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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 250 pages. Published in 2002. Landmark collection of male nudes. The photographer's most ambitious and daring collection. The first and only edition. Arena Editions' final title, many of the copies were not actually printed because the publisher was already in the process of being shuttered. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Greg Gorman and James Crump: Oversize-volume format. Green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and small photograph pasted on cover, as issued. Photographs and text by Greg Gorman. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with gilt titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Fahey/Klein Gallery Los Angeles from April 11 to May 18, 2002. Presents Greg Gorman's "Just Between Us". Page after page after page of sexually explicit nude photographs devoted to one model/muse, Greg Knudson. Those who thought this was therefore a "copycat" of Bruce Weber's "Chop Suey Club" (also devoted to one model) know by now that the similarity abruptly ended there. This is imagery that tests and breaches the fine line between erotic art photography and pornography - for it is a fine line indeed and despite what so-called artists say. The point is that Greg Gorman does not need to prove how well - how exquisitely and formally - he can photograph a male nude in a lavish studio production, as evidenced by his now-classic previous collections, notably "As I See It" (2000). Here, he lets go, almost as if disavowing his Classically-inspired studio-work, and posits the apparently still-subversive notion that this one man's sole reason for being is sexual pleasure: Having the physical beauty and natural endowment for it, showing off uninhibitedly, and sharing the "performative" experience with his viewers. The "just-between-us" intimacy between photographer and subject ends with the resulting photographs, and becomes intimacy with us, their voyeur-viewers. An absolute "must-have" title for Greg Gorman collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, dated (shortly after publication), and placed in black pen-marker on the half-title page by the photographer: "Greg Gorman June SF". The latter refers to San Francisco, where Gorman did his only other public signing aside from LA. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary erotic art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, post-publication dated, and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This was Arena Editions' final title. Many of the copies were not actually printed because the publisher was already in the process of being shuttered. Copies available online have serious flaws (because they were pored over). This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 250 duotone plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GREG GORMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1892041561. Signed by Author.…