlings«. Das offizielle Wiegen der Kontrahenten, die Verletzungen, die Rangeleien hinter der Bühne und die völlig entfesselten Zuschauer: Ehrets Bilder fangen die Action und testosterongesättigte Atmosphäre des Grand Olympic Auditorium ein, wo Legenden wie André the Giant, Killer Kowalski, The Sheik, Gordman and Goliath und Jesse »The Body« sich den Weg zum Erfolg freiboxten. Aber auch die verborgene Seite des Wrestlings, das »Damen-Catchen«, das in engen Apartmentzimmern eine bizarre Sumpfblüte trieb, kommt nicht zu kurz - eine schwüle Männerfantasie aus Brüsten, Pobacken und spitzen Schreien. In einem Interview verrät Ehret, wie er die zwei Seiten der Wrestling-Szene erlebte, welche Legenden er kennenlernte und wie Fantasie, Realität und Fotografie miteinander interagierten." (Verlagstext) In englischer Sprache. 511, (1) pages. Groß 8° (175 x 238mm). Seller Inventory # BN29076
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Exquisite Mayhem. The Spectacular and Erotic World of Wrestling Kelley, Mike; Jamie, Cameron
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Hardcover. Condition: gut. Exquisite Mayhem. The Spectacular and Erotic World of Wrestling In deutscher Sprache. pages. Seller Inventory # BN502074