Gross Garry (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Photographs by Garry Gross (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Illustrated with 6 color photographs of young girls, dressed (and un-dressed) to look older. [12] pages. Slim 12mo, black printed wrappers, staple-bound. A small artist's book -- a limited edition of unknown size -- culminating in two infamous nude photographs of Brooke Shields, then age of 10. New York: Self-published by Gross and printed by The Hennegan Company in Cincinnati, (no date, circa 1975). First and only edition, created by Gross to advertise his studio photography business. A fine copy, unmarked and as new. Garry Gross was regularly employed by Brooke's mother to photograph her daughter, then a model with the Ford agency. Her mother signed a contract giving Gross full rights to use the images of her daughter. "His name was well-known, even if it is whispered with muted distaste in photography and copyrights circles. His body of work is unknown, eclipsed by a single pictorial he undertook for American socialite Teri Shields. In 1975, Garry Gross scribbled his name into a dubious footnote in the history of photography by photographing a nude 10-year-old Brooke Shields. The photos of the bejeweled soon-to-be-child-actress, in thick makeup and in a steaming, ornate bathtub, however, wouldn't become known outside the arts community for another three years. After seeing the photos, Louis Malle cast Brooke Shields as a child prostitute in Pretty Baby, his acclaimed movie set during the last months of legal prostitution in New Orleans. The rest was history -- and a rancorous one as that. Some two decades after New York's highest court ruled that the photos are not "sexually suggestive, provocative or pornographic" and are distributable as long as they are not included in pornographic publications, the public remains as divided as ever before on the issue. As for Garry Gross, he didn't share the spotlight created by the controversy. His name was mentioned sporadically as the Brooke Shields controversy raged on, as when the famed appropriationist Richard Prince, who photographs other people's photographs and exhibits them, dug this hoary old chestnut up again in 2007. But apart from occasional interview, Gross remained in semi-retirement. He was shunned by the society and rejected by galleries which were hesitant to court controversy by staging Gross exhibits. Never returning to celebrity photography, Garry Gross worked and died as a humble dog photographer and trainer." -- The Liberal Gun Club. Garry Gross (illustrator).…

[12] pp.; 16 x 11.5 cm.; staple bound; color; edition size unknown; offset-printed Small artist's book culminating in two infamous nude photographs of Brooke Shields, then the age of 10. One of these images became the basis of Richard Prince's 1983 work "Spiritual America." "I went back to my apartment on E.12th St. and hurriedly opened the envelope. The small publication was in fact called? 'Little Women'. And in it, contained several images of young girls made up to look older. (All of the girls were around nine, ten and dressed and styled to look around eighteen). Some of them looked like 'tarts.' I didn't really have much of a reaction paging through the book. I didn't understand why Gross would think that these kinds of images would help promote his business. (Then again I didn't know what business Gross was promoting). I turned the pages and there it was on the second to the last page. There was Brooke standing in a tub completely naked with her arms outstretched like she was Jesus on the cross? her boy body oiled and shiny, with just the tiniest bit of make-up on her cheeks and rouge on her lips. The image hit me. It was 'alive.' Where did it come from? Who was its maker? It wasn't born. It was fully formed. There was no history to the image, no future. Independent and on its own? free from any and all authorship. It was as if the 'look' on Brooke's face knew secrets I would never begin to understand. She knew. What did she know? It didn't matter. It was enough to know that this photograph knew everything." -- Richard Prince, from transcription of lecture delivered at ICP, New York, April 2, 2014, Reference : "Spiritual America : The Catalog 1983 - 1984" by Sandra Schulman, Walter Robinson, Richard Prince, Kim Fine. : Slink Productions, 2015. Very Good / Fine. Light wear along spine and rusted staples. Interior Fine, clean and unmarked.…

[12] pp.; 16 x 11.5 cm.; staple bound; color; edition size unknown; offset-printed Small artist's book culminating in two infamous nude photographs of Brooke Shields, then the age of 10. One of these images became the basis of Richard Prince's 1983 work "Spiritual America." "I went back to my apartment on E.12th St. and hurriedly opened the envelope. The small publication was in fact called? 'Little Women'. And in it, contained several images of young girls made up to look older. (All of the girls were around nine, ten and dressed and styled to look around eighteen). Some of them looked like 'tarts.' I didn't really have much of a reaction paging through the book. I didn't understand why Gross would think that these kinds of images would help promote his business. (Then again I didn't know what business Gross was promoting). I turned the pages and there it was on the second to the last page. There was Brooke standing in a tub completely naked with her arms outstretched like she was Jesus on the cross? her boy body oiled and shiny, with just the tiniest bit of make-up on her cheeks and rouge on her lips. The image hit me. It was 'alive.' Where did it come from? Who was its maker? It wasn't born. It was fully formed. There was no history to the image, no future. Independent and on its own? free from any and all authorship. It was as if the 'look' on Brooke's face knew secrets I would never begin to understand. She knew. What did she know? It didn't matter. It was enough to know that this photograph knew everything." -- Richard Prince, from transcription of lecture delivered at ICP, New York, April 2, 2014, Reference : "Spiritual America : The Catalog 1983 - 1984" by Sandra Schulman, Walter Robinson, Richard Prince, Kim Fine. : Slink Productions, 2015. Fine. Covers and contents clean and unmarked. This copy SIGNED in gold ink by Garry Gross on back cover. (c) GARRY GROSS 1981 printed in white ink via rubber stamp on back cover.…

Vintage oversize photograph of musician Lou Reed, used as the album photo design for the front cover of his critically acclaimed 1979 solo album, "The Bells." The resulting album design features a significantly cropped version of this original image, and as a result the photograph on offer has a good deal more visual information at all four borders. Garry Gross, who name is penciled on the verso of the mounting board, was a prominent fashion photographer best known for his controversial 1975 photographs of a nude ten-year-old Brooke Shields, later appropriated by artist Richard Prince for his 1983 series "Spiritual America." 15.25 x 15.5 inch image printed on 16 x 20 inch photographic paper. Print mounted on a 20 x 24 inch illustration board as originally used, with a 22 x 24 x 8 inch ply archival mat. Photograph with a diagonal crease to the far top right corner (image not affected), else Near Fine.…